Every year we head out the day after Thanksgiving and look for our ornaments for the year. I have been buying the kids an ornament every year since they were born. Sometimes they are just cute ones, sometimes they are ones the kids themselves picked out, other times they have reflected something about the kids, their personality or what's going on in their lives! Someday I hope to be able to part with them and give the kids their own ornaments to decorate their trees with when they get big and leave home! {Don't worry I have a lots of ornaments for the tree too...family ones, so that I am not left with a sad and bare tree!!} It has been a fun tradition to go pick them out and see the kids get excited about every ornament they find. It has also been so much fun to watch them get out the ornaments every year when we decorate the tree as they look back on the ones from years past! {Kyler crying about how he doesn't have as many as Kailee and Austin...not fun!!}
Austin found this ornament at Hallmark. It SCREAMS Austin....it's a little video game controller!
Kailee would be the pickle lover as most of you know...if you didn't...you have been living under a rock...she talks as much about pickles as she does anything else! Instead of signing her name most times she signs"picklez" :)
Tyson was on a hunt this year for a muchkin ornament. He wanted to remember that he was in the Wizard of Oz. He found this and decided it was perfect...he is in the Lollipop Guild in the show and this is a bucket full of lollipops! :)
Kyler has learned to read in the last few months and does better and better every day! He is quite the little reader! We thought this ornament was especially appropriate! It's a book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar...which is a book he loves!!{{You may have noticed the "diet coke can" at the beginning of this post...not a lot of mystery behind that if you know me! I know! Shawn found this one and insisted I get it! I didn't want it! Finally I agreed but only if it went towards the back of the tree! Since we hung it, it has grown on me...it's pretty funny actually so it has crept out a little from behind all the branches!}}
----->Shawn has yet to find his ornament...he looking for just the right one! Although I don't know what that is!<----
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There is actually a German (I think) tradition behind the green pickle ornament. My family does it every year. If you are interested I can let you know the whole story or I am sure you can look it up on the Internet.
What a great tradition! Makes decorating the tree every year so much fun for them, I bet! Love the ornaments!
We do the same tradition. I write the kid's names and year on each ornament so we can kind of see what they've chosen each year. This year we bought them at DisneyWorld (I wonder why?) So, don't let Ty see Austin's. He will be so jealous.
i need this kind of traditon! i think i'll copy you!! ;) thanks for the great idea! and the diet coke is SO you girlfriend!
I just love that you decorate the tree with all the fun and variety of the kids! Of course you need an ornament each year too!! I've seen ugly hiking boot ornaments at REI...maybe perfect for Shawn!
Loving you all!
I was just telling Jordan that I want to do this for the kids! What a great tradition! All the ornaments you found are so great! Where did you find them all? I suppose I need to branch out from looking at Hobby Lobby...(I'm just a sucker for the 50% off sales!) :)
Too cute!
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