2006 ornaments

i love christmas ornaments... i love reminiscing as we hang them on the tree, thinking about when we received or bought each one. some are from our childhood, and some we've picked up on vacation...and some are just the result of a great after-christmas sale at target! (and i reminisce about the great deal i found! ha!) last year, i wrote about the tradition we've started of buying a family ornament for each year, as well as an ornament for each of our children. this year, brian's mom gave us our family ornament, a picture frame with 4 little mugs hanging from it... so cute! it's perfect to represent our family this year, since caroline's arrival makes 4! since we just took our christmas pictures today, this random family has been hanging on our tree for the last month- ha! but at least now i have a good picture to put in there for 2006. thanks, mama d!

caroline's first christmas ornament is a sweet silver bell from things remembered. originally, i had planned to buy her the same silver boot that we chose for ethan last year, but i figured that if i started this tradition of getting EXACTLY the same ornament for each of our children's first christmas, down the road at kid number whatever, things remembered would discontinue the silver boot, and i in my OCD-ness would not be able to handle that rift in our deep seeded tradition. so to save the stress on brian down the road when his wife goes bizerk over ornaments, we decided to go with a different one altogether... but we kept the pewter/silver looking tradition. :) on caroline's bell, we had "caroline 2006" and "first christmas" engraved on opposite sides. i think it has a sweet, girly touch to it. and she seems to like it. :)



i haven't taken any pictures yet of ethan with his ornament for this year. i'll try to do that soon and add pictures to this post.