My Favorite Holiday

My family and I love celebrating many holidays.  My favorite holiday to celebrate is Christmas. When my family celebrates Christmas we are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.   We have two Christmas trees. A big one and a smaller one. They are decorated with beautiful ornaments. On top of the bigger one we put an angel on it.  On the smaller one we put a star on the top. Before Christmas Eve my parents fill my family’s stockings. In the morning my siblings and I wake up our parents.  We run downstairs and get ready to open our stockings. There are many little presents in them. When we have finished opening our stockings we stay in our pajamas and we go to Ihop.  It’s a place where we get to eat pancakes. Sometimes people from my family like my aunt, uncle, cousins, and grandparents come to my house for Christmas. Every year we write the names of the six people in my family on little papers. Each person draws a name and that is who they get a present for. This year my cousins are doing that with us. Some special memories I have is that since I love hippopotamuses I got a new ornament that sings I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. Every year my siblings and I sleep under the Christmas tree. Christmas is my favorite time of the year.