Christmas Traditions

Where I live, we only celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve - we open all of our presents on 24 December. But nevertheless I want to share my family's Christmas traditions with you :)

The morning is pretty relaxed. We take our Christmas tree, put it inside the living room and decorate it. We usually have a small tree so we like to put it onto a small table. My cat gets really lazy in the winter time, so he likes to sleep under the tree - it's right next to the heater ^.^
After the Christmas tree is all finished, we have our traditional Christmas soup made by my grandmother for lunch. Unfortunately I don't like all of the ingredients, so I just have a normal noodle soup (I should mention: I love noodles!^^). Then we take all of our presents and put them under the tree.
The rest of the afternoon is really relaxed: We normally watch movies and stuff. At around six o'clock we normally have dinner. Every year we eat something different, but usually we have two different meals: One based on meat and the other one is vegetarian - my brother and I are veggies.
Afterwards we all have to wait, while my dad goes into the living room and looks if the Christ Child has already been here - in truth he just lights up the candles on the tree. Then we all go into the living room, sit down and sing some Christmas songs. After that we finally swap our gifts.
We normally stay up late and talk. The next morning we sleep really long and then go out for lunch with the hole family.

These are my family's traditions. What about your's? :)