He watches his kids grow up through their silly, but beautiful family tradition.

We've all heard the expression "Happy as a kid on Christmas morning!" before, but this one dad decided to bottle up as many Christmas mornings with his kids as possible and put together a beautiful time-lapse video of them coming down the stairs to see what Santa Claus had left them under the tree.

Check out 25 years worth of footage from this family below:

Damnit, that music though... gets me every time!

Seriously, that was so awesome. I'm sure the kids thought it was cheesy at the time, but I have no doubt they'll cherish these memories and share this video and maybe start a similar tradition with their own families.

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