What is your favorite Christmas memory?

I have asked friends and family two questions. They could answer both or just one. I will post them as they come in. OH, this is fun:

1. What is your favorite Christmas Memory?

2. What does Christmas mean to you?

*A Christmas memory of my own....This picture was taken two years ago. We were at Grandmomma Bentley's on Christmas Eve and Sister and Anthony weren't there. Me, Matt, and Will took this picture to tell them we missed them and Merry Christmas!*

What Christmas means to Matt and his favorite memories:

Matt, age 31
Christmas to me is being with my family...

*it's laying with my granddad bentley on the couch watching everyone open presents right before he died of cancer a few days later...

*it's riding n the car with my brother and sisters looking in the air for rudolph....

*it's dressing up like a wise man at Maw Maw and Paw Paws...

*its eating grandma b's dressing and then go watching her dance for us...

*it's opening all the presents mom bought for us to make us happy even though we didn't have enough money...

*it's daddy falling asleep on the couch christmas morning cause he spent all night putting together my GI JOEs.....

*it's grandma and granddad k's all day on saturday and them always giving exactly what you wanted...but didn't know it....

*it's eating my aunt hazel's peanut brittle and chicken and dumplins....

*it's watching macy and dylan so excited to see what they have and then hug you til you are about to pop...

*it's spending it with the one that you have waited 31 years to marry and loving her more than life!

*it's about spending time in church, singing christmas songs, and reading the Christmas story on Christmas eve....

Macy Huckaby's Favorite Christmas memory and what Christmas means to her:

Macy, age 8

i think christmas is mostly about giving my favorite christmas memory is getting a tree!

One of Katie's Favorite Christmas memory is:

Katie, age 28

"Sister, remember how we used to wait all day on Christmas Eve until it was time to go pick up grandmamma Bentley to go to dinner? We were so excited for 4:00. After dinner, we would head to her sweet little apartment on Green street, listening to Christmas music all the way. Into her living room we would go. Me and you, always on the couch with Grandmamma. Matt and Will sacked out on the floor, and mama and daddy in their respective chairs. We would open our gifts one at a time to see our surprises, that weren't so much surprises, b/c we always picked them out. And then we would all sit around, not really talking about anything in particular, just spending good quality time with one another. I remember riding home to our house afterwards, so excited for the gifts we would open when we got there! Every Christmas Eve, Matt and Will stayed in their wing of the house, and you made the journey upstairs to sleep with me on mine. Remember how some Christmas eve's we would stay up the entire night, convincing each other that we heard Santa and his sleigh outside. and remember how we would sneak out my door and reach our head as far down the steeps as we could see while laying on our bellies on the top stair? Those were the days!"

Kevin's Favorite Christmas memory:

Kevin, age 36

My favorite memory is short, having a tree this year.

*kevin is in process of coming up with another memory but this one was pretty sweet:)*