Today, I'd like to share our holiday tree with you. Our Christmas Tree is dedicated to the young members of our family and those who are young at heart. We opt for a live tree and always bring it home the weekend after Thanksgiving. You can read about this year's A Christmas Vacation-like adventure here.
Jordan's birthday is December 23 so each year he gets a new ornament for his birthday. We also have ornaments from our summer vacations in New England, Florida, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
My favorite ornaments are the ones Jordan made in school.
My nephew, Jason (now 30) made this ornament in kindergarten. It still has a home on our Christmas Tree.Years ago, my mother bought personalized apples with each of the grandkids' names for her tree. I have carried on this tradition and our tree now has 19 grand and great grandchild ornaments and the kids (big and little) love to hunt for their ornament on the tree.
From BJ to Jaxon
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy leaves are green forever.
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy beauty leaves thee never.
Thy leaves are green in summer's prime,
Thy leaves are green at Christmas time.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy leaves are green forever.
Thy leaves are green forever.
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy beauty leaves thee never.
Thy leaves are green in summer's prime,
Thy leaves are green at Christmas time.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
Thy leaves are green forever.
I will be joining Joni's It's a Wonderful Life , Mary's Mosaic Monday parties, and Gina's Holly Bloggy Home Tour.
You tree is beautiful and I love the way you have such sweet memories with all your ornaments.
ReplyDeleteThat is wonderful LA! I chuckled as one of my boys made the very same stick ornament, and I too proudly adorn it each year along with some others they have made. Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteOh, that looks so pretty! I like the stick reindeer. We have one of the puzzle piece wreaths too!
ReplyDeleteWonderful traditions proclaiming love of family. The children's ornaments that decorate your tree after all these years proclaim it most of all. The tree is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteGosh what a lovely Christmas tree and mosaic post.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful tree La! Lots of memories on there!~Hugs, Patti
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! Love that you are making lots of memories!
ReplyDeleteYou tree is beautiful and I simply love the way you have such sweet memories with all your ornaments...you blog looks so festive and lovely!
ReplyDeletelovely coming around tovit you today!
hugs
lila
OOh that makes me feel very Christmassy!
ReplyDeleteWow you got a beautiful tree, when I use to get a real tree, it always ended up looking like a Charlie Brown tree, I just could not pick them. The hand made ornament are my favorite also!
ReplyDeleteCarol
Wowee! your tree is beautiful, I can't wait to get mine up now - I don't think for one moment it will look as brilliant as yours though xx
ReplyDeleteThe tree looks great La! Love the special ornaments, it's all about the memories-enjoy:@)
ReplyDeleteYour Christmas tree is absolutely beautiful:)
ReplyDeleteHave a great day, hugs Biljana
Your tree is beautiful La. I love the kid's ornaments. We have an assortment of those too. The get added in each year. I always hang on to everything they have made. My favorite is their pottery projects. Very interesting.LOL
ReplyDeleteSherry
I don't think Dan had very creative teachers- we have two whole things that he made in school! LOL They always hung on "his" tree in his room. I think it's fun to have a tree with an assortment of ornaments. You're lucky to have this and their memories!
ReplyDeleteI have always had themed trees, so I never had a collection of different things. Reminds me of the trees we had growing up! ~ Sue
I love your tree and the ornament tradition is so special.
ReplyDeletexo bj
I love your tree and the special ornaments, My tree is the same way.. I dont have kids yet, but all of our ornaments are ours from when we were growing up and ones that we had on our tree growing up as well as a few newer ones. I love decorating it that way i feel that it is so much more pretty, and special, than doing a "themed" tree (although they are beautiful as well!!)
ReplyDeleteThank you for commenting on my post I was so excited to show off my new nativity set!!!!
What a wonderful family memory tree! I love the ornaments made by kids the best!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit and comment! Can you believe I posted three times today! I hope you will come back to see all of them!
Katherine
I do envy your live tree -- we wimped three years ago, after about 19 years of live ones. My husband likes it better that way. I have a little tree with all those precious ornaments from the kids and all the traditional ornaments. What a great shaped tree you have. Thanks for linking up to my "It's a Wonderful Life" Party! Joni
ReplyDeleteNext year you'll have a new one to put up!! Little Charlotte!!
ReplyDeleteThe tree is awesome!!! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful tree full of memories! How wonderful that you'd still have your nephew's handmade ornament after 25 years! I'm your newest follower and would be delighted to have you follow me back! Look forward to reading more of your blog.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
Tammy
I still have our children's Christmas decorations, some twenty years later. They come out every year looking just a little tireder, but it wouldn't be Christmas without them!
ReplyDeleteHappy Christmas to you too and thank you for all your kind comments left on my blog.