Winter Wonderland

We are in full swing for Christmas around here. We started our advent calendars. This year The advent calendars I picked for the kids were a new ornament each day. It has been exciting to see the new ornaments each day. Zeppelin and Oreo have advent calendars too. Last year we got Zeppelin one and he shredded it getting all the treats out after the first day when we we’re not home. I told him this year that he needed to be patient and get a treat each day. Yes, I talk to my animals like they are humans. Each day he will sit by the office Christmas tree and wait for us to do advent calendars, he even likes Oreos advent calendar too.

There was a gully washer of a rain storm at the farm yesterday. Unfortunately, when we get big rains like this the neighbors ditch overflows right into the barn and floods our barn. I think we will need to put a dump truck full of dirt on that side of the barn with some plastic barrier down to try to eliminate this problem. I definitely do not want this to continue to happen. In addition, after big rain storms like this some water seeps into the basement. We are open to suggestions if you have any, we have done extensive research and have a few solutions to try, but we are definitely not experts. Luckily, there are drains in the basement floor, but we would eventually like to finish out the basement.

Back to Christmas fun, we made our annual gingerbread houses. Most of the time everyone gets frustrated with getting the house not to fall apart putting them together with the frosting in the kits. So I cheated and hot glued them before we got started, it’s not like we eat them anyways. One day I want to make my own gingerbread from scratch to make a gingerbread house, but I am not that ambitious this year.

The town we live in has a good size Christmas light display in the park. We took a drive through it and then went to get some ice cream afterwards at Dairy Queen. I love doing things as a family for Christmas. My favorite things about Christmas is not what is under the tree (even though I am happy to announce I am done Christmas shopping and everything is wrapped, yay!) but it is making memories together. I love decorating cookies together, listening to Christmas music, playing games, gingerbread houses, decorating the house and watching Christmas movies together. I have tried to get Hunter to put up some outside lights at the farm but he just simply refuses. How rude! I even texted him this picture, because I do have shimmery light up chickens, but he still told me no.

This morning I woke up to pictures from my dad. The first snow of the a year at the farm! He said he wished he was in Florida and that I was at the farm. I think his excitement for the snow was not the same as mine! I wish I was there to take a bunch of pictures of the snow. They followed the snow plow into town when taking Hunter to work.

Hunter said all the snow melted off already but it sure was pretty! Today I did some holiday treat making because my spoiled Husband said we didn’t have any snacks in the house. I resolved that issue for him today. The girls helped with them today. Cheyenne was super excited to put on the Christmas sprinkles.

Chads mom used to make buckeyes every year at Christmas and I loved them. When she passed away I inherited some of her cook books. I looked through the cook books for her recipe but couldn’t find it. One is wayyy older than me and it was falling apart but I wanted to preserve it so after talking to my sister in law Carla, she suggested laminating the pages. I finished laminating them today and I am going to bind the pages into a new book.

I hope you and your family are having an amazing holiday season making memories together. One day all you will have are memories, so try to make as many as you can.