We have had the farm for about 3 1/2 years now.
There have been lots of changes along the way. If any of you, reading this knows anything about me, then you will now my absolute favorite holiday is Christmas 🎅. And it took us 1,250 longgggg days to finally have Our First Christmas 🎄 at the Farm !!
Chad was able to get 2 weeks off from work 🎉
So we had the opportunity to go to the farm to work on a few projects and enjoy Christmas and New Year’s at the farm.
It was nice to see my parents and Hunter for Christmas this year, it’s been several years since we actually had Christmas together on Christmas Day🎄
We had fun opening up our gifts and having lots of laughs.
My favorite part of being at the farm for the holidays, was cooking a nice holiday meal in my ginormous kitchen.
Dad has made a lot of progress with building all the cabinets from scratch.
While making Christmas Dinner, I was able to fine tune the exact design and details I wanted for my kitchen island 🥰. The Island, is going to take a lot of work to complete. The top will be a solid hardwood butcher block. It is going to be almost 6 foot wide and 7 foot long once it’s completed
I can already envision myself, rolling out pie crust and cookie dough and playing board games around the island with the family.
It makes my heart warm just the thought of what memories are going to be made in this kitchen of my dreams !
We also had the chance to finally finish the upstairs bathroom!!
While we were in Kentucky we went to one of our favorite places in Morehead the Piddlers Mall. It’s a combination of crafts booths and antique booths. We had the chance to find a ton of antiques.
Most likely you have never heard of an international food market named Jungle Jims in Cincinnati Ohio. Unless you read my previous blog post about it. Last time I was at the farm I went to the first location. Chad has not been to either one, so this time I, decided to take him to the one I hadn’t been to, so it would be a new experience for us all! It is incredibly large and has different sections from countries around the world. We enjoyed going there for the day and getting out and about. If you never heard of it before, there is a ton of YouTube videos and TicTok videos about it (hence how we learned about it) this is where Hunter found several exotic items for us to try. Jungle Jims only has these 2 locations on different sides of Cincinnati. Both of these locations are very different from each other so it is a unique experience to see them both !
Not only does it sell food and other grocery stores products but it also has a ton of animatronic displays and other things to look at. All in all it is a fun little get away where you can spend all day long browsing. (actual it is bigger than 200,000 sq ft)
We decided while in Cincinnati, to try some grub that we don’t have in the huge metropolis of Childress TX. We found a neat little Mediterranean Cafe to try out. Chad and Hunter both had a lamb gyro. Cheyenne had tomato basil feta soup. I indulged myself with a wonderful salmon and Basmati rice dish. This cafe was delicious 🤤
We also had the chance to finish up most of the office space that connects the library to my sewing room
Still need to finish frame outs on the door ways & put permanent carpet down, but it is mostly finished. I choose to divide my sewing room into two separate rooms because I wanted to have different use for both sides of the room. I don’t sew all of the time so I didn’t want to have a huge room tied up just for that purpose. I have decided I want to find a pretty floral wall paper to put on the ceiling of my sewing 🧵 room. (Darn you Instagram and Pinterest)
Also we plan on making a huge crafting area in the basement for all of us to be able to utilize.
The entire time we were at the farm I was hoping that it would ⛄️ snow. Most days the weather was raining and warmer than normal. And just with my luck 🍀 it finally snowed for a few minutes about an hour before we had to leave to head back to Texas. ❄️
We made it home to Texas about 1 am and just so you know as soon as we hit Oklahoma Chad points out EVERY SINGLE BRAUMS!!! We don’t ever stop there on our trip but he just points them out just to be a pain in the butt….. I know you are surprised 😂. We can’t wait to go back again soon, so time to start planning out and saving for our next trip.
Pink Squirrel Farmstead 