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    November 2020 Monthly Musings-Christmas

    November 27, 2020 - By 

    I’m late getting this post up, but I always enjoy Monthly Musings of others. Link up 1. Favorite Holiday Tradition I love all the Christmas activities, from going to cut down a Christmas tree and decorating the house to watching Christmas movies. Baking and making other goodies withe family. Christmas tree shopping: 2016 / 2015 / 2012 / 2011 / 2009 2. Must Have Holiday Wardrobe Staples I wear more red at Christmas. I love my tacky Christmas sweaters when it gets cold enough for those. 3. Favorite Holiday Recipe/Dish? I started the tradition of ham and fixings on Christmas…

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    Christmas Tree Tradition 2015

    December 18, 2015 - By 

    The last couple years for our Christmas tree shopping adventure we’ve been going to Gilbert Tree Farm. The place we used to go is just become super expensive and it would take us over an hour to get there. We love Virginia Pines, but those don’t seem to be selling like they used to, so less farms in our area our growing them. We’re really glad that Gilbert Farms still has them. It’s also been raining the last few years when we’ve gone, so that’s why you haven’t seen a post about it in a while. The weekend we went…

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    Oh Christmas Tree

    December 12, 2011 - By 

    This weekend has been a whirl-wind of activity! Nothing like the holidays. 🙂 Here’s pics of us getting our Christmas tree. This year we found a new Christmas tree farm, that actually had a decent selection of trees that we like, Virginia Pines. For those of you who celebrate Christmas, what kind of trees do they grow/sell in your area? How ’bout this one? Reminded me of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Or maybe this one? Love the cool sign… We found the one we want. Now Drew starts to cut it down. Then, after Rob tried it for awhile,…

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    Deck the Halls!

    December 6, 2009 - By 

    This weekend has been fashioned from traditions that we’ve started, enjoying each others company, searching for a tree, cutting it down at Lakeside Tree Farm. Then, heading to Columbus to eat at Chef Lee’s. Coming home to watch the SEC & ACC Championship games. The next day we finished decorating the tree and putting up the other decorations, enjoyed a warm fire, and watched our favorite Christmas movie of all time, Christmas Vacation! Looking forward to having a wonderful Christmas embraced by love and tradition.

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    Christmas Trees

    December 4, 2009 - By 

    I wrote three posts last year about my Christmas decorations. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Christmas trees 2000 2004 2005 2006 2009 Here’s a pic of Drew in our other house with the bare tree, waiting to decorate it.

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    Current Christmas Traditions

    November 30, 2009 - By 

    I wrote a few years ago about my traditions I had growing up, but not sure I’ve talked about the traditions we’ve started with our family. 1.) Choosing & cutting down a real Christmas tree ourselves Growing up, I never had a real tree. So now that I’ve been in Auburn for 14 Christmases every year we’ve had a real tree. We love the Virginia Pines, but there was a year that those were hard to find around here, so we settled for a Cyprus. We now have a place that we go to every year with a hayride through…