Annual Christmas Ornaments

When Ross and I were engaged we started a Christmas tradition with Christmas ornaments. We decided that each year we would get an ornament for our tree that summed up or represented something big in our lives from that year. We both liked this idea and just this afternoon I picked up our ornament for 2013. I have a picture below of the ornaments we have so far.

 

 

2009:  Top left, engagement ring for our engagement that year.
2010:  Top right, bride and groom for our wedding.
2011:  Bottom left, a Hawaiian snowman for our trip to Hawaii for our first anniversary. Now, we did a lot of traveling that year and other things, too, but Hawaii was such a great time we decided to make this our 2011 ornament.
2012:  Bottom middle, expecting ornament for being pregnant with Lucy!
2013:  Bottom right, a house that in the middle says "Sold 2013" and my house address and Ross' house address on the top. Now, by far the biggest thing that happened in our life this year was Lucy being born, but we'll have "baby's first Christmas" ornaments, so figured this house ornament would be a good reminder of this year, too.

I look forward to continuing this tradition each year. It will be fun to look back in 10, 20, 30 years from now and remember each year by way of our ornaments.