Hallmark

There are lots of things I'm in love with; my husband, my girls, the Lord, and Hallmark ornaments. Well really just Christmas ornaments in general I guess. In the past I have just had them all together wrapped up in a tissue paper and put in a cardboard CVS box and then we separate them and each put ours' up on the tree. This year, it's still weird that this is a new year, it will be simpler. I bought these cute see through totes and each person gets one:

Then I went a little crazy at Hallmark this past week when they had their ornaments 75% off.

Here's our little family in the form of Hallmark ornaments:

The total was nearly $200 for all of these full price, but I only paid around  $30 for all of these:

I have officially put away all of our Christmas decorations and such so it really does feel like a new year. I think a lot of great things are going to come this year and a few big changes. I'm excited, about the changes and these ornaments!

Christmas Traditions

Christmas is swiftly approaching, which I can hardly tolerate because that means my baby will be a year old.

A YEAR OLD!!!! 

Uggghh how did that happen?

When did that happen?

Okay, I'll collect myself here...

I have a few things that I'm addicted to as I have mentioned before... like mail, little girl hair bows, magazines, party supplies. At least they are all legal things. Right? That's what I tell myself anyway.

Another of those things happens to be Christmas ornaments.

When Riley was a baby I bought her about 10 my first Christmas ornaments, because how often is your baby going to have a first Christmas? Only once.

With all that being said, each year as a family tradition, we go pick out a Christmas ornament for our tree.

I think I love ornaments so much because they can tell the story of your life. There's just something so darn poetic about it. Like this one:

 This is the year we bought our first home and here's an ornament of it!

These are the ornaments from this year. We got them from Hobby Lobby.

Riley's:

Mine! I love nutcrackers. My mom always had a ton of them when I was a kid. 

This is Hub's. 

I have a ton of nicknames for Brandon, one of them is bears.

 Since Raggie is a baby, I thought she would too young to pick out her own, but she wasn't. I wanted her to get this cute cupcake one, but she choose this one instead and WOULD NOT let go of it for anything! haha

Here's our little ornament family for Christmas 2010!

What are your family traditions?