Holiday Giveaway #2
UPDATE: Winner Announced
Picture this scene with me: It’s a cold winter night. You’re curled up in front of the fire, wrapped in soft, green throw blanket. You listen as Buddy the elf explains the four main food groups, “candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.” Meanwhile, you sip on your mug of hot chocolate, dreaming of snow flakes.
Sound pretty nice? You can make it a reality with this week’s “Spread Christmas Cheer” giveaway!
In this giveaway you get some of my favorite Christmas items: “Elf” on bluray DVD, plus a green throw blanket and snowflake mug from Crate & Barrel.
I love evenings during the holidays where I can relax with a mug full of something yummy and watch one of the Christmas movies that I watch every year. And this set should arrive just in time to enjoy before Christmas day is here! So you can keep on smiling… cause smiling’s my favorite.
To win this set:
1. Leave a comment on this post sharing your favorite holiday tradition.
AND
2. Share this blog post. You can do it on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, any platform you like. Just be sure to tag The Stolen Colon or me in some way so I will be alerted when you do it. (The share buttons at the bottom of the page might help for Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest, but just tag The Stolen Colon on Facebook.)
*You must complete both items above
*You must tag The Stolen Colon and include a link to this blog post.
*I’m sorry, but I cannot ship outside the Continental U.S.
*All entries must be complete by 11:59PM on Thursday, December 12th
Enter by the end of the day on Thursday and I will announce the winner Friday afternoon. I can’t wait to hear about everyone’s traditions. So to start it off, I actually told you about my favorite tradition last year, but here’s another one of my favorite traditions:
When my husband and I had been dating a year and a half, and I was pretty sure that this was going to be “it,” I suggested that we exchange ornaments for Christmas. I usually try to find something that represents what we’ve gone through that year, such as a bulldozer the year he started working for a CAT dealership and one from the Rock ‘n’ Roll half-marathon I ran last year with Team Challenge. Now, we have ornaments documenting our life together for the past seven years! OK, your turn…
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Hands down my favorite Christmas tradition is after the boys and dad and I unwrap gifts, dad make waffles and we sit down to watch the 24 hour marathon of “The Christmas Story”. It is known by those close to me that we are exactly like the family on the show, down to the two boys, the mom and the dad. A close second is watching Rudolph and “It’s a Wonderful Life” my very favorite movie ever!!!!
December 9, 2013 at 8:32 amI don’t know how to tag or anything but wanted to wish you a happy holiday season!
Merry Christmas to Stephanie and your hubby!!!!
we have a Christmas pickle we hide on the tree. the first one to find it gets nothing…..just the privilege of saying they found it. it is still fun.
December 10, 2013 at 7:32 amMy family always hides a pickle ornament on the tree, and the person who finds it gets a special treat.
December 9, 2013 at 12:32 pmHah, I love this!
December 9, 2013 at 1:01 pmMy favorite holiday tradition is to watch all of the old Holiday classic movies like “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer” and Santa Claus is Coming to Town”, drink hot chocolate and color Christmas coloring books.
December 9, 2013 at 1:22 pmDecorating our Christmas tree is my favorite. Thanks so much.
December 9, 2013 at 2:52 pmTweeted also: https://twitter.com/peg42/status/410134744676855808
My favorite family tradition is writing in the family wish book on New Years Day.
December 9, 2013 at 9:43 pmMy favorite Christmas tradition was always waking up super early with my sisters and getting our stockings and looking through them together. We didn’t always get along but on Christmas morning my sisters were my best friends. I hope my son will feel the magic of Christmas morning.
December 9, 2013 at 11:07 pmMy favorite holiday tradition is going caroling on Christmas Eve with my family and close friends – and then coming back to our house to exchange gifts and pig out!
December 9, 2013 at 11:09 pmI shared on twitter: https://twitter.com/guettel78/status/410259500742873089
My favorite holiday tradition would have to be going around town and looking at all the lights. My daughter is five now and she sees the beauty and magic Christmas. I’m reminded what Christmas felt like when I was a young child.
December 10, 2013 at 12:13 amI love simply getting together with the family for holiday dinner and watching our favorite movies. It is a special time to watch and enjoy the kids.
December 10, 2013 at 6:38 amI have a few favorite traditions 🙂 I love opening presents with my husband every year. I know that seems cheesy and what not but it’s probably my absolute favorite. I always try to find him something really unique or something he’d never expect in a million years. Then I make him open the gifts in a certain order and I wait ‘like a kid on Christmas’ for him to open that crazy gift with this stupid grin on my face and his reaction is always the best. Haha! I love it. And we always make a special breakfast…it could be as simple as cinnamon rolls or more involved like waffles or casserole but we always do something special. And finally, my side of the family started a new tradition last year of doing Bingo. Everyone brings a few little things as prizes and the whole family sits down together and we duke it out. It’s one of the most fun things we’ve ever done. I love having everyone together, laughing and carrying on. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!!!!!!!
December 10, 2013 at 6:52 amI just started a new one with my boys this Christmas, I wrapped 25 Christmas/winter books and we open one each night to read for our bedtime story.
December 10, 2013 at 2:24 pmWe get new PJs on Christmas Eve, and wear them all day Christmas!
December 10, 2013 at 5:55 pmChristmas caroling in the neighborhood.
December 10, 2013 at 6:39 pmdecorating the tree together
December 10, 2013 at 8:41 pmWe make cookies and hot cocoa on Christmas eve and curl up together in front of the fireplace to read The Night Before Christmas before going to bed in hopes that Santa will be coming soon.
December 10, 2013 at 10:39 pmjweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com
Our tradtion is making homeade pizza on Christmas shared pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/jtwark1/stolen-colon/
December 11, 2013 at 4:57 amWe make Christmas tamales every year to give to friends and family
December 11, 2013 at 12:50 pmwe do a gift exchange and its always so funny
December 11, 2013 at 4:49 pmMy family and I love to decorate the tree together, that’s our favorite.
December 11, 2013 at 8:37 pmjofo120 at yahoo dot com
My favorite is baking dozens of Christmas cookies together and then going to the Seniors Home to deliver them on Christmas Eve. We all sing carols as we bring them room to room and I am not sure who enjoys them the most, us or them!
December 11, 2013 at 10:48 pmLaurie Emerson
We decorate the tree together as a family while having hot cocoa 🙂
December 12, 2013 at 12:33 amWhen my family gets together on Christmas we host a little family talent show.
December 12, 2013 at 1:22 amShared: https://twitter.com/BBrittBrat1398/status/411018020648001537
We go out on Christmas Eve & look at the lights. Santa comes by while we’re gone (a super speedy super sneaky extra stop) to leave PJ’s, a book, game, movie or whatever to make the time pass faster and the elves set up a sausage cheese & cracker snack.
December 12, 2013 at 9:45 amWe go out to eat christmas eve pizza every year
December 12, 2013 at 11:26 amMy favorite tradition is having a Christmas meal with the whole family every year!
December 12, 2013 at 12:13 pmI shared. 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/itsjustme62613/posts/627620007294778
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we like to ride around christmas eve and look at all the lights
December 12, 2013 at 12:37 pmwe started doing the elf on the shelf last year & i love seeing my son’s face every morning when he finds it! we also go to both of our parents’ houses on christmas eve & day, then come home & watch movies. 🙂
December 12, 2013 at 3:52 pmshared on https://plus.google.com/105503682498353030798 & https://www.facebook.com/krissy.westcott
how do you tag on pinterest? i couldn’t figure it out.
never mind! i figured it out! 🙂 http://www.pinterest.com/pin/234187249346964193/
December 12, 2013 at 4:00 pmWe always open one present Christmas Eve (the kids always beg just one more) but we always stick to it and make them wait until Christmas morning for the rest, so they can have wonderful dreams all night.
December 12, 2013 at 6:55 pmmy favorite tradition is making lefsa with my family
December 12, 2013 at 9:07 pmi love to go to church on Christmas eve
December 12, 2013 at 9:10 pmWe have lots of Christmas traditions. First we cut a tree and decorate that. Then we buy gifts. Then we do lots of baking and make candy. Then on Christmas we all open one gift from under the tree and on Christmas morning we open the rest. Then usually we have a ham dinner and then we watch a Christmas movie in the afternoon. I saw the Elf movie on TV last year and would love a copy of that. Thanks for having this contest.
December 12, 2013 at 9:35 pmMy favorite holiday tradition is getting together with my kids and grandkids on Christmas eve for Dinner and A Christmas movie!
December 12, 2013 at 10:00 pmThanks for the giveaway…the weekend before Xmas the extended family (and friends) gather for a Christmas cookie / Gingerbread House / Cake / Pie baking marathon; the kids help mix & measure ingredients, the parents supervise, and everyone enjoys hot cider with the baking “rejects’ i.e. burnt, broken, misshapen baked goods…we save the good stuff for Christmas & New Year’s
December 12, 2013 at 10:44 pmOn Christmas Eve, Santa comes early and leaves new pajamas for everyone to wear while we sleep and wait for Santa to leave presents on Christmas morning.
December 12, 2013 at 11:10 pmMy favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree while sipping eggnog and watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
December 12, 2013 at 11:41 pmDecorating the Christmas tree is my favorite tradition. I love to collect ornaments so it’s fun to look at them and be reminded when I got them.
December 12, 2013 at 11:53 pm