It is Christmas time at the Roberts House, but not all is holly jolly—Barbie and Ken cannot find the perfect gift for each other for Christmas, Stacie and Skipper take drastic measures to get a good gift for each other, and the whole family has to prevent Chelsea from finding and opening the presents before Christmas morning.
Just before a group chemistry project presentation, Barbie falls ill with a cold. However, she does not want to take a day off and tries to figure out some way to attend the presentation without letting her project partners down. Meanwhile, Trey fakes an illness to play hooky, but runs into trouble when the principal catches him out of school.
To gain more popularity in school, Tammy decides to imitate Barbie. When it goes too far, Barbie begins to feel deprived of her individuality. Meanwhile, Trey struggles to find a birthday gift for his mother, while Stacie and Chelsea agree to babysit a fashionable macaw named Bella, and end up losing her. Their problems intersect when Bella lands up at the Reardons' home, and Trey's mother, mistaking it for Trey's gift, falls in love with her. How will the Roberts sisters retrieve her?
When the Roberts go on their annual camping trip, Barbie makes brownies that no one can resist, but forbids anyone from eating them until the second night around the campfire, per family tradition. When someone eats the entire batch the night before though, the Roberts clan band together to figure out "whodunit".