Christmas Ornament Tradition

We do not have many Christmas traditions of our own yet.  I think that happens when you have your own kids.  But we do have one - the ornament of the year.  We do not have one of the "matchy-matchy" trees, although I think those are pretty.  Instead, our tree has ornaments with meaning-even if mismatched.   Each year we add at least one (but usually more) ornament that represent a significant event of that past year.  In ten years from now, we will be able to look back and remember what we did each year, just based off of our ornaments.  Here they are so far...

2007-
We were engaged this Christmas.  The ornament isn't the cutest or Christmasy-est, but we bought it at Vanzant's orchard, where Michael proposed.

2008- The year we got married!  The first ornament is obvious, the second is from a (mission) trip we took to Egypt just a few days after Christmas.  

2009- We spent a lot of this year overseas. The two ornaments are a (mini) shoe and a cooking pot commonly seen in the country we spent the most time.  

2010- The year Michael started working at Field Agent- this ornament is obviously homemade and is hiding on the back of the tree- but until their company has an ornament, this will have to do.  

2011- This year we went to Scotland and Ireland on vacation.  The cross is a Celtic cross from Ireland, and the other is self explanatory from Scotland.  We also became homeowners this year- ornament coming soon. 

Not all of our ornaments having meaning.... yet.  Hopefully by year 50 of marriage they will.