How to show emotions?

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Hello everyone. For all of my life I never really could show my emotions very well. For example, during Christmas, when my brother and sister would get gifts they really wanted, they would just be really excited, maybe scream, and stuff like that. If I got a gift I really wanted, I would just say something like "Thanks" in a monotonous tone, even though I would be very excited on the inside. Another example is I recently went on a cruise, and when I got back, my parents asked me "So how was your vacation?". I just responded with "It was good" in a monotonous tone, even though I really liked it. I just never feel any urge to go beyond that, because it seems embarrassing and pointless. All of this leads to people thinking I'm not grateful for the stuff they do for me, even though that is not true. Please help!

There's something what always annoys me when I watch those TV programmes during which you must call and give a good answer and if you do it, you win something. Having won you are expected to show excitement in your voice. You are expected to start to shout hooray or something like that like a little kid who can't control emotions

Usually I don't react much to gifts, and sometimes I react the wrong way (when I opened up the PS2 my gf got me when they first came out I got upset with her for spending so much money) but one time my parents got me an electronic model of the enterprise from TNG and I went nuts.

Well you can express them through art, music, literature... You can express them verbally or physically... Or you can just bottle them up and let them fester in to some kind of chaotic mess inside your mind.

im an art person and i find writing and painting a good form of expression. i may seem "cold" but im really not. i can cry, laugh, smile, get angry, and depressed. it seems that people always ask me if im pissed off or sad. my mom keeps saying i put on a "dog face". like i should have a big grin glued to my face all the time. so im not totally void of emotion.

Carry emotion cards, and flash them when needed :p

If I feel I haven't reacted appropriately or strongly enough to something then I send a thank you or a sorry card afterwards (usually a free ecard eg from Hallmark website). Sometimes the next day I will bring the topic up again after I had time to think about it and process the information and say 'by the way thankyou/sorry/you looked nice yesterday etc.......'

I never could do the 'jumping for joy' thing and when I tried I sound stupid and false.
I hate the makeover and reality tv progs when the people at the end are supposed to be surprised and start showing a huge reaction - I especially hate it on US shows as that is even more OTT...

I feel that sometimes... I just don't feel the need to sound anything else than that when it comes to a simple thanks...