The Evolution of Our Christmas Trees

For our first Christmas together in 2008, Doug and I were living in an apartment and were going home for the holidays.  Therefore, we had a tree that, although live, was maybe 3 feet tall.  It was very cute and we bought two small boxes of ornaments for it.  Although it was small, it meant a lot to Doug and myself, because it was our first tree together.  The tree served its purpose and we celebrated Christmas, just the two of us, before we went back to Florida and had full Christmases with our families.  Unfortunately, I don't have a picture readily available of aforementioned tree.


Last year, we had a house and therefore had a full-size tree.  I do not remember decorating this tree, nor do I remember much of Christmas because Weston was causing me to be SO sick.  We had gotten ornaments from our families the previous year and had bought more ornaments, so we had plenty to decorate a large(r) tree.  We enjoyed wrapping presents and filling in area under the tree.  We went 3 hours away on Christmas Day and left the following day to Florida for a week, so our tree didn't get a whole lot of actual Christmas use.  However, we did sit in front of it while we opened presents from each other at 4 am before leaving for north Mississippi.

This year, I had hopes that we would cut a nice, big tree at the tree farm that would fit beautifully in our big, high-ceilinged living room.  However, we all know how that turned out.  Therefore, although I'm happy we have a nice tree, it's not as big as I would have liked.  I loved decorating it while Doug helped me, Weston watched and smiled and we listened to Christmas music.  It was quite a memory-making event. 

The tree also holds a timeline to our relationship which is kind of cool, but also a reminder of how quickly everything in our life has happened. 

We have an ornament celebrating our wedding:

                                               

We have an ornament from St. John in the Virgin Islands, where we had our honeymoon:

We have an ornament of our first married Christmas:

We have an ornament of our baby's first Christmas...the year after our first married Christmas...:

We also have an ornament commemorating our first Christmas as a family.

Advent day 20.  Nearly there and yet a lot to do in 5 days!