We have a tradition of buying Christmas ornaments from wherever we happen to travel. I love looking at all of them and remembering where we were when we bought them. Only problem is I think we’re going to need a bigger tree soon.
Here are our new ornaments for the year:
We’ve got (from top left, clockwise): Coronado (I say that guy is a SEAL, but Chris says no), Ireland, Helen (Georgia, where we went to Oktoberfest), Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Nashville (I like to say that he’s Charlie Daniels, but Chris says it’s just cowboy Santa Claus. What does he know?).
Apparently, we forgot to get an ornament from Beaufort, although both of us were sure we got one. Maybe we just put it up somewhere and forgot about it…
And our random non-travel related new ornaments this year:
The top is a fairy decorating a cake (no explanation needed). The next is a little old lady made out of hojas (the corn husks wrapped around tamales). My mom had an ornament just like that and my sister made me this replica last year. She’s hella crafty. And then the bottom is Jingle, the husky pup, who asked for a home for Christmas. Since Bones is half husky and we rescued her two weeks before Christmas, it seemed appropriate 
But yep… if we travel at all next year, we’re definitely going to need a bigger tree.
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What a neat tradition! We get magnets everywhere we go, but Ornaments are so neat! We definitely have more ornaments than tree, but I didn’t break them all out this year. There is no sense overwhelming hubs right before deployment with the amount we (I) have (brought into the marriage).
We have this tradition too and we get one for every year we are together and one for every year Gman has been alive {but when he gets older and has his own family, we’ll give him those} I love the sentimentality, but I hear you, the tree is running out of room!!