When it comes to Christmas, the guys in Rascal Flatts are just like other families with their own traditions and ways of celebrating with their families. All of the guys share the tradition of dressing in matching pajamas with their families on Christmas Eve. Gary laughs and says, “With our names on ‘em, like we don’t know who lives in the house.”
Joe Don Rooney and his family have another unique tradition he’s trying to carry on from his childhood. He says, “We used to have Mexican food on Christmas Eve. My mama always wanted to have Mexican food. We try to do that now, and well, I’d have Mexican food any day of the week, but Christmas Eve is always kind of fun to do it to keep that tradition alive.”
For Jay DeMarcus and his family, Christmas Eve is all about pizza and lights. He says, We used to pile in the car every Christmas Eve and go downtown and look at the lights and then we’d come back home and order pizza on Christmas Eve and open one gift. And that’s kind of, we still carry that over. We order pizza and they open one gift.”
Rascal Flatts just released their first-ever Christmas album this year, called The Greatest Gift of All, and they’re hoping a lot of families will make their album part of their annual holiday traditions.
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Rascal Flatts – Christmas traditions :35
Gary LeVox – “I think ours are the same aren’t they?”
Joe Don Rooney – “Well the pajamas thing’s always been one, you know everybody wearing pajamas and matching ‘em.”
Gary – “With our names on ‘em, like we don’t know who lives in the house.”
Joe Don – “We used to have Mexican food on Christmas Eve. My mama always wanted to have Mexican food. We try to do that now, and well, I’d have Mexican food any day of the week, but Christmas Eve is always kind of fun to do it to keep that tradition alive.”
Jay DeMarcus – “We used to pile in the car every Christmas Eve and go downtown and look at the lights and then we’d come back home and order pizza on Christmas Eve and open one gift. And that’s kind of, we still carry that over. We order pizza and they open one gift.”