The Pierre Family 12 Days of Christmas Holiday Recap

The Pierre Family 12 Days of Christmas was a major success. With this being the 2nd year from us starting this new tradition, I had to make it more fun, creative and interesting. Though we are still dealing with COVID, unlike last year we were able to do more outside the home that I was unable to include the prior year such as ice skating. To make it interesting and cute, I created and sent out animated announcements for what we’d be doing over the course of the holidays. Last year I did a slow reveal by surprising my family each morning with the activity for the day, but this year I just presented it all in one. Below you’ll see the actual list of activities we did this year and as you’ll notice we spread the 12 days out due to prior obligations that wouldn’t allow us to schedule our activities consecutively within the first week.

In addition, I’ve attached pictures and videos from all our activities and overall holiday experience. Hope this gives you and your family some cute and fun ideas to start a new tradition yourself or add to your already existing holiday traditions. After all, the holidays are about spending time with family and making new memories, so why not start with some of these.

Day 1: Ice Skating

This was my first time going ice skating and it was such a fun yet slightly scary experience initially.

My sister, best friend Jada and I before we took on the icy rink. The weather was amazing this day.

Me on the ice roboting my was through lol.

Day 2: Holiday TikTok in our ugly sweaters

My sister and I aren’t the best background dancers, but we tried lol.

Day 3: Random Acts of Kindness

On this day we were able to bless several families with gift cards to get food from their local fast food restaurants.

Day 4: Snow globe Making

The setup for our snow globe making activity.

The finished product. Our snow globes were perfect!

This was separate from the 12 days of Christmas, but it was an Ugly Sweater social event for young professionals that I attended with my friends that was pretty cool.

Day 5: Wrap Gifts

On this day we took it upon ourselves to wrap gifts we purchased on our own time just to get the tree filled up in preparation for the big day.

Day 6: Hot chocolate bar

Here my sister elevated our hot chocolate bar to a fancy charcuterie styled hot chocolate bar which I loved. And no we didn’t eat all this or mix everything in lol.

#Cheers from the Hot Chocolate Bar!

Day 7: Christmas Lights Show

Day 8: Brunch & Vision Board Making

Day 9: Holiday Movie Night

This wasn’t the traditional holiday movie where you see Santa, the love stories and fluff (I love all that), but it was a great movie that really showed the true reason for the season which I loved.

Day 10: Holiday Bake-Off

Our holiday bake-off was a new activity I added this year which I loved because it gave each of us a chance to showcase our skills. My younger sister Flo made a churro cheesecake. My older sister Jeannie made an Oreo peppermint pudding. I made a s’mores brownie. Flo was the overall winner, I won for overall execution and Jeannie won for best holiday presentation. Social media was the judge lol.

Day 11: Christmas Eve (Christmas Jammies & Fun)

Once again our holiday photos were taken in our home from a mock set or lack there of lol. We literally took these photos in our family room with the Christmas tree and a few added gifts on an iPhone and voilà #Magic. Our jammies this year was from Old Navy (cute right lol).

Day 12: Christmas Day (Brunch)

Christmas Day we had a late start. My family and I slept in for the first time in ever lol. We got up by 10 started exchanging gifts then my sister and I tagged teamed on brunch. This was a “simple” yet filling plate of goodness. Oh and btw my shrimp and grits recipe in on the blog (check previous post).