Marcus and I were recently married so this last holiday was our first Christmas together! We had a fun time hunting down a “our first Christmas” ornament. There was not that big of selection as I originally thought there would be. The ones at Hallmark look like a little kid made it in Sunday school class with anticipation on giving it to their unenthusiastic parent. Anyway, we did end up getting ours from Lowe’s of all places. It was cute and metal which was what we were looking for so that it would be able to last over the years. Marcus and I over the years have accumulated mugs from different event of our lives. Some of them have been from places we have visited (Grand Canyon, Bahamas, Arizona) and others have been things that we like (police, Starbucks, caribou, snowmen). This Christmas I decided to get Marcus a large white Dunder Mifflin mug from his favorite TV show The Office. Well when we exchanged gifts we ended up adding 6 mugs to our growing collection. Having so many mugs just makes it harder to decide which one to pick to drink my morning coffee out of. My favorite one was with a Black cat from one of my favorite Japanese Animation movies, Kiki’s Delivery Service. Another part of our first Christmas that for me was nonnegotiable for me was we needed to get a real Christmas tree to be a complete Christmas. Marcus has had a fake tree his whole life and I just don't know how he could handle it. There is this tree farm about two hours north of our house that we were able to choose and cut down our own! Marcus cut ours down this year. I am so proud of him!
