11.29.2012

Ornament Show & Tell

So after decorating our Christmas tree last weekend, I was thinking it would be fun to post some of my favorite ornaments! Then I thought of you guys and how I'd love to see what's hanging on your trees also! Feel free to grab the image above for your own ornament posts. Be sure to let me know if you do so that I can read up! 

Derek and I have always collected ornaments to the places we've traveled. Either I have an ornament on the tree, or it was broken by the dogs, from each of the places on the right-hand side of the blog. I love this tradition and will continue it until I'm too old to travel. Hopefully by retirement, we have a full tree of ornaments just from our trips! Here are a few of my favs....
Clockwise Order: London, Cayman Islands, Sanibel, Vail, Paris, Costa Rica, Disney World
And then there are my favorite sentimental ornaments. Our engraved wedding heart, Drew's first Christmas picture and then the silver spoon engraved with "Baby's 1st Christmas 2011".

And what tree would be complete without a couple ornaments with our favorite team on them?

Now it's your turn!

 ....Johannah over at The Sirois Family  and my dear
friends Desiree at The Macke Monologues and Laura at Laura's Latest In Life already posted theirs!


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25 comments:

  1. JenNovember 29, 2012 at 5:16 PM

    beautiful ornaments!!! :)

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  2. AnonymousNovember 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM

    Those ornaments are so pretty! We don't have our tree up yet to put any ornaments on, lol! Heck, we still have to GET our tree! You're doing so much better than I am, I'm SO not worthy (as I bow to you), lol! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today and leaving a comment. And, your gift giving progress is making me feel so much better!

    By the way, I was checking out all your travels on your right side margin and WOW, you guys have been to some places. I'm not trying to play "catch up"!

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  3. AmyNovember 29, 2012 at 5:40 PM

    Love your ornaments. I will have to post a few of my favorites once we get a tree and decorate it. :-) I love the idea of collecting ornaments from places you've been. I wish I had started that. I do however, always bring back an ornament for my MIL from where we've traveled.

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  4. BridgetNovember 29, 2012 at 6:01 PM

    Great idea to collect ornaments!

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  5. AshleyNovember 29, 2012 at 6:12 PM

    awe this is awesome! I love ornaments so much!

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  6. Johannah SiroisNovember 29, 2012 at 6:36 PM

    I love all your ornaments! This is a great idea =) Think i'm going to do the same now =)

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  7. kkasunNovember 29, 2012 at 6:38 PM

    I love the idea of the travel ornaments!!!! What a great way to remember them by!

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  8. Desiree MackeNovember 29, 2012 at 6:52 PM

    We collect ornaments from the places we travel, too! And, it looks like we have the same sliver Baby's First Christmas spoon. Great minds think alike! I will be linking this up on my blog soon. Love the show and tell!

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  9. FaithNovember 29, 2012 at 9:08 PM

    Oh how I wish I had time to do this because I have so many that I love:), but alas, I don't, lol....Addy has the same Baby's First picture ornament that Andrew has:).

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  10. DeidreNovember 29, 2012 at 9:13 PM

    Cute, I don't have any of my own ornaments, and we don't really put up a christmas tree (it doesn't feel that Christmas to me because I live in australia now, and christmas in summer is just weird to me!), but I love all the ornaments my mom has.

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  11. StephanieNovember 30, 2012 at 7:51 AM

    I love your variety of ornaments! Besides the keepsake ones like you mentioned, first home, first Christmas together, new baby, I am collecting angel ornaments for my mom. Each year I ask for angel ornaments from people and my hope is to one day have a tree solely decorated in angels.

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  12. HeleneNovember 30, 2012 at 9:46 AM

    love these ornaments! especially the kansas one ;)!

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  13. JennNovember 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM

    Beautiful! You've inspired me to create an ornament post once we get our tree up, thanks for sharing!

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  14. HeidiNovember 30, 2012 at 10:11 AM

    Lovely! My parents had a tradition of giving each of us a kids a new ornament for Christmas. Now we do this with our own kids. They love having their own ornaments that they get to place on the tree.

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  15. Amber DominguezNovember 30, 2012 at 10:29 AM

    I flipflop between wanting to stick with two color schemed ornaments and wanting to start a collection of random cute ornaments! Also, I'm jealous of your travel ornaments, the only time I've "left the country" was to Canada to see Niagara Falls, and I don't really think that counts! haha

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  16. dave and jennNovember 30, 2012 at 10:53 AM

    I love that you have ornaments from your travels! I've always thought that was a fun idea.

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  17. Desiree MackeNovember 30, 2012 at 11:37 AM

    Here's my Show and Tell! Thanks for the idea!!
    http://d-and-s-macke.blogspot.com/2012/11/ornament-show-and-tell-rak-roundup.html

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  18. StephanieNovember 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM

    I love this blog post! Christmas is my favorite time of year, hands down!

    I have nominated you for a blog awared - Liebster Award! Check out my blog for details.

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  19. henning loveNovember 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM

    love jayhawk ornaments!! we lived in lawrence for three years when i was a kid and i have great memories of that place!

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  20. Anne BirdsongNovember 30, 2012 at 5:05 PM

    Hi Sarah, I’m Anne from Life on the Funny Farm (http://annesfunnyfarm.blogspot.com), and I’m visiting from Friday Chaos.

    Oh wow, what a great idea for a collection! So simple, doesn't take up any space, and yet so meaningful. I love it!

    Anyway, thanks for posting this. If you’ve never visited yet, I hope you can pop by my blog sometime to say hi…

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  21. todellNovember 30, 2012 at 5:08 PM

    Thanks for a cool idea! I am getting ready to post some of my favorite ornaments!

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  22. UnknownDecember 1, 2012 at 8:23 AM

    Just returning the "hi" you left on my site, and I noticed the Kansas Jayhawk's ornament. I'm from Lawrence! Are you from there or maybe you went to KU?

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    1. SarahDecember 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM

      I sure did! Both the hubs and I went there and so did our siblings We're HUGE Jayhawk fans! :)

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  23. MeganDecember 1, 2012 at 10:31 AM

    You have some great ornaments! We just set up our first christmas tree and have no real sentimental ornaments, except for the wedding one I made with a shredded invitation! I am hoping to start collecting ones from travel, but that would involve us traveling! :)

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  24. MegDecember 3, 2012 at 8:09 AM

    Wow I love your blog and this idea!! When I get home from vacation I will definitely have to post this one. Also, not sure if you are aware, but you are a "no reply" blogger so I can't reply to your comments.

    Thanks for stopping by my blog, can't wait to follow yours!

    Meg @ http://myborrowedheaven.blogspot.com/

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