When G and I got married we decided to start a "tradition" of buying a Christmas ornament from every place we travel to together. It has been so fun collecting these ornaments and re-living all the memories. We plan to keep this tradition up even after we have kids! I encourage you to start some kind of Christmas tradition like this. It makes me so excited to decorate the tree and remember all the places we have been. For example, when G hung our ornament from our honeymoon in Mexico, his first thought was: "Remember when we ordered room service and got one of every single thing on the menu?" Yes, babe, I do #welovefood
Here are some of the places we have been:
Riviera Maya, Mexico (honeymoon)
Nashville, TN
Vail, CO
Charleston, SC
New York City
We have an ornament tradition too! My mom started it when we were kids and now my husband and I grab an ornament from every travel place. We have some amazing ones from Alaska and Canada and I'm excited to add more international ones this year and next.
ReplyDeleteYou should add this to the Christmas Countdown linkup :)!
A super fun tradition! I love looking back at our ornaments and reliving what we did then--and this is a fun way to keep on doing that as well!
ReplyDeleteWe have the same tradition and I hope you don't mind if I steal this idea for a post!! I love looking back each year on places we've gone together since we've been married! xo, Biana -BlovedBoston
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely tradition! you know what i collect? coasters. is that super weird? haha. they are easy to store and i always have a fun memory. also free. my mom got me on that trend. :)
ReplyDeletexoxo cheshire kat
I love this tradition. I always try to pick up an ornament when I travel. Such a great memento
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun tradition. How fun to look back every year and remember all the places you have been :-)
ReplyDeleteWe have this same tradition and I love it!! And I actually have that same New York ornament- got it at the huge Christmas store in Little Italy :)
ReplyDeletexo, Kristina
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ReplyDeleteI just love yall. Xo
ReplyDeleteSuch a sweet tradition!
ReplyDeleteLove all these. This is one of my favorite things to do!
ReplyDeleteI'm partial to the Charleston ornament ;) but I love them all. This is a FANTASTIC idea for a tradition!!
ReplyDeleteI love this idea! I got a few ornaments when I was abroad, but I wish I had gotten one from every place I'd been. I do try to get one from every place I visit now.
ReplyDeleteI've collected ornaments from my vacations for years! It's such a great way to remember special trips without cluttering up your home all year round.
ReplyDeleteI love these! Such special memories!
ReplyDeleteWe have the same tradition and it's one of my favorites to talk about our vacation memories!
ReplyDeleteI love this!! You've gotten some adorable ornaments!
ReplyDeleteWe do this too!! It's one of my favorites!! We've found them (well I should say remembered to pick them up) everywhere but Bora Bora so I'm just going to make one for there. It's such fun remembering all the places we went! One day eventually I'd like to have one of our trees just with the traveling ornaments.
ReplyDeleteI love this tradition!! I picked up a Texas ornament earlier this year and when my fiance went to London he got me one from there, I may have been subconsciously collecting this :)!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love this tradition, and plan on starting it with my family too - what a great idea, and awesome memories. So fun! Thanks so much for linking up!
ReplyDeleteLOVE this idea! We really need to start doing this - we always get coffee table picture books from all of our vacations but I love the idea of a Christmas tree full of travel memories :)
ReplyDeleteOMG! We do this too! My favorite is when we pull these ornaments out and talk about the trips! I have this post scheduled for next week! :) xo
ReplyDeleteI love this!! I also love that you write the dates on then! That's a great idea!!
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