Most people open their gifts together with their families, some open on Christmas Eve. Families have big dinners in the middle of the day. Most stores are closed although some drugstores stay open. Newscasters always update us on where Santa is flying. That's usually on the 7 o'clock news.
Churches have midnight masses and some people go to that.
People decorate their houses with lights-some like colored lights, some little white lights. The bushes are decorated too. Some people have a little electric candle in each window and that looks pretty too. Wreaths are hung on the doors and I've even seen cars with wreaths on the grill in front of the car. In Arizona where they don't have big trees, they decorate the cactus and the palm trees.