Melding of Christmas Traditions

Doug and I are in the process of melding together our families' different Christmas traditions. Doug's family being the big contributor in this effort. My family always enjoys the holidays and we have a blast, but we don't necessarily have too many consistent traditions. We do fun things, but we basically "wing it" every year. Some of my family's traditions are: Mexican food for dinner on Christmas day and setting up the tree the last possible day (usually the Monday before Christmas). Some of Doug's family traditions are: decorating sugar cookies, creating and decorating gingerbread houses/mangers with graham crackers, Meat, cheese, and crackers by candlelight on Christmas Eve for dinner. We try to combine the two as much as humanly possible. Just recently, my family tried one of Doug's family's traditions by decorating graham cracker mangers/houses. I made a fun collage in Picasa 3 to show the results! :)