There are so many wonderful traditions that go along with celebrating Christmas. Family traditions seem to create the very best memories...memories that you can hold on to forever. As we get married and start families of our own, it's fun to establish new holiday traditions.
Our first "Martin Family Tradition" came about unintentionally...and I guess it started even before we got married. It goes back to the first Christmas we were dating when I gave Ryan an ornament for his non-existent Christmas tree. The following year we both got each other ornaments, and so the Christmas ornament tradition was born. After we got married, we decided that we'd pick out one ornament together to represent something special from that year and wait until Christmas morning {or whenever we exchange gifts with each other} to hang it on our tree.
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| 2011: The beginning of our ornament tradition. |
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| 2012: The long-distance relationship ornament. |
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| 2012: Ryan gave me this ornament the night we got engaged {12/22/2012}. |
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| 2013: An ornament to represent buying our first home together. |
Our Christmas ornament tradition evolved a bit while we were on our honeymoon in Aruba. We knew we wanted to take home some type of keepsake to remember the trip, but we had a hard time finding a souvenir that wasn't ridiculously cheesy. We finally found a small "beach in a bottle" trinket and decided we could turn it into an ornament. Thus, travel souvenirs were added to our ornament tradition.
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| November 2013: Aruba |
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| January 2014: Breckenridge, Colorado |
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| August 2014: Nashville, Tennessee |
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| November 2014: Napa Valley, California |
Do you have a unique Christmas tradition?
