Going out and chopping our Christmas tree! A full day of family fun!

Feliz Navidad!!!!!

We’re starting a new tradition of spending a day during the holidays at a luxury hotel. We can all be together, shop, dine, and enjoy the spectacular holiday decorations.

Merry christmas!!!

Making and decorating Christmas sugar cookies with the family. Also candlelight church service on Christmas Eve – celebrating the reason for the season!

playing Santa Claus!

Celebrating the birth of Jesus at Hie Birthday party Christmas Eve!!

Baking a Christmas cake and someone finds a plastic baby inside!

I like when we choose someone to play Santa and hand out the gifts from under the tree… and the food of course!

My favorite Christmas Tradition was listening to my Grpandpa read the Christmas story from the bible every Christmas eve then eating Cioppino as a family!! =)

Merry Christmas!

New favorite tradition? Elf on the Shelf, he keeps the boys in check

Our favorite Christmas tradition is having all the family get together on Christmas Eve & stayimg up until midnight to open presents.

My favorite Christmas traditions are decorating the tree with the kids and driving around town to look at the Christmas lights

Going to my in-laws’ property and cutting down a tree.

*Giving*

Our favorite tradition is baking German pastries from scratch using the recipes taught by my mother and then sharing with family and friends.

Going around and looking at lights and doing Christmas countdowns with the kids.

Merry Christmas. The Mercantile always looks great.

I love attending the annual performance of the Nutcracker put on by the Mid-Columbia Ballet. It is a fantastic show each year.

Frosting sugar cookies with the kids and delivering them to friends!

Decorating gingerbread houses with the family

I love decorating the Christmas tree and making gifts for family and friends.

Merry Christmas! I loved doing exchange gifts with my siblings when we were little now that I have my own im carrying it over to my kids!

Oranges and Peanuts! it’s a must.

Each year, we build a new outdoor Christmas decoration and have our picture taken with it. Then each of us get into the sleigh with the santa, elf, or reindeer hat and get updated pictures. Then it’s inside for homemade cookies and hot chocolate.

Driving through the city looking at the wonderful displays and Watching the little kids opening presents.

I love teaching my children the true meaning of Christmas. We spend time with toys for tots handing out presents or we go to the senior center and help with dishing out the food and hand out gifts to the people/children who are in need of a warm plate and a smile. My Children have some of their greatest Christmas memories by seeing the eyes of another light up with Gods love!!!

Driving around to look at the lights on Christmas Eve.

My faviorte tradition is driving to the tree farm and cutting our tree down, this was where my husband took me on our first date!

My faviorte family tradition is watching my wife decorate the tree!

Our whole family usually goes out for a snowmobiling ride at our lake cabin in Idaho on Christmas day. Then we come back and have a great Christmas dinner.

The magical feeling in the air is the best!! And watching all the Christmas movies and listening to the great Christmas music.

We Love to just drive around and look for lights and decorations! Best time of the year

The first year my wife and I dated I found myself laid off and broke around Christmas. On Dec. 24th I was walking through Albertsons in Walla Walla (the only store open) with $5.00 and some change in my pocket trying to figure out what I could get her for a present. BUT, I had listened to what she liked! I knew she liked troll dolls, and I spoted two for .50 cents each. Then I saw a cookie tin for a dollar. Winds of a brainstorm were begining to blow! I looked down the isle and saw a display for Hersheys Kisses, HER FAVORITE CANDY! I bought what I could of the candy, got the trolls and the tin. At home I filled the tin with Kisses, and put the trolls in the tin also. Then I wrote a note saying Hugs and Kisses were all these trolls and I could afford this year. I wrapped the present the best I could and gave it to her Christmas morning. SHE LOVED IT! And every year since I have always given a new troll doll and some Hersheys Kisses as one of her presents. We started our own tradition! Oh, by the way, we will celabrate out 17th weeding anniversary next July. Merry Christmas Everyone.

Going to church on Christmas Eve and coming home and eating a big meal and opening presents with the family!

For the last ten years now, every Christmas Eve, our family gets together & orders take-away from Chinese Gardens in Pasco, set up the spread at home and after we eat, we open presents.

Merry Christmas!

My favorite tradition is a fairly new one, my family and I get together with the adults and kiddos and go shopping for things to go into Shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. With lists in hand and kiddos in tow, the kids pick out the stuff for the boxes. Back to the house to put the boxes together, while eating cookies and listening to Christmas music!

My Favorite tradition is putting up a small branch decorated in remembrance of when it was just me and my father and we didn’t have much to decorate with or to gift each other. He was gone late and I cut a branch off of our tree outside and put small plastic decorations on it that I got from the dollar store. When he got home, he woke me and thanked me with a hug. Been doing that ‘Tree’ ever since.

My favorite Christmas tradtion is Christmas Eve at my grandma’s house. The family gathers, and opens presents then eats snack foods until it’s time to go home to sleep so Santa can come.

I would love to win this basket!

watching the grandbabies open their gifts and then having family dinner

We love to put together a gingerbread house and put up the tree reminiscing over ornaments

Love getting the dogs dressed up in their Christmas duds and taking a “family” photo.

I love doing the advent calendar with my kids!

to spend time with family and friends.

Stockings….My parents did them for us as children and we still carry it on. We still get stockings as adults.

Watching National Lampoons Christmas vacation together as a family.

Fav Christmas tradition is the “buffet and gifts” we do that eve.

Prime rib!

driving around to see all the beautiful lights, and then prayers for our freedom and thankful for what we have…

We go as a family to get our tree and make homemade chocolate pudding while we decorate!

My favorite Christmas tradition has involved my work with our church youth group. Every year we adopt a family for Christmas. Teaching our youth the importance of humble giving through the collection and preparation of gifts, and the delivery to the family. The kids are blown away by the excitment they see in the family when we deliver the gifts. They have a new understanding that blessings are received in both giving and receiving, and every time are humbled by seeing such great need. It is a life changing experience every year. As I shop for gifts each year, the memories of these visits to the very poor of our community, helps me to keep in perspective the true meaning of Christmas. God Bless You this Christmas!

Remembering the reason for the season, and thanking all those who are away from their loved ones at Christmas defending our country.

Ever since my grandma got a waffle iron for Christmas, we make homemade waffles for breakfast on Christmas morning!

Staying in PJ’s on Christmas morning and opening presents together.

We always bundle up to go to Clover Island and watch the lighted boat parade! Then it’s off to Burger Ranch for a burger & a candy cane shake! Furn every year!

community candlelight service with several churches coming together for carols and scriptures

Well my family tradition is simple but its our thing. Every x-mas eve we allow the kids to open one gift; usually a small one. We prepare x-mas dinner, make sugar cookies with sparkles, and watch the all time x-mas movie;” A Christmas Story.” LOL we love that movie. Looking forward to it this year!

Love to travel to the mountains to choose a christmas tree; then a little sledding, warm campfire and hot cocoa…..(yum!)

Drinking my Nana’s home made egg nog with the family!

This is the best place to find gifts for family and friends and something for myself!!

My twins are just now 4 so we started a new tradition, we make cookies the week leading up to chrismas then on christmas eve we get to cuddle and open one small gift.

Christmas is so much fun now that they are old enough to understand what it is all about.

We enjoy driving around the tri-cities looking at all the beautiful Christmas lights.

Love spending time with the family Christmas Eve. Reinacting the nativity is always something to look forward to

Holidays are special and times to spend with family and friends. Opportunities!

Watching magical holiday movies with my wife.

Going to the tree farm and getting our Christmas tree!!

The most amazing place I’ve ever been! I just moved here and visited the Mercantile about a month ago.

My favorite tradition for Christmas is: watching others be blessed, to see their eyes light up, to experience the joy, the expressions they feel on this blessed day we celebrate the birth of our savior.

Note: When I came to the Mercantile for the first time; I noticed the manager/owner (whomever it was), walking around the Mercantile in prayer, that’s all I needed to see to know thats where I’ll return.

Thank you Country Mercantile for standing for more than just your product!!!

Our favorite tradition is putting up the christmas tree with all the ornaments that are past and present, some from our kids made in grad school like a christmas bears cut out of paper and decorated to the macarroni strings to the ornaments we gave each other through the years from grandparents to the family. each ornament has such meaning and are with us even if they aren’t year after year.