Tradition

When I was pregnant with Mastin, someone that I worked with gave me a great idea.  Hallmark has many ornament series and we decided to start a series for Mastin and the year he was born, I bought the first ornament in the Snow Buddies series.  Each year, we buy the next ornament in the series.  By the time he is out on his own, I plan to give him the entire series for his own tree.

Of course, we continued the tradition with each child.  Chase has the Snowball and Tuxedo series and Emma started with a music box series but we changed a few years ago to the Fairy Messenger series.

Each Christmas the kids get excited to see what the ornament looks like for their series.  This year, I purchased a small tree for each of them to display their own ornaments.  It was fun to open up the boxes to see the ornaments over the past several  years and it has become a  very special tradition for our family.

Mastin and his 12 Snowbuddies

Chase and his 9 Snowball & Tuxedo

Emma and her 8 ornaments