Before I begin, I wanted to take a brief moment to thank you all for your very sweet, kind and caring comments left on my previous Most Treasured Ornaments posts. These ornaments mean the world to my family and me and they bring so much joy to us...My sole intentions for sharing them was to share a bit of that joy with you all.
Thank you.
And now on to the next 4 ornaments.
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2002
This was our daughter's first year in a private school. Wow! Do you know how expensive that was? Needless to say she was only there for two years.
And on the other side I displayed hubby's and my very first voting ballot stubs and "I Voted" stickers. It was the very first election we participated in right after becoming U.S. Citizens.
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2003
May 22, 2003
Hubby and I celebrated our 10th year anniversary.
The traditional gift for a 10th year anniversary is tin, and to represent this, I placed this little mint tin cover in the ornament.
Here's a closer look.
On the other side we commemorated our daughter's First Communion.
Upon closer inspection you'll see a picture of my beautiful daughter in the background, a medal and a little prayer. It might be a little difficult to read, so here is what it says:Dear Jesus,
May this medal be a remainder of your love for me. Welcome to my heart and thank you for your many blessings. Let me stay close to you always. Help me to serve you by loving others as you love me. This is my pledge to you on this very special day.
Briana
For this year I made a multi-faceted paper ornament out of pictures, ticket stubs and print outs of a few events that happened that year. It might be a little difficult to see what it looks like, so I'll show you a picture (below) to give you an idea. Remember these? I remember making them in elementary school.
(picture courtesy of twopeasinabucket. com)
This was the year my daughter had her very first Piano Recital. It was also the year the much anticipated movie "A Series of Unfortunate Events" released. My daughter love, love, love the books so watching the movie was a big deal for her.
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2005
And for our last ornament for today we have our super, fun trip to The Grand Canyon which we took during Easter Break that year.
It was our very first time there! 
Up to that day, my family and I had never ever seen it snow. This was such a unexpected and wonderful surprise for us. This made me want a White Christmas even more. We had so much fun.
See us all in the snow? That extra little person in the middle is my daughter's best friend since kinder. He is just like family to us so we let him tag along. We love you and miss you Miguel.
And this little key that hangs on the ornament represents the beginning of some major home improvements we started that year.
Well there you have it, 4 more of our Most Treasured Ornaments. I will be doing two more posting to finish up. This coming Friday will be the last three ornaments I've made up to 2008 and the week of Christmas I will be sharing our Christmas ornament for this year...which I'm still working on. Can't wait to show you all. Keep checking back.
Thank you all for stopping by today. Hope you enjoyed your visit.
Wishing everyone a wonderful day.
Blessings.
Hugs and Kisses,
I was using my awesome Cricut Machine to cut out some snowflake shapes for our ornament when I got this new inspiration. 
Love my Cricut!
I cut three sets of the snowflakes and their shadows.
I also cut out the word "JOY" in this pretty red paper.
I then glued the snowflake to its shadow and a letter to each completed snowflake.
My little Christmas Joy Garland
So what do you think?
