Christmas Ornaments

Growing up, my family always had a tradition of giving the children/cousins Christmas ornaments each year. As a result, when we all moved away and started our own families and Christmas traditions, we each had a complement of ornaments as a starting point.

We've kept this up for Carter and Callen. Each year, they typically get at least one ornament from us, my parents and my sister.

So, last Monday night, Big Pat and Bamma stopped by to help me with a car issue I was having {Nick was out of town for work}, and they brought Carter and Callen their ornaments. Carter got a boot {see Woody Boots, a few posts back if you are scratching your head about why} and Callen got a purse {probably because anything she can get over her arm turns into one}. Here are a few pictures of them hanging them on the tree with help from Big Pat and Bamma.

Lucky for my children, Aunt B stopped by the same evening, so they got to run through the routine twice in one night! Aunt B and Uncle Ken gave Carter a swimming Santa {since Carter learned to swim this year} and Callen a bell that was made into a crab.

Everyone hanging ornaments...

Hopefully one day they'll have as much fun going back through all of the memories and boring their spouse to death as they hang these ornaments on their own trees years down the road!