Christmas with The Blietschaus

We had an amazing Christmas Break filled with family, friends, and fun!

To start things off we went down to Utah on the 23rd and partied with my family. When we arrived we had our traditional Christmas Eve German feast (a day early) for dinner. I seriously look forward to it every single year and have had it for as long as I can remember. It's always pretty much the same:

• German Potato Salad (The Germans do something to it to make it different and amazing!)
• German Gerkins- Pickles (One of my most favorite things in the whole world!)
• Rotkohl- German Red Cabbage made with bacon and apples
• Wurtschen- German Hot dogs (But, oh so much better than a hot dog!)
• Blietschau Beer- apple juice and sprite or ginger ale
• Rolls and sometimes jello (Nothing German about those...)

We had our German feast a day early so my cousin Katie and her cute family could join us. It was so much fun getting together with them and their cute little kids. It felt like the good old days at Oma and Opa's. I wish I would have taken a picture of everyone and our meal so I could show you all it's goodness and glory.

Later that night we opened up our family gifts, since Nathan and I wouldn't be around Christmas Eve night. We gave my family The Big Bang Theory Trivia Game, which was great because they ended up getting the entire series. We all had a lot of fun playing it together... Nathan and I will need to watch a lot more before we play again though...

On Christmas Eve I woke up and made the family french toast for breakfast. We just relaxed and enjoyed the day together. Then we headed to Salt Lake to eat at the Spaghetti Factory. While we were down there we also walked around Temple Square and City Creek. I love the beautiful lights and the atmosphere of it all. Then it was time to say goodbye and head off to Nathan's side of the family.