well for thanksgiving (when I am back home) we go to my gandmas and eat THEN go to my dads side of the family.. it mostly at my aunts house. eat and watch FOOT BALL lol
Here, I just make me and my husband a small thanksgiving dinner, unless we have people over.. then watch the snow fall while drinking coffie... unless we have guys over we watch food ball lol.
For X-mas (back home) me and my brother (my mom and dad helped when we where smaller) would put up the tree about 2 weeks before. THen on x-mas morning me and my brother get up REALLY early, just like when we where kids

and wake my parents up. cant brake tradition lol
then we ALL go to the living room and open up the gife and play with whatever we got while mom is cooking up breakfest.
Then we go to my grandmas. Eat, play, talk and cath up on the durt lol and open gift... then we help clean up and OFF to my dads side of the family.. its mostly at my aunts... to eat, talk and make fun of each other while we open gifts. ALSO while watching foot ball DUH lol Then about 9 or so we are off back home scent my parets always have to work the next day, unless its on a weekend..
Here, When we get up, I start cooking xman "lunch" while I am cooking breakfest for us lol.. then we open are gift and eat. after that I make hot coco and we make a snow man and woman lol depending how much snow we have.