I love Christmas. There are some traditions that I get very excited about every December. One of them is the Christmas tree. It's been 2 years since I've put up the tree. Last year I was 9 months pregnant with a 15 month old so I didn't have the energy to do the tree last year. This made me all the more excited to put it up this year, even though I now have 2 little boys that can play with the tree. One thing I love about it is the ornaments. I remember putting up the tree growing up and my mom would pull out all the ornaments and we would get to put them on the tree. She had so many that had stories behind them or special meaning. I am the same way with my ornaments. Most all of them have meaning, or a story behind them. Here are just a few of my favorites...(the pictures didn't turn out that well but I will put them on here anyway)
This is Blake's ornament for this year...it says baby's first.
Here is our First Christmas Together ornament
Every year my mom gets us new ornaments and this one is from 2008..the year we started our family when Nathan was born.
This one says "Christmas in the Mission Field 2003" (it's hard to see it)
My mother-in-law gave my these cute little shoes last year when I was pregnant with my little boy...Blake was born 3 weeks later.
This one says "Sister Nelson Urbana Ward 2003" I got this in my first area on my mission from the student Ward RS. I loved that Ward!
A snowflake that says "Nauvoo" - One of my favorite places!!
This is a homemade ornament from my Grammie. On the back it says, Merry Christmas, love Grammie and Papa. When they were alive, it was a tradition that we would get ornaments from them as well.
I have lots more but that is all I will share. I have a first Christmas for Nathan as well but it's a little snow globe and I couldn't take a good picture of it (I tried :)
Another memory I have of Christmas growing up is making a white chocolate Nativity with my Grammie. I have been looking for the molds for a while and my Grandma that lives here in St. George had them! I was so excited that she let me use them this year so this last weekend, we made a white chocolate Nativity. Nathan keeps asking if he can eat it. He has already licked Joseph so that one is his :)
5 comments:
I love that you do ornaments too! I have so many from my grandparents. They would give us one every year as well. However, my tree is only half ornaments this year because little hands are obsessed with grabbing them. So the top half looks good. Ha.
Also, what an awesome idea with the chocolate nativity. I will have to try that one year.
I loved your tree and ornaments. Gotta say i think the decorating the tree is one of the best parts! I don't remember the chocolate nativity but yours looks very pretty and i laughed when you said that Nathan has already licked Joseph!
We do ornaments every year too. It's a fun tradition! You have some fun ornaments! Merry Christmas!!
That white chocolate nativity is amazing!! Love your guts Red! Hope you guys have a very Merry Christmas!
i love the ornament tradition :) Hope you have a Merry Christmas.
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