- - Emilie Kiser Shares Christmas Eve TikTok with Husband Brady Ahead of First Holiday Without Son Trigg

Zoey Lyttle, Lizzie HymanDecember 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM

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Emilie Kiser with her husband Brady Kiser and their late son Trigg. -

On December 24, Emilie Kiser shared a “day in her life” video on social media, documenting her travels on Christmas Eve — her first holiday season since the death of her 3-year-old son, Trigg

The influencer previously pointed to Christmas as what she expected to be a particularly challenging time of the year amid her ongoing grief journey

Emilie returned to social media in September after several months offline following Trigg's fatal drowning incident; she and her husband Brady also share 10-month-old son Theodore

Emilie Kiser shared a “day in my life” Christmas Eve vlog, featuring her husband Brady, as they navigated their first holiday season without their 3-year-old son, Trigg.

In the TikTok video, Emilie films herself waking up, turning on the Christmas tree lights and getting her 10-month-old son, Teddy, out of his crib as they prepare for a family holiday road trip. Dressed in a grey sweatsuit, she shows herself packing outfits for Teddy, preparing medications in case he gets sick and making a bottle for him.

Toward the end of the video, Emilie captures Brady loading suitcases into the bed of their truck, wearing a brown sweatsuit and baseball hat — his first appearance in one of her videos since their older son’s tragic drowning in May. The comments section quickly filled with an outpouring of love for Brady, with many expressing relief and happiness at seeing him make an appearance after such a difficult time.

Emilie ends the vlog showing her “outfit of the night” as they get ready to meet her family for dinner, captioning the video: "Hope you all have a safe holiday, and as always, thank you for the love, support, and kind words. They mean the world, always❤️."

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Emilie Kiser with her husband Brady and their children Theodore and Trigg.

Nearly one week before Christmas, Emilie expressed some of her hardest wintertime revelations in what she described as a "word vomit" on her Instagram Stories. In a post shared on Friday, Dec. 19, the grieving parent began, "This holiday season has literally felt like a fog. Every single day feels heavy, long, and like I'm floating through it," adding, "And not floating in a good way. In a [dissociative] way."

She admitted that she feels "constantly 10 steps behind my present self and almost out of body," despite trying to "stay busy," feel her emotions "as they come" and spend time with loved ones.

"But obviously nothing takes away from the deep sadness I feel every day and the longing for Trigg's presence that we miss so much," she explained. Emilie said that her goal in sharing such difficult emotions was to help people and to highlight how "social media is fake, in the way that it's usually a highlight reel."

"You really only see such small snippets of people's lives and the hard parts are hard to share. Because they are heavy and take time to process," she added. "If you are struggling this holiday season, I am with you and l am sending you love as you try to navigate through the rest of this month. and then well after that."

At the beginning of the month, Emilie expressed how the popular Elf on the Shelf Christmas trend has been an unexpected trigger since Trigg's death. She took to her Instagram Stories to explain how she was “prepared” for things in her “personal life” to trigger her, “but not for what I'd see every time I opened my phone.”

"I honestly forgot today was December 1st, and that last night would kick off the Christmas wave,” she said. "Seeing so many moms doing Elf on the Shelf is giving me such painful flashbacks of memories and traditions we loved so much."

Emilie also shares son Theodore with her husband, Brady, but she noted the 10-month-old is “too young” to participate in traditions such as Elf on the Shelf.

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Emilie Kiser, husband Brady, and late son Trigg

“These are the moments where grief makes everything feel heavy and confusing,” the Arizona mom wrote. "Last December was so different, so special, and so full of Trigg. This year, and every year from now on, won't feel the same. It can still be special in its own way, but never the same.”

Kiser was on a social media hiatus for several months after Trigg's death before she returned in September. Since then, her uploads have featured a mix of standard, day-in-the-life vlog content and more honest expressions of heartbreak following the tragedy.

In November, just before Thanksgiving Day, Emilie posted an eight-minute TikTok discussing the general ways she anticipated grief affected her winter season. She admitted that "every holiday is hard" as a grieving parent, though she said Christmas would bring about a particularly difficult challenge.

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"I'm just allowing myself to feel every single feeling that comes, and if that means some of the days feel like I can bear them, I allow myself to feel that," she said in the video. "But if I need to step away or just can't do certain things on the holidays, I'm also completely okay with that."

Emilie maintained that one of her greatest motivations for speaking about grief is that hopefully her words will help those in similar positions. Emilie reiterated how, in the effort to co-exist with grief, it's "so important" to allow oneself to feel emotions and "allow yourself to really sit in those moments."

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