Around The World For Christmas: Calgary, Canada

This was the year that we started designing / decorating Christmas ornaments for our tree. Since we had just celebrated our wedding, we naturally used photos from the #KCFairyTale as the base of our ornaments. Little did we know that one year later, in Berlin, this would be the only tradition we did before jetting off to Scotland.

Both as an ode to our first home, and as a testament to us finally spending the holidays in our home city, the plans that year were very house focused. We hosted our first #KCWhiteChristmas function that year to huge success! We also had my entire family over for a sit down German Christmas meal, and most of all, we spent time cuddling in our big cozy bed.

On the helms of our wedding and honeymoon, Christmas that year was very much not about opening gifts and instead about making memories. Nonetheless, I had to get Monika to unwrap something, so I actually wrote out our vows to each other on canvas, and installed them above our bedside tables. It made the perfect gift, and was so affordable (as it was a total DIY project!).