I think one of the reasons I love Christmas is that we have some lovely traditions attached to the holiday. We’re not always great about traditions, but Christmas is full of them! I’m hoping to write about a couple of our Christmas traditions, but now that we’re leaving on Saturday, I’m not sure I’ll get them up. I really wanted to do this one though, so I’m making it happen!
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is ordering a new photo ornament. I have one for every year since the 14yo was born. Sometimes it’s just a random photo I use, other times the ornament memorializes a trip we took that year. For two years, I used our Halloween photo! Here are all the yearly photo ornaments I’ve made so far. Enjoy seeing our faces for once! (I don’t know what I’m okay posting photos of photos, it makes no sense, but I’m going to do it anyway).
We also have some photo ornaments of the pets. Our bearded dragon lets us put outfits on him, so we dressed him up for his ornament. We made a remembrance ornament of our cat who died two years ago, and that same year we got an ornament of our new kittens (whose real names you’ll see on the ornament!)
Every year I get to put out these ornaments and remember the special moments shown on them. Also, their red ribbons are an important addition to our tree!
All of these ornaments are from Shutterfly. I think there is one kind of ornament I have not ordered from them. I looked this year at other sites to find something new and different and nothing I saw looked very good. If you know of a site I can order photo ornaments, I’d love to know what it is! I also give the ornament I make to both sets of grandparents, so I definitely want them to be good quality.
Anyway, photo ornaments is one Christmas tradition I love. I hope to share more in the coming days.
