Blending traditions

It's crazy to think this is our second Christmas as a blended family. Last year was a pretty interesting one, mainly because we all got food poising from something we ate and ended up puking all Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. It really was a fun time, but putting that aside we started a few Christmas traditions we really loved. Of course we did keep some that Jason and I had as children, but it was kind of hard blending all of them. I never really realized how many traditions my family had even the little things that may seem stupid to other people, like needing to have spaghetti for dinner on Christmas Eve or getting pajamas for our first gift every year. It was those little things that made us question, what traditions should we keep? Since Jason is Italian he had no issue eating spaghetti for dinner, however for the first gift we kind of butted heads. Jason's birthday is Christmas day, his family has always gone above and beyond with making sure it was HIS day. This included opening gifts(all of them!) on Christmas Eve. Last year we did it that way and we'll be doing it that way again this year since I have to work, but I will get my way one year! We decided to ditch most of our old traditions and start mostly new ones, except the major traditions like leaving Santa cookies and getting a new ornament every year. However we do have a bit of a spin on all of the traditions we have since we have five million kids. Growing up my brother and I each left a cookie for Santa, well Santa can't eat ten cookies at once. This is why we decided to leave Santa some other things as well. In our house he kind of gets spoiled, he gets a full meal and chap-stick(because it's cold and his lips get chapped!). It's adorable watching them decided what Santa should eat that day and hearing them talk about what book and movie he will be bringing them. Our kids know our traditions and they also know we're still figuring out our traditions! So they put up with our craziness, hopefully next year we have our traditions locked in and we can actually classify them as "traditions". Do you guys have any fun traditions? Let us know, maybe we'll adopt them!