Comments on: We asked our Panthers about their favorite holiday memories, and this is what they said:

By: Bailey Baca

Bailey Baca — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:58:49 +0000

My favorite memory about christmas time is getting to hang around my family. Something about christmas gets my family closer every time. It is probably the fact that we listen to music and watch out favorite christmas movies together. We love to decorate the tree and order pizza.

By: Tarianna Ruiz

Tarianna Ruiz — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:58:23 +0000

My favorite Christmas was when we got a really deep snow and we made a nine foot tall snowman with a mohawk. It was funny because i actually had to climb onto the truck to put the mohawk on him. Because he was so tall we named him Mr. string-bean. One of my absolute favorite Christmas traditions is hanging our tree upside down from the roof!!

By: Tarianna Ruiz

Tarianna Ruiz — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:46:59 +0000

i learned not to eat them the hard way meaning i ate one

By: MyAyzia Lewis

MyAyzia Lewis — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:38:26 +0000

In reply to MyAyzia Lewis. Sorry I meant 19 people.

By: T

Wed, 26 Dec 2018 16:42:50 +0000

In reply to MyAyzia Lewis. Yeah I have a pretty big family, it was super fun.

By: Kyleigh

Kyleigh — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:21:19 +0000

My family doesn’t necessarily do “traditions” I guess, but we do the normal stuff like putting up the tree and decorations. My siblings and I were born in Alaska so during Christmas time it was cold and white. On Christmas morning we would go outside and see who could roll the biggest snowball. One time my cousin and I rolled one so big it was taller than both of us. A five foot snowball is pretty big. Another thing my cousin and I did during Christmas time was take out the snow machines and race them on the frozen lake. This was my favorite part, because I love the feeling of putting on all the gear and getting snow in your face. You feel like one big marshmallow. Then when we moved here to Arizona when I was 12 and the first Christmas we had here was so weird. My little sister (6 at the time) asked, “How are we gonna have Christmas here?” Then she panicked and said, “Wait! Do people even have Christmas here?” It was pretty funny, but it was weird without all the snow and cold weather. People who are native here would be in heavy coats and gloves while my family would be wearing shorts around town. Now I’m 16 and we’ve been living here almost five years, so my siblings have kind of gotten used to it and we do have one tradition here that we do every year. We ring the bell for the Salvation Army in December with my whole family. My Dad plays Christmas music and we hand out candy canes to people. It really is a lot of fun.

By: MyAyzia Lewis

MyAyzia Lewis — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:08:38 +0000

In reply to T. That is a big family, I bet if you put ALL of my family together it would be a extremely big family including people from my mom's side, Nana's side, grandpas side, dads side grandma's side and grandpa's side + more.

By: MyAyzia Lewis

MyAyzia Lewis — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:06:24 +0000

Every Christmas and Christmas Eve Everyone goes to one persons house, including my mother, father, sisters, brothers, uncle, aunts, cousins, my Nana, and of course me. A total of 12 kids + 8 adults = 20 people. We always decorate these ornaments made at of salt, water, and flour. They look like cookies, but a warning in advance, DON’T EAT THEM, they are extremely gross. We do this on Christmas Eve and eat gumbo for dinner, go home and return the next morning to hang the ornaments, open gifts, and eat more gumbo. This year we are adding a twist to it, and if it works we will do it every year. Instead of going home Christmas Eve night, everyone’ll camp over. Since my home is the biggest, (mainly because we have the biggest part of my family, containing have of the family 10, including my uncle, dad, mom, three little sisters, three little brothers, and the oldest daughter, child me), we almost always have celebrated at my house except for in the first years that my family and house were small we would the go to my Nana’s but there is no longer enough room for every body in there. I often get to invite a few friends over to celebrate because I have no cousins my age, and trust me when I tell you it can get pretty annoying and boring hanging around 11 kids ages 11-1 year and 6 months. Of coarse the oldest 11 is my brother and the youngest 1.6 is my sister. I on the other hand I just turned 13 in early November. Well, that is my favorite and only family Christmas/ Christmas eve. Thanks for hearing it.

By: T

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:45:22 +0000

My favorite holiday memory is every year, my family and I meet up at my Grandmas house, and we and all of my cousins, aunts and uncles(A total number, of 79 people) have a huge feast. Then we do a gift exchange, and watch the Grinch, until 9:00pm, and then go home, go to bed and wait for “Santa” to come.