Every Christmas Eve since Dan and I were engaged we have spent with the Merrill side of the family. It is tradition in their family to have a big yummy dinner with everyone dressed up. We then read the story of Christ’s birth out of the scriptures and sing a myriad of Christmas songs/carols. After singing time it’s present time!!! It is always fun to see how excited the kids (and the adults of course!) get about opening all the presents. Overall it was really fun!
I like to think of making tortellini at Christmas is somewhat of a tradition in the Merrill family as well, although we don’t seem to make it every year. We make the traditional tortellini with red sauce mostly but one year we made butternut squash tortellini (that was really yummy!!!)
So here we are making tortellini:
I have to admit though that this year Cristina made most of the tortellini. We showed up a little bit later than we were planning and so she had shaped most of the army before we even got there. Dan ended up counting all of them and there were well over 200 tortellini by the time we were done. I think it was around 270ish. Yum Yum!!
And at dinner for Christmas our drink of choice is. . . ginger ale and apple juice. I swear there’s no alcohol in it although it may seem otherwise:
Even all the baby’s enjoyed all the yummy dinner!
John A. read us the Christmas story this year and even the kids listened intently.
I think Doris was most excited about the presents though!
The Terek boys all got Bioncles from Dan and I. They were very excited and Simeon couldn’t even wait to open it. He made Dan help him put together his guy before he even left grandma’s house!
After a full evening at the Merrill’s Dan and I made our way home to make cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning. Mmmmmm. . . .
