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This was the ornament that the wife and I got for our first Christmas together (2002). It was a cute little ornament with two penguins on it.
The significance of it was that I once told her that she was my penguin, and explained how when penguins mated, they mated for life.
Seeing this ornament every year...

Saturday evening, we took the kids up to The Christmas Village in Pennsylvania to see the lights, and of course, Santa.
Madelyn loved looking in all of the windows to the village houses.
And they all got to see Santa.
Madelyn had been the most excited all day and kept going through her list to tell Santa: I...

Annual tradition in our household is to have a live Christmas tree for the holidays. Friday, still stuffed from our Thanksgiving dinner, we headed out with the kids to find this years victim.
Madelyn was convinced that one her size would be perfect:
We ultimately decided on one just a tad bigger
He shall henceforth be known as...