This is our decorated tree from last year, our first Christmas in our new home.
Our first Christmas together we did not have our own place and did not have a tree, we lived with a friend and she already had the tree and decorations. So we did not buy an ornament this year, we did not like to was to appropriate to buy one that said our first Christmas since we had only been dating for three months.Dustin and I decorated our first Christmas tree last year in our new home. We bought lots of decorations for the tree, we decided to go with the country look, with pine cones, cranberries, rustic bells, a star made of twigs and cranberries to top it off, etc.... We decided to buy a new ornament each year with the year on it. So last year we bought the Polar Express silver bell with the year 2007 on the gold ticket. I love reading the book and we love watching the movie each year. "The bell with ring for all those who truly believe."
My older sister bought us our first Christmas ornament, though. It was two reindeer heads shaped into a heart kissing. I loved receiving the meaningful ornament to represent our first real Christmas together. We still did not buy one that said our first Christmas together because even though we knew that we were going to be married months later, now it was not our first Christmas but our second.
This year I found a snowflake ornament with the year 2008 on it. This ornament is a memory because it will remind us of the two days of snow that the Las Vegas valley had a week before Christmas. 
This year is also our first Christmas as Mr. and Mrs. Dustin McGlothlin. Since it still would not make sense to buy an our first Christmas ornament, I made one. I took a clear glass ball and printed a wedding picture on velum to put inside. I took silver glitter and wrote MCGLOTHLIN 4-13-08. So, this ornament will represent our first Christmas as a married couple.
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