Carrie Underwood recently gave churchgoers a surprise, when she sang a few songs as part of Rolling Hills Community Church’s Christmas program, with fans capturing videos of her unexpected, unannounced performance.

This isn’t Underwood’s first time to share her talents with a local church. Earlier this year, the 41-year-old sang “Goodness of God” as part of another church’s worship service.

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Underwood loves everything about the holidays, especially all of the traditions that began when she was a child, and she now implements with her two children.

“For me growing up, Christmas was always just comforting,’ Underwood says. “We always had the same stockings and the same tree and the same decorations, and we would always decorate the weekend right after Thanksgiving. Flip the Christmas switch, put the tree up. Now that we’re adults and have kids, we can go to the Christmas tree farm and we can walk around, and we can pick out which one and ask Isaiah, ‘Which one do you think?’ Just things like that, making those memories. It’s just a joyful time of year.”

Underwood grew up with an artificial tree, but now that she has her own family, she enjoys using a real tree instead.

“Now in our own home, we do the real tree thing, and we kind of try to make that a little bit of a tradition,” says the singer. “We go and we pick it out. The boys have some say in which one we get, and they feel some ownership, and we all decorate it together and of course, have Christmas music playing in the house.

“I make cookies that were my husband’s grandmother’s, that my kids call Gigi,” she adds. “It’s her recipe, her ginger snap cookies, and we make those. It’s super sweet. Isaiah loves to make Gigi’s cookies, because he still remembers her a little bit. So, it’s something special we get to do.”

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Underwood is, by her own admission, a big fan of the holidays. She even released an album, My Gift, to help celebrate the season in 2020.

“It’s really hard naming a Christmas album,” Underwood said when the record was released. “I tried to think about the songs that were in it. I started thinking about individual songs. One of my favorites is ‘Little Drummer Boy.’ It’s one of my favorites because the sentiment behind it is just so honest. There’s a little boy, and of course I think of my five-year-old Isaiah. They’re bringing gifts to baby Jesus. He doesn’t have anything; he’s poor. So he says, ‘I know. I’m gonna play my drum for Him. That’s what I have.’

“To me, that’s a gift that was given to him by God, his love of music,” she continued. “I imagine he was a good little drummer. I love music; I love singing. That is my personal little gift that I get to do, that I’m so blessed to do. I want to use that gift, and I want to give it back to Jesus. That’s why I landed on My Gift as an album title.”

Find My Gift and all of Underwood’s music and tour dates at CarrieUnderwoodOfficial.com.