Your "theme" Christmas tree?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by summer_gphib

We have a real Fraser Fir, with a lot of sentimental ornaments. We also have red and green oraments mingled with all of the old meaningful ones.

That's us, too. My parents started the tradition with us of buying an ornament whenever we went on vacation somewhere. When I was grown up, I had a "starter set" of the ornaments I had gotten on trips. My wife and I started the same tradition on our honeymoon.

I'd say that at least 75% of our ornaments are either from trips or there's some other sentimental/historical connection. (The rest are ornaments the kids made or the like -- we have no glass balls or anything similar, and we definitely don't try to stick to any kind of color scheme. We like variety.) It makes decorating the tree turn into a time to remember fun places we've been and things we've done over the years.

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

That's us, too. My parents started the tradition with us of buying an ornament whenever we went on vacation somewhere. When I was grown up, I had a "starter set" of the ornaments I had gotten on trips. My wife and I started the same tradition on our honeymoon.

Same here. We have a real Frazier Fur with only silver and red ornaments, white lights and silver and red ribbon. Even our sentimental ornaments(travel, wedding, kids' first Christmas, major life event souvenirs, etc) are in that scheme.

My kids are still too young (24 months and 1 month) this year, but I have told my husband that once they start making crafts we are getting a second tree for those. I am sure that I will cherish their pipe cleaner, cotton ball, and clothes-pin art, but I will cherish it more on its own tree. Away from mine.

[AGDee]

At this point, my kids have accumulated so many ornaments of their own that I barely have any plain round bulbs on the tree. When they move out and take their ornaments with them, I will, essentially, have an Alpha Gam tree. I have lots of squirrel ornaments, several gold plated cut out ornaments engraved with years (Alpha Gam ornaments), one ornament with the coat of arms on it, etc. Since my bulbs are all red/gold and green, it will be quite easy to just have an Alpha Gam tree!