Nous petite tradition!

Ever since we got married Colin and I have ventured out on December 1st hot beverage in hand... this year... a peppermint white mocha.... to look for a new Christmas ornament for our tree. Among the many added are airplanes, deer heads, snow flakes, Christmas stockings and many other beautiful little memories! I love our Christmas tree! It is always a mish mosh of ornaments that we both have collected over the years. My favorite part of decorating the tree is unwrapping each ornament and remembering where or who it came from. My mom bought me ballerinas every year to put on a small tree that I got to keep in my room with pink lights on it! I know that that is a tradition that I want to keep with our kids. Colin's ornament from his family was either a snowman or a soldier (which goes perfectly with my ballerinas!)

This year, as we are now a family of three we got to buy three new ornaments on our December 1st adventure. We usually go in the evening but Colin has youth tonight so he came home on his lunch break and took me and Rupert out for our hot beverage and ornament hunt. It was a wonderful little outing and we did not come home empty handed. We found an amazing little felt penguin for Rupert. We have decided that each year we will try to find him a penguin and that will be his special ornament from us! Colin got a cute little Santa as it reminded him of the one from the Rudolph movie... I fully agree! And I also got a penguin this year as I am a proud momma of my little penguin... and it was pink and sparkly... a fantastic combination by my estimation! So now we have these three new little ornaments for our eclectic tree... I think we may need a bigger tree next year :D