Special Ornaments

Every year we try to find an ornament for the kids that represents an interest that they had this past year. This year it was a deer for Dayton because he got his first buck this year and for Myah is was a Nemo fish because she loves the movie Finding Nemo. We went to Frankenmuth the other night for dinner at the beautiful Zenders and had the tradtional family style chicken dinner. I crave their noodles! It was so yummy, Myah was in heaven, eating like a big girl with a big fork and sitting at the table with us, she loved everything! We then went to the famous Bronner's and bought our ornaments for this year. Frankenmuth is a quaint town that is very German, at Christmas time it is just beautiful, Bronner's claims to be the worlds largest Christmas store, it is always a perfect place to get in the spirit! You can find ornaments from all around the world. They actually had a beautiful glass replica of the Great Wall of China! I really wanted that one! Here are a few of my favorites from the past few years. The first picture is my favorite, Mark's mom had this painted for us a few years ago it is of our house and we are on there too! The beautiful Santa holding a pocket watch was the ornament I bought the year we thought Myah was coming around Christmas time (ok, so she came in June, who would have thought that!). It was funny because that year Bronner's featured that ornament on all of their billboards so everywhere I went I would see that same Santa hanging onto the watch and I knew it was a sign, keep waiting, your time will come!