Oh Christmas Tree, oh Christmas Tree!

Last night, Sean and I decorated our beautiful tree! I love unwrapping all of the ornaments and reminiscing about each one. It's fun to think about where we were in our lives the year we got the ornament, although it can be a little bittersweet too. Our tree has no theme. There are no required colors for the ornaments or lights. No even spacing between ornaments. It's more of a living scrapbook of our lives thus far.

My favorite ornament this year is a felt snowman with the year 2007 embroidered on his hat. His belly is cut-out and a clear plastic window covers the hole, a place for a picture. We put our family photo from last Christmas in it, the one we used for our Christmas cards. It's a very sentimental ornament to me. Our very first Christmas as a family of three! :) What a sweet memory.

My other favorite ornaments include Cory's 'Baby's First Christmas' ornament as well as our 'New Parents 2007' ornament.

One of the bittersweet moments I was talking about happened when I unwrapped the 'New Home 2005' ornament. We got this one the year we bought our house on Hollingsworth Road. We had so many hopes and dreams for that house and that land. We were going to create so many memories there. And we did. Just not as many as we had hoped. We did get to bring our first born home to that house. :) That is a super sweet memory. Even though that ornament doesn't apply to the house we live in now, we still put it on the tree. We sold that house to better our future and enable us to eventually have a bigger, better house with even more land. We had to move in order to build our hopes and our dreams. Had the opportunity to build our business presented itself prior to buying that house, we wouldn't have bought it. But that wasn't in the cards for us. We were meant to live in that house, even if it was only for two years. They were a wonderful two years, that's for sure.

Ah. Enough with the memories. We've got icicle lights to finish getting up outside. Well. OK. Sean has icicle lights to finish getting up outside. I have a baby boy who sounds like he may be ready to get up from his nap. :) Time to play!