Some of our ornament collection

I know I have mentioned to some of you before about our Christmas tradition of getting a new ornament every year. We get a family ornament and we usually get an ornament to represent anything great that happened throughout the year. It has been so fun for us to do this and then every year as we unwrap them we look through all of them. It definitely makes me smile and as we pull each one out we get to remember the good memories. So this year as I took the tree down I decided to take some pictures of some of my favorites and share them with you. Under each picture I have explained the ornaments in the picture.


These three are from 2007 while I was pregnant with Brayden. We were supposed to come up with names to put on the book on the one to the far left but the only name we ever came up with is Brayden. We never really debated. Then we had the family pregnancy one, and then we found a kid with a firefighter helmet on and on his shirt it says "big brother" so Mychael got his own to represent his soon to be role.


These four are the family ones throughout the years. Each one has our names and the year on it.



These are all ornaments that Mychael has made us in school starting in Kindergarten


The top one is Braydens 1st year ornament. The stocking and tree are ornaments that were made for the kids this year by Grandma Marlene and the two socks in the middle are each of the kids first sock that they wore. Braydens on the left and Mychaels on the right.


and these are ornaments from different occasions through the years. The first one is a dog holding a key that says "new home". We got that the year we moved into this house. The 2nd is a Cardinals Baseball ornament with Oct 27 written on the side. This is because we were married Oct 27 which was also the day the Cardinals (our favorite team) won the World Series. The third is a married couple obviously for the year we got married. The fourth is a Saints symbol with 2008 on it. We got that while we were in New Orleans when we went to see out first Saints (our other favorite team) game. The fifth is a football ornament with Mychaels name, year, team, and 1st place on it for when his football team won the championship. The last says "our first Christmas" on it from when we got together.

So that's all of them. Just thought Id share with you all. Now I am going to go put Brayden to sleep because my sanity is telling me he needs a nap :)

See ya,
Christy