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*GIVEAWAY* All I Want For Christmas is a……Tattoo? #OneDayKids
Christmas has been a little late in coming to the van Mil house this year. I am normally the first in line at the tree lot on opening day, and blasting the Christmas music as soon as the jack-o-lanterns have decomposed are put away, but this year it snuck up on me. I’m slowly catching up; plans have been made for the tree, chocolate letters have been bought, there are a few presents hiding around the house, and I made these super cute Christmas videos to share with friends and family using the OneDay App. You can even play fun trivia games with them. For example, in this video, see if you can guess my 20 month old’s favourite word!
OneDay is an instant movie maker app that makes it simple, fun and easy to create short movies of your child’s life! It was so simple that my 6-year-old quickly took over (with some minor reading help from me), and now I have a budding dictator director on my hands!
Their fun story sets include topics for babies, toddlers, kids and adults as well as some rotating themed ideas like Thanksgiving, Halloween and – of course – Christmas! Preserving precious memories is as easy as recording video clips answering their question sets and pressing done! You can re-record segments you don’t like, skip questions you don’t want and when you are ready, the app automatically stitches the videos together and adds music to make a special memory that you can share with all your loved ones. Best of all, you can look back on these treasured moments long after your Christmas tattoos have faded and stretched (watch the video).
Thanks to OneDay, and a fantastic group of bloggers, not only can you create your own holiday hilarity, but you can also win a $150 Visa Gift Card while you’re at it! The giveaway is open to the US and Canada, and you can enter as many times as rafflecopter allows. Good luck, have fun and PLEASE share all your festive films and questionable tattoos with me!
All on the table disclaimer: While I was compensated for this post, all opinions are completely honest and totally my own and you know I would never share anything less than superbly stellar with all my fave readers.
Such sweet videos! My most treasured memories of Christmas are Christmas mornings – as a child and now as a parent. Being a kid on Christmas is pretty great, but HAVING kids on Christmas is even better! Such a magical time 🙂
It’s so true, and we are lucky enough to do it twice with Sinterklaas visiting on “Dutch Christmas” at the beginning of the month 🙂
Nice videos! What a super app – I love it!
Thanks Carin, can’t wait to see yours!
I’m still working on it, but we put popcorn strings on the tree, that was pretty fun:)
That does sound fun! I’ve always wanted to try it but I suspect most of it would get eaten in our house…..
We don’t really have a tradition yet, but we really like going to see lights in the neighbourhood, and spending time with friends.
My girls are in awe of Christmas lights – we have some pretty spectacular set ups in our area!
I don’t really have traditions. We will always do a gingerbread house and I love doing that with my little one. Cookie baking is huge and something we enjoy .
We love baking too!
The whole family gets together on Christmas Eve and has a big pot-luck dinner!
Awesome! what would Christmas be without family and food?
My most treasured Christmas memory was sleeping in my brothers room on Christmas Eve and whoever was the first person to wake up, woke up the other two. Usually it would be 5am when we all woke up 🙂 Then we would go bug mom and dad till they got out of bed so we could open our presents 🙂
Sounds very familiar! Our house was the same growing up, although my parents were early risers so they were often already up 🙂
I would have to say its christmas eve when we get all the kids together and build gingerbread houses!
Sounds fun! Our gingerbread houses usually end up mostly eaten before they’re even built!
Watching all the family’s favorite Christmas movies
That’ a big one in our house too! What are your favourites?
Christmas eve is seafood night and we all open one gift!
Ooh, I may need to start that tradition – we love seafood!
family reunion on Christmas eve
I would love one of those for Christmas myself this year. Is your family far?
Our Christmas eve party! Friends, family, good food, Christmas movies and a visit from Santa for the kids!
Awesome! Did my invitation get lost in the mail 😉
Christmas Eve has been the same for over 25 years now! We all head out for Japanese food, then go for a drive following the Holiday Lights Tour and then drive home along the ocean front! It makes for a great Christmas Eve!
That sounds wonderful! I feel all your holiday cheer just reading it!
Making our all-edible Christmas tree. Strings of popcorn and cranberry, decorated sugar cookies wrapped in plastic, popcorn balls, candy canes, bags of gold coins, and more! It was fun, and we would sneak taste treats when nobody was looking.
Oh my goodness this is the best idea EVER!! Do you have photos? Instructions? Wanna make one for me?? 🙂
no traditions just a nice turkey dinner
Sounds like a great tradition to me!
Baking Christmas cookies with my daughter, as I used to do with my mother.
So sweet! I love traditions that pass down generations
Stringing popcorn to be used as garland on the Christmas tree
I’ve never tried that and have always wanted to. Any tips?
My favorite has to be opening one present on Christmas eve.
Oooh, I love that one too!!
Going to see the festival of Northern Lights after we eat Christmas dinner.
That sounds amazing! Definitely putting it on my bucket list
Christmas eve we always have appetizers for dinner. Christmas morning we open our stocking while having coffee, then the gifts and then sit down to a family breakfast. Then the afternoon is spend getting the turkey dinner ready. We keep the tradition the same every year!
Stockings are always my favourite! …..and coffee 😉
We kick off our celebrations with going to the Santa Claus parade and then decorate the tree.
Sounds like our weekend this weekend. So much fun!
Making gingerbread houses with the kids of all ages
Gingerbread houses are popular in our house too!
Baking cookies is a tradition I love
Me too! What kind of cookies do you make?
going to find a Christmas tree to cut down and decorate!
I love the smell of cutting down a Christmas tree!
With our immediate family our treasured family Christmas traditions is celebrating St. Nicholas Day Dec. 6th, where our kids get their stockings.
We celebrate Sinterklaas on the same day, he comes and fills our wooden shoes with all sorts of yummy treats!
Every Christmas eve since I was a child, we have a pajama party and sing christmas carols as well as all the sisters make Christmas morning wifesaver for the big days Christmas. These are all cherished traditions that I hope continue for many more generations.
That sounds so special!
Having an assortment of fresh bakery pastries & coffee on Christmas morning. Our grandma used to bring them for breakfast every Christmas day. She has passed on, but we carry on that tradition like she is still there with us.
That’s so awesome that you are carrying on the tradition in memory of your grandma! This is my first Christmas without my Dad and I know it will be a tough one.
We spend time playing street hockey into the night on christmas eve! Than indulge in hot chocolate & food. 🙂
One of my favourites! For some reason I always ended up in net…..
EAting breakfast all together with the family 🙂
Yum! Any favourite recipes?
I just love spending time with family i only see a few times a year.
Us too! Do you have to travel far?
Playing games with the family.
That’s a favourite in our house too! Which ones do you play?
Ice skating on christmas eve!
Perfect! Do you go indoor or out?
A Big Chrustmas day Pot Luck Brunch Before Presents a Family Hockey Game for the annual cup then a Huge Turkey dinner feast
I didn’t know anyone else did Family Hockey Games! Awesome!!
The decorating of the house for christmas.
I’m slowly getting better at that! We have our Christmas tree – that counts right?
Going and cutting down the tree every year!
One of my favourites too! Thanks for reading 🙂
Favorite holiday tradition – Dec 1st – unveil “Advent Chocolate Calendar”. Use to pin to the wall one calendar – Santa wants one now too *CHUCKLE*
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Love Advent calendars! I agree, it’s about time there were some ones for the grownups in our house too 🙂
Our annual tree trimming party…we look forward to it every year.
Awesome! How early do you put up your tree?
Our most treasured holiday tradition is having everyone in the extended family over for Christmas Lunch and playing games like family feud after
Sounds like a perfect Christmas afternoon!
Baking cookies!
We love that too 🙂
For our family it would be “Turkey Soup Day”…..Dec. 26 the kids all come back over for Turkey Soup and turkey sandwiches. Good times!
I love that idea!!
Going to the Christmas Eve service.
One of my favourites too!
Making cookies for all my family!
Aren’t they lucky?!
Making a “crostata” with my mom… I’m not even sure I spelled that right but they are darn good, and I love getting together with her to make it every year
That does sound good, what goes in it?
My dad always gets king shrimp and frys them up for us and serves along with cocktail sauce while we open gifts! It’s a splurge we all love!
Yum! That sounds delicious 🙂
One Christmas gift on christmas eve for the boys, just like my Dad did for me growing up.
Thats great! Christmas eve gifts are a big favourite on the list!
Decorating the Christmas Tree . . . the ornaments are precious reminders of special people or things as well as places we have travelled!
That is so special! Each year at the beginning of December, Sinterklaas brings a new, special ornament for each family member to put on the tree. Makes me miss my Christmas tree at my parents, growing up
Letting my girls opening one gift on Christmas eve.
We do the same – it seems to be a popular tradition!
Spending Christmas eve at my Grandparent’s house and giving all of the little ones a present to open before heading home (always PJ’s that they change into before leaving so they can hop right in bed from the car)
That’s great! I’d love to do that kind of tradition
Taking a day and baking goodies. It has been a tradition since I was a child and some great memories with my grandmother.
I love traditions that are carried over from generation to generation
baking cookies together
We love that too 🙂
One of my fave traditions is taking a carriage ride through the park to see all the lights!
That sounds amazing! Where do you do that?
We make Christmas crackers on Christmas Eve and then open them at dinner on Christmas Day.
Fun! I’ve never tried to make my own crackers – I’ll definitely be looking into that!
Our most treasured family holiday tradition would have to be waking up super early and opening presents on Christmas day!
Us too!
Opening gifts on Christmas Eve so we can all sleep in on Christmas 🙂
We don’t sleep in – Christmas or any other day of the year 🙂
Baking dessert together
Yum!
Family and friends getting together after opening our gifts Christmas Eve.
I love that too!
Opening the gifts together on Christmas morning 🙂
Definitely high on our list too 🙂
we started elf on the shelf and advent calendar
I haven’t gotten into elf on the shelf yet – I would forget most of the time!
I love getting new Pyjamas from Santa (AKA Grandma) every Christmas Eve!
Thats awesome!
It has always been a tradition to share a nice family meal with my Aunts, Uncles, and cousins during the holidays. When I was younger, my aunt used to invite us over to her house for a homemade meal. Now that she’s older, we tend to go out to eat more during the holidays. I can’t wait for the day when I get to return the favor and invite my relatives over for dinner- just as soon as I finish school, pay off all my tuition, and get my own place! Happy holidays everyone!
I love big family traditions! Happy Holidays to you too!!
Our most treasured is telling each other what we are appreciative of no matter how big or small
Thats a great one! Will definitely have to try 🙂
We make the gingerbread house together.
Big favourite in our house too
The Christmas Eve Parties – The whole group of family, extended family and friends would drop in at some point of Christmas eve
Love it!
our tradition is driving around and looking at Christmas lights
That’s a great one!
My most treasured is going to my grandparents for Christmas eve dinner, then when we returned home Santa had come to our house and we opened our presents.
Most treasured Xmas tradition is reading the Night before christmas with my family around on Christmas eve.