TRADITION:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CyZmIs5T8Q"]YouTube- Xmas Album[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpJvP9qMRC4"]YouTube- THE VENTURES - Jingle Bells[/ame]
and the most BEAUTIFUL...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAngoXIRZ5E"]YouTube- The Ventures Silver Bells[/ame]
This is what my Dad would put on Christmas morning and all us kids knew we could then come downstairs and begin the ritual of getting ready to unwrap our gifts from each other... (fixing cocoa, having sweet rolls, etc...)
(It was either The Ventures Christmas or Elvis Christmas morning!)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUyuGFoiWJ0"]YouTube- Elvis Presley[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugebUQzdemE"]YouTube- Elvis & The Ornaments - Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me[/ame]
*These are engrained in my brain. In fact, I stayed with my parents last year - and asked my 80 year old father to wake me up this way X-Mas morning, to "be a kid again". And he did. He is so SWEET!!!!!!!! I am so lucky to still have both my parents.