12th grade:
“Every Christmas Eve, my family goes to this nice steak house called Texas de Brazil.”
-Kaden Cordell
“Eating with my family and playing holiday games.”
-Joe Gutierrez
“Going to see Christmas lights and watching Christian movies”
-Christian Stevenson
“I love to spend time with my family during December! We usually go on Christmas trips to wherever!”
-Tyler Griffith
“My full family Christmas with all my cousins, aunts, and uncles.”
-JT Morris
“Enjoy Christmas break.”
-Jacob Whitlock
“Drinking hot chocolate, buying and wrapping gifts, watching Christmas movies, and looking at the Christmas tree!”
-Wesley Stinemetze
“Going to see Christmas lights and buy Christmas gifts and make tamales and pozole with my family”
-Daisy Morantes
11th grade
“Boxing Day.”
-Madeline Younger
“Boxing Day.”
-Henry Bowman
9th grade
“Playing in the snow.”
-Jaden Crawford
“My favorite holiday is Christmas, and my favorite tradition during the month of December is being able to see all the Christmas lights during the night, I love and enjoy seeing them. I also like how we put up our Christmas tree. During Christmas, we always eat our favorite traditional food like pozole, tamales, or menudo.”
-Lilliam Sandoval
“Going to my family’s house and celebrating Christmas.”
-Braxtin Day
8th grade
“My favorite holiday tradition I like to do with my family every Christmas is to watch a Christmas movie each day of December!”
-Leah Mecham
“Drinking hot cocoa.”
-Patience Ervin
“When I get to open my presents and enjoy spending time with my mom’s side and my dad’s side.”
-Cristiano
“Open 1 present on Christmas Eve.”
-Brayden Snyder
“I like about Christmas because my mom always will do tamales, and they are good.”
-Maynor Amperez
“Sleeping in on Christmas break.”
-Donavin Monforton
“Secret Santa.”
-Christian Enriquez
“Making cookies with my family.”
-Bryson Trejo
“Watching Christmas movies every night.”
-Riley Littlejohn
“To watch a lot of Christmas movies, and going to see Christmas lights around town.”
-Rylee Markwrdt
“My favorite holidays in December is New Years, and Christmas.”
-Annabelle Gurrusquieta
“My favorite is New Years.”
-Abrie
“My favorite holiday is Christmas, and my favorite tradition would be secret Santa.”
-Lailah Stevenson
“Opening gifts with my family and eating Christmas dinner.”
-Dulce Maria Duron
“Eating a tin of popcorn while watching Christmas movies with my family, and then going to both of my Grandma’s Christmases on Christmas Eve in our pjs.”
-Brenna Maddux
“My favorite Christmas tradition is waking up early to open presents and eat food.”
-Daisy Bartley
“Christmas.”
-Isaias Aguilar
“I celebrate Christmas and New Years. My mom makes turkey, mashed potatoes, and green beans for Christmas. After dinner my family opens presents.”
-Chelsea Lopez
“My favorite Christmas tradition is doing secret Santa with my family.”
-Maria Guadalupe Martinez
“My favorite holiday is Christmas and my Christmas traditions are that we stay up on the 24th till 12:00 am, and then we eat, and then open our presents either that night or the next morning on the 25th.”
-Heidy Morales
“Getting out of school.”
-Madison Innis
“Christmas to see my family.”
-Derek Owens
“Opening gifts and having fun with family.”
-Joe Nalley
“I like the Christmas trees.”
-Angel Ordonez Ramos
“To watch Christmas movies and eat the holiday food.”
-Jozlynn Snipes
“Watching Christmas movies and opening advent calendars going to my grandparents house and parties and trips.”
-Morgan Oliver
“Me and my family gather together and have a big feast, and then I go home and I open presents.”
-Aiden Rodriguez
“Baking cookies with my mom.”
-John Richardson
“Being around family.”
-Reed Tidwell
“My favorite Christmas tradition is helping my parents make it special for my little siblings.”
-Aidan Godsey
“My favorite tradition is baking cookies.”
-Ethan Owen
“Sleep.”
-Christian Sutton
“Christmas cookies.”
-Elena Mares
“My favorite Christmas tradition is to drink hot cocoa and watch Christmas movies with my family.”
-Jaterrian Porter
“Watching movies or spending time with friends.”
-Aubri Harrison
“Wearing an ugly sweater.”
-Heaven
“Me and my family open gifts around the tree and visit family on Christmas. We don’t really do anything special besides that.”
-Serenity Mullens
“Simply going around in the snow :)”
-Keith Long
7th grade
“Mine are being with my family.”
-Kylan Kelsey
“Dressing with pjs on Christmas.”
-Alexander Ortega
“My favorite Christmas tradition is getting gifts on Christmas day.”
-Aniya Mcentyre
“My favorite holiday tradition is going sledding with cousins and friends.”
-Austin Torres
“My favorite holiday during December is of course Christmas!! My favorite tradition is when my entire family gathers for Christmas Eve and does a little secret between each other.”
-Alejandra Sifuentes
“Opening presents and having ice cream the morning of Christmas.”
-Rileigh Smith
“Christmas.”
-Treven Harrison
“My favorite holiday/Christmas traditions during the month of December are the presents you get, and the time you get to spend with family during such a joyful time.”
-Bayshawn
“My favorite holiday is Christmas, and I celebrate by watching movies and drinking hot chocolate.”
-Stephen Crooks
“My favorite holiday is Christmas because I get to spend time with my family and eat with my family, and I get to give presents to my family members and build gingerbread houses.”
-Giselle Yanez
“My favorite holiday is Christmas.”
-Johnathan
“My favorite holiday is Christmas and my favorite tradition is putting up the Christmas lights and tree.”
-Bryson Reeves
“A couple of my favorite Christmas traditions are listening to Christmas music and watching movies. I think my favorite thing of all is shopping for everyone’s gifts.”
-Daniella Risinger
“On Christmas Eve open only one present.”
-Julio
“My favorite Christmas tradition is when we all sit on the floor and we exchange gifts.”
-Axel Gomez
“My favorite tradition is to go to my Abuela’s house and eat.”
-Abraham
“My favorite Christmas tradition is when we open presents.”
-Miguel Guzman
“Spend time with family, play football, open presents, and last but not least, tell Jesus happy birthday and sing and pray.”
-Dawson Mears
“My favorite Christmas traditions are opening presents and being with my family.”
-Summer Baker
“My favorite tradition of Christmas is opening presents.”
-Breyden Massey
“My favorite Christmas traditions during the month of December is opening my Christmas presents.”
-Angelow Perez
“My favorite tradition of Christmas is opening presents and hanging out with family.”
-Brensen
“My favorite traditions are when me and my family spend time together and we go see my other family.”
-Addyson Brown
“One of my favorite Christmas traditions is every year on Christmas eve, all of my family gets together and hangs out. We eat, play games, and my favorite part is when we do secret Santa, it’s really fun and we swap gifts when we can and it’s really a fun thing we like to do.”
-Nikaya West
“My favorite Christmas traditions are to spend time with family and put up a tree.”
-Jose Hernandez
“Christmas because I don’t know any better any jolly time there is besides Christmas.”
-Matthew Brown
“My favorite holiday tradition is White Elephant. It’s a game we play with my mom’s side of the family.”
-Gabriel Cundall
“Spending time with family.”
-Elizabeth Searle
“Well my Christmas tradition is sometimes we do this thing called Ramadan, and I will usually go to my aunt’s house, but Ramadan is where we don’t eat or drink until the end of Ramadan, so those are my traditions for Christmas.”
-Aya Saad
“My favorite holiday is Halloween and a tradition we do in December is that we all wear matching pajamas or match with our loved one like example my Tia and Tio.”
-Malika Saad
“Make hot cocoa and cookies.”
-Jamie Rhodes
“Presents”
-Victoria Cortez
“Noche Buena it’s like when you go house to house and get cookies almost like Halloween, but in Christmas in Mexico”
-Gabriel Mata
“My favorite traditions to do are spending time with family and playing football with my family. And eating pozole and tamales and menudo.”
-Miguel Esqueda
“My favorite Holiday/Christmas tradition is hanging out with my family and building snowmen and that is my favorite Holiday/Christmas thing to do during the month of December.”
-Benjamin Hajdarevic
“My favorite Christmas tradition is exchanging gifts.”
-Marvin
“My favorite tradition is when my family gets together and just spend time with each other and we all cook together have fun all night and just have a really good time together.”
-Abby Morado
“Getting presents.”
-Mi’kayla Govea
“My favorite traditions during the month of December is when we all gather around as a family and play game watch movies and do a little Christmas exchange and eat food.”
-Anna Marie Baxter
6th grade
“Decorating the Christmas tree.”
-Joyce McBride
“I like going to my grandma’s and eating tamales.”
-Brayden Miller
“My favorite thing to do on Christmas is celebrate what Jesus did and love on Jesus and learn about what he did.”
-Konnor Mears
“Spending time with my family and friends.”
-Brayleigh Hurt
“Mistletoe, Christmas, gingerbread house.”
-Stephani Jimenez
“My favorite Christmas tradition that I do is that I go and cut down a Christmas tree to put in my living room, and I decorate the tree with my family.”
-Lily Chabot
“Eating with my dad’s family.”
-Nolan Smith
“Christmas.”
-Tommy
“Christmas breakfast with my family.”
-Nash Cox
“Decorating the house.”
-Joey Gonzales
“Seeing family.”
-Landry Bassett
“Opening presents.”
-Amethyst Mungia
“Make a gingerbread house, put up the Christmas tree.”
-Isabella Ponce
“I like Christmas to spend time with family and celebrating God’s birthday.”
-Eileen
“My favorite tradition of Christmas is opening presents.”
-Caleb Rendon
“My family celebrates on the 24th of December and opens gifts at 12 a.m.”
-Jaylin Corona
“My favorite time is when I eat with my family.”
-Omar
“Christmas.”
-Serenity Mozon
“My family’s birthday, because they’re back to back.”
-Adalyn Strona
“Christmas present, celebrate Jesus.”
-Clara Fragoso
“I like to eat with my family because I like eating.”
-Luna Esqueda
“Happy New Year.”
-Gael
“There is nothing special, we just give gifts.”
-Jodi Rodriguez
“My favorite tradition is going to my cousin Holly’s house on Christmas Eve and exchanging gifts in the form of a game (kind of like musical chairs but you don’t know what present you’re getting), eating delicious food that everyone brings, and then running around outside of Holly’s ridiculously large property.”
-Scarlett Johnsson
“My favorite Christmas traditions are making tamales, drink hot chocolate, and watching Christmas movies.”
-Lidia Ordonez
“Eat.”
-Eli Gillaspie
“Christmas break, open presents.”
-Christian Leal