Tradition #1 - Emily grew up always having an artificial tree, I grew up always having a real Christmas tree. Round 1 goes to Matt. Not only did we have a real Christmas tree but we went to the tree farm, picked it out and cut it down ourselves. We had a blast, we went to a tree farm just north of Katy. We were definitely not the norm considering most people had 5 to 10 year old kids running around. But we definitely didn't care, we had a blast.
Tradition #2... Emily did the tree decoratng, hints why it looks awesome! I tried and lasted about 5 mins.
Tradition #3... Decorate the house with Christmas lights. This was not a tradition that we did growing up, but Emily did. It was fun... We bought an AWESOME wreath at Home Depot that is hanging in the front window.
Tradition #4... Sending out Christmas cards. Note to guys who aren't married yet... when you get married and have your first Christmas together THIS IS A BIG DEAL! We went back or forth with this one. Well, I guess it was more like Emily wanted to and my thoughts were "no one looks at those things." End result = Emily put them together and they were great! What did I learn from this? Christmas cards are a big deal!
Christmas #1 = SUCCESS!!!
