Country Stars Share Christmas Plans, Memories and Traditions
Merry Christmas!
A few of Country music’s hottest stars recently shared their Christmas plans, memories and traditions with fans. Find out what Blake Shelton, Faith Hill, Eric Church, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean and many more have to say about the Christmas holiday…
Christmas Plans…
“I really just want to spend time with family and friends and relax. I’ll see what my family’s doing and what Mike’s family doing, and we’ll figure it out.” – Carrie Underwood
“Christmas is going to be good. My wife and I, we finally said we’re not loading the boys up on a tour bus and driving ‘em down to Georgia and all that. We’re spending Christmas in Nashville and Santa’s coming to the house. We’ve got two boys that they understand Santa, and they’re ready for them to get there. Now, we just gotta get ol’ Santa down the chimney.” – Luke Bryan
“I’m on the road so much during the year, so what I look forward to the most is being home with my family,” says Jason Aldean, who is looking forwarding to doing “things like taking the girls to the mall to shop or to see Santa Claus.”
“I’m actually gonna get to go home and relax, spend time with friends and family, and I’m really, really lookin’ forward to it ’cause I’ve been working a lot, and that’s great, but it’ll be good to kind of decompress and get to share some of the experiences throughout my year with my family.” – Casey James
“I think for Christmas I would love just to stay home. We have the wonderful gift of gettin’ to travel this beautiful country nearly every day, definitely every week. So really, our vacation in the music industry is bein’ home. I would be completely content and happy just to kick my feet up and catch up with my folks. That’s all I want for Christmas.” – Jerrod Niemann
“We always travel to North Carolina for Christmas. We always do Christmas morning and breakfast up there with my mom and dad. It will be great to bring Boone into that environment. It will be the first time he has really gotten to do that and know that he’s there. I’m just looking forward to having a little time off, coming into next year. Then I need to try and figure out what’s next.” – Eric Church
“We always eat, go drive around and look at Christmas lights, and then go to candlelight service. I’m looking forward to me, mom and dad and my sister spending some time together. During the holidays, we like to sit on the couch and watch the Dog Whisperer and catch up on TV shows while drinking coffee. Just hanging out and laying low. I’m really looking forward to that this year.” – Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley
“We also go to candlelight service and go home and do a Christmas Eve dinner. We open up a few gifts that night. I’ve got a younger sister who just turned 12, so it’s still fun to go to bed early and wait for Santa Claus to come and all that stuff. I look forward to going home this year for Christmas.” – Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard
“I don’t know what we’re going to do this year, but I have family everywhere. I have family down in Valdosta, Ga., I’ve got family in Knoxville, and I’ve got family in Nashville. I’ve always been a very traveling kid on the holidays. We don’t really have any traditions because I’m always in a different spot every year. We will travel a bunch and spend a few days in Valdosta and spend a few days in Knoxville, but spend a majority of the time in Nashville.” – Thomas Rhett
Christmas Memories…
“My favorite Christmas memory probably just happened last year. You always have all the different things that happen, whether it’s a gift or whatever, but the last Christmas I spent with my dad was actually in a hospital room and everybody had all their Christmases going on and for whatever reason everybody had been in the hospital room with my dad all day and then people went on to go do their Christmases at their homes and I decided, ‘I’m just gonna stay here with my dad’ and me and my dad sat in that hospital room together and laughed all night. We watched a marathon of ‘Dumbest Stuff on Wheels’ together on Christmas Eve this past year and man, I wouldn’t trade that time with him for anything. That’s something I’ll never forget.” – Blake Shelton
“The funniest thing I can always remember about Christmastime is my older brother Pake. When we were kids at home, he’d always be the first one to jump out of bed and run down the hall with his underwear on, and he’d say, ‘If y’all don’t hurry up and get up and get in here, I’m going to open all the presents by myself.’ It was a standing rule that we’d all have to be in there before anyone could open a present. But I can still see Pake running down the hall.”-Reba
“One of my favorite Christmas memories is when my brother and I used to wake up my parents really, really, really early in the morning and open up all the presents.” – Jana Kramer
“I loved growing up in a place where I could have a White Christmas…snowball fights, sledding, building snowmen, making snow cream (just add cool whip and vanilla to snow and mix in a bowl!) …My one wish for Christmas this year is for another Illinois White Christmas.” – Brett Eldredge
“[I’m] definitely a real Christmas tree guy. We went to Christmas Tree Lane — this place in Missouri — out in the middle of nowhere every year and cut down a Christmas tree. And I wanted the biggest Christmas tree, and I was all…every bit of 90 pounds, but I wanted to saw the thing down myself, and it never happened but, that’s one of the things that one of the things that people don’t do a whole lot of anymore, but I’m a big real Christmas tree guy. I proudly endorse real pine…or spruce or cedar, whatever they’re made of.” – Tyler Farr
Christmas Traditions…
“I think one of the things that I love to do the most during the holiday season is when we finally get the time to pull everything out and decorate the house and there’s always that moment when we’re all together and we’re opening up the boxes and we talk about the things that we’re setting out. Whether it be something that the kids have made from years past or a favorite item that we use to decorate the house. It always surprises me because there are the things that the girls will say every year is their favorite and then they’ll come up with something new and I’ll think to myself, ‘ I didn’t even realize that you noticed that’ or ‘You’ve never mentioned it before’ so to me it’s always kind of a surprise and it just is a special, special time with our family.” – Faith Hill
“Christmas is pretty traditional. We don’t let anybody open any presents until Christmas morning, after Santa Claus comes. We don’t let them get up on their own and take off, you know, everybody has to wait and kind of get situated, and maybe have a cup of coffee, and then we start all of the regular Christmas morning activities, opening presents, taking pictures and video. We have music going, you know, I try to keep Christmas music going in the background. I like to turn that on before I let them come down to the tree and everything.” -Alan Jackson
“I think if I have any holiday traditions now it is just to make sure that I get back to Louisiana to see all my family. Because you know everybody’s there and we love to just hang out and that’s kind of just a tradition of ours, and it’s kind of understood that three days before and three days after Christmas or New Year or Thanksgiving, we just go down to Louisiana and spend time there and just hang out. No agenda. No list of things to do. We just go to see family, and visit and catch up, which is always, always needed.” – Hunter Hayes
“Every Christmas in Minnesota we end up around my grandma’s piano, her playing the piano, and me playing the fiddle, and we play Christmas songs and old-time fiddle tunes. It’s not necessarily an official “tradition” for our family, but always seems to end up that way. I love it.” – THE FARM’s Nick Hoffman
