WEBVTT 00:04.240 --> 00:05.240 it's 00:05.240 --> 00:10.720 a 00:10.750 --> 00:13.750 good thing , happy holidays , 00:17.040 --> 00:20.060 yo it's an easy script , 00:20.840 --> 00:22.690 happy holiday 00:25.240 --> 00:27.640 christmas morning , you know sleeping 00:28.030 --> 00:31.050 and then you know you wake up santa 00:31.050 --> 00:33.272 comes , you open your presents and then 00:33.272 --> 00:36.510 um you just kind of you know just spend 00:36.510 --> 00:37.510 the day , 00:39.790 --> 00:42.690 okay , so it's a long story but I'll 00:42.690 --> 00:45.800 make it less long so you know , since 00:45.800 --> 00:47.911 we were a kid , well as long as I can 00:47.911 --> 00:50.180 remember , my , my mother would always 00:50.180 --> 00:52.650 make us get together , we watched some 00:52.660 --> 00:55.790 holiday related movie uh and she said 00:55.790 --> 00:57.901 we had to make cookies for santa , we 00:57.901 --> 01:00.123 wouldn't get gifts . So uh that's where 01:00.123 --> 01:02.179 I learned how to bake , but I always 01:02.179 --> 01:04.290 know how to bake cookies , but that's 01:04.290 --> 01:04.010 where I learned how to bake the cookies , 01:04.010 --> 01:06.400 we sit down bake our cookies , watch 01:06.400 --> 01:08.400 whatever movie we want to watch for 01:08.400 --> 01:11.320 that evening and uh you know when I was 01:11.320 --> 01:14.060 a kid , I was a little silly um and 01:14.060 --> 01:16.282 even especially as a teenager I thought 01:16.282 --> 01:19.250 so but looking back now I can , it's so 01:19.250 --> 01:21.361 important to me that I continue to do 01:21.361 --> 01:23.528 it to this day with my own family , so 01:23.528 --> 01:25.639 that's that's the tradition I'm gonna 01:25.639 --> 01:27.861 keep on . Hopefully my kids will do the 01:27.861 --> 01:30.028 same thing . Well my family is back in 01:30.028 --> 01:32.028 New Jersey , so typically I'll have 01:32.028 --> 01:34.083 their home and I will go to my mom's 01:34.083 --> 01:36.306 house and decorate the tree and all her 01:36.306 --> 01:39.320 grandkids will help her decorate it , 01:39.320 --> 01:41.542 set everything up and we like to listen 01:41.542 --> 01:43.600 to christmas music while we go ahead 01:43.600 --> 01:46.080 and do that , That was awesome and then 01:46.090 --> 01:48.201 the I think the greatest part is that 01:48.340 --> 01:51.410 um , my siblings and I , my mom still 01:51.410 --> 01:53.410 has our christmas ornaments that we 01:53.410 --> 01:55.780 made in school . So we have like really 01:55.780 --> 01:58.002 old pictures and stuff that's painted . 01:58.002 --> 02:01.790 So it's a lot of originals christmas 02:01.790 --> 02:04.012 morning is hoping the kids don't get up 02:04.012 --> 02:06.068 before the parents and go downstairs 02:06.068 --> 02:08.068 and destroy all the presents . Um , 02:08.068 --> 02:09.901 it's , you know , get the family 02:09.901 --> 02:11.901 together , get around the christmas 02:11.901 --> 02:13.957 tree , take a few photos to remember 02:13.957 --> 02:16.123 the day and then let the kids go at it 02:16.123 --> 02:17.957 and have the family enjoying the 02:17.957 --> 02:20.234 festivities . I hopefully can sleep in . 02:20.234 --> 02:22.346 So as long as that happens and I have 02:22.346 --> 02:24.568 some coffee in the morning after that , 02:24.568 --> 02:26.401 we'll open up some presents . My 02:26.401 --> 02:28.401 parents normally come over and then 02:28.401 --> 02:30.568 we'll just do a big brunch with all of 02:30.568 --> 02:32.623 us on christmas morning , a bunch of 02:32.623 --> 02:34.568 mayhem . Um , my son is usually up 02:34.568 --> 02:36.870 first followed by me followed by the 02:36.870 --> 02:40.550 wife and we unwrap presents when we had 02:40.550 --> 02:42.328 the dog , the dog would eat the 02:42.328 --> 02:44.494 wrapping paper . I'm not sure what the 02:44.494 --> 02:46.880 cats will do this year , but it's a lot 02:46.880 --> 02:49.047 of fun And even though my son a little 02:49.047 --> 02:51.180 bit older and still , you know , a 02:51.190 --> 02:53.190 wonderful time to be in the house , 02:53.340 --> 02:55.750 very nice breakfast , drink coffee and 02:55.750 --> 02:57.917 then that's all done by 10 o'clock and 02:57.917 --> 02:59.861 then we have the rest of the day , 02:59.861 --> 03:01.972 which is that christmas Day christmas 03:01.972 --> 03:04.194 Eve pretty quiet , try to keep the kids 03:04.194 --> 03:06.420 away wrapping gifts and then christmas 03:06.420 --> 03:08.730 day , It is hectic , very hectic , 03:08.740 --> 03:11.860 opening gifts , kids laughing and just 03:11.860 --> 03:14.500 enjoying family and eating . So I have 03:14.500 --> 03:16.660 a 10 year old and a soon to be seven 03:16.660 --> 03:19.590 year old . And christmas Eve obviously 03:19.590 --> 03:23.310 is very exciting for , for the big 03:23.320 --> 03:25.830 visit that night . So it's always fun 03:25.830 --> 03:28.110 trying to get the kids calm down and 03:28.120 --> 03:30.030 and put to bed and then christmas 03:30.030 --> 03:33.350 morning is is chaos as usual . It's an 03:33.360 --> 03:35.600 awesome chaos , but there's something 03:35.600 --> 03:37.767 awesome about seeing that gleam in a , 03:37.767 --> 03:39.822 in a , in your Children's eyes where 03:39.822 --> 03:42.044 it's just happy . So it's , it's a good 03:42.044 --> 03:44.540 time , happy holidays , Capital 03:44.540 --> 03:48.360 Guardians .