Christmas Eve you must sprikle reindeer food all over the yard so the reindeer can see your house. (dry Quaker oats with LOTS of glitter mixed in.) Then you must leave milk and cookies for Santa. Santa always responds with a nice thank you note. The year after Santa's writing starting looking like Daddy's Santa got a "pocket computer and printer" and started leaving type written notes.
Early Christmas morning the kids open gifts. (Adults don't get gifts here.) Late morning my parents come over and the kids open more gifts.
We have a table loaded down with snackies and everyone munchies as the see fit during the day.