Thomas Rhett’s house always seems to be lively and bustling with people, no matter what time of the year it is, but especially around the holidays. Last year they celebrated Christmas with at least enough people to build a four-layer human pyramid in matching pajamas. Thomas explains, “I think growin’ up, Lauren’s house that she grew up in was always the house that kids went over to. Thanksgiving they always had people over and they always had the biggest ugly sweater Christmas parties in the world. So, even since we got married, we have continued to have this party, and it grows and grows and grows and grows.”

Obviously, with Covid-19, they won’t be able to host their usual ugly Christmas sweater party, but they’re coming up with ways to still carry on the tradition while staying safe during the pandemic because Thomas says, “We just love having people in our house. I mean there’s literally so many people in our house on a daily basis, whether it’s our friends or our family, our house seems to be the central location where people want to hang out, and we always seem to hang out in the kitchen for some reason.”

In fact, at their ugly Christmas sweater party last year, Thomas says, “We had 60-some-odd people just packed into our kitchen for a Christmas party. And so I would say our house is kind of the central location for a hangout.”

If you missed Thomas and Lauren hosting this year’s CMA Country Christmas special on ABC, you can stream it on demand on Hulu for a limited time. The CMA also posted all of the individual performances on their YouTube channel.

Listen for Thomas Rhett’s new single “What’s Your Country Song” on Bloomington-Normal’s #1 Country, B104.

Whose house did you gather at around Christmastime growing up?