Ornaments tradition:

Twinkling, sparkling, spinning, singing....we've got them all. Dave brought the tradition of keepsake ornaments from Hallmark to our family. Every year we go to Hallmark crown and choose an ornament. They are so clever and fun. This years picks:

• Dave picked a Peanuts ornament with snoopy and four or five woodstocks in a canoe
• Kirsten picked a soldier at his post, made entirely of plastic, but in the shape of a little gingerbread house (kind of looks like an outhouse) and he is made of gumdrops, and he is drumming away. It moves and makes drum sounds. So cute.
• Katelyn picked a retro toy-magic 8 ball that tells fortunes. Do you remember that toy?
• Scotty picked a cartoon style dog holding Christmas lights that sings "Bad to the Bone" when you push a button
• Kara Joy picked Hoops and YOYO, characters from Hallmark that she has loved ever since Sherrie forwarded me a happy Mother's Day ecard from Hoops and YO YO. In fact she has it starred as one of her favorite sites, and she goes there to watch the ecard previews. She loves them. On the ornament they have conversations of happy Christmas and such.
  
• Skyler picked a retro toy-Hotwheels car on one of those old orange plastic tracks they used to have

• Michael picked a Disney Little Einsteins rocketship with the characters inside.

So those are this year's picks! Last year I got a Madame Alexander doll ornament, Dave got a Peanut's choir ringing bells in a church, Katelyn got a fridge with Christmas dinner inside (it lights up), Scotty got Wile E. Coyote lighting the top of the tree with a star (in the position Tom Cruise takes dangling from a rope in Mission Impossible, Kara Joy got a rockem sockem robots toy ornament, and Skyler got a See n Say ornament and Michael got a naughty or nice meeter in a stocking ornament. Fun. Just a little look into that tradition for you.