By: Elizabeth Gutierrez My Family Traditions By: Elizabeth Gutierrez

Every Wednesday we eat a pasta dinner together just like my grandparents did in Italy. Being together is very important to my family.

Travel Another family tradition is traveling to a new place in the summer. Here are my kids on our family trip to Boston. Together we learned about The Freedom Trail and ate delicious lobster rolls together.

Christmas traditions in my house. From my mom we have a German tradition of hiding a pickle ornament on our Christmas tree. Whoever finds this ornament gets an extra treat on Christmas.

Christmas On Christmas my entire family gathers at my house to eat a traditional Italian dinner. We share a pasta dinner and open presents. This is a time we celebrate how important family is by giving special gifts to each other. The house is decorated with a green evergreen tree and whoever finds the pickle ornament hidden in the tree gets a small treat.

Cousins in front of the Christmas tree.

Traditions... It is tradition in my family to take a picture of the cousins in front of the tree every year. This is fun to look back on and see how much the children grow and change.