Ornament Tradition

One of our traditions is getting one new ornament every year. This is a tradition that we did in my family growing up. Trav and I both loved the idea so much that we decided to carry on.

As kids, we had to take turns picking out the ornament, so that it was fair for everyone. I usually got some sort of cute Santa ornament (which I still love for the record). Michael usually picked out the globe/bulby ones with the train/moving inside. I think Christina usually got the little house/town/store kind of ornaments. I don't remember what Ben chose....Sorry!

Anywho, back to Christmas present....Since there is just Trav and I we can usually just find and agree on the same ornament. We usually try to find an ornament that represents something about that year. For our first Christmas, we got a cute first Christmas ornament. It was called, "Leap of Love" and was frogs. For our second Christmas, we had painted the house, so we got an ornament that had a ladder, a paint bucket/brush, and tools. Last year, we had done so much traveling, that we picked out a suitcase.

Well this year, the big things were adopting Mazie and working on the basement. Since, we already had the ladder ornament, we decided to try and find something with a dog. When we saw this, we knew it was ABSOLUTELY perfect! It even plays "Bad to the Bone" if you press a button!

Thanks mom and dad for picking up this ornament; we couldn't get it at our local Layton Hallmark. We had a back up ornament, just in case; it was not nearly as perfect. It was a car door, that you slid your own dog picture into.