2010 Christmas Chickens

These 2 girls were born Christmas day 2010, and their names are Lucky & Sweetie. They will get to live out their lives here until they past of old age because they were born Christmas.Sorry the photos are not the best but these girl just stand still very long.

This is Lucky

This is Sweetie

These 2 girls almost always stick together when they are out.

This is them at 10 days old with mom & their brothers.

This was Lucky an hour after I found and got her warmed up.

      She had gotten pushed out the nest, but a couple hours on a heating pad she was alright and was put back under mom. That is how she got her name Lucky,  There was a couple inches of snow on the ground when she was hatched and I found her before she froze. Sweetie got her name from a sweet friend in Germany when I was asking friends who would like to give my Christmas chickens names.  I am sorry to say that the 3 roosters had to go, I already had a rooster who was a sweet gift from my friend Penny. He was a real sweet heart.    So my step-son took care of them because I just couldn't do them. I spent way to much time with them. I really hate it when I get more rooster then hens when I let the hens hatch out a few eggs. 
That is part of having chickens, you got to take a few roo's to get a few hens.
Happy Chicken keeping my friends.                                     

Christmas Gifts & Thanks

I had thought about posting photos of the gifts we have been receiving.  But that just didn't fill right to me because it not about the gifts, it is more about the special people who gave the gifts. That they thought about our friendship and how much we all care for each other. So I am going to make this a post to them. I want to tell them, Thank you very much for your friendship and all the love you have shared with us this Christmas and threw out the year.  

Kristin & Mike

  Penny & Bernie

  Karen & Danny

  DeAnna & David 

  Jeremy & JB 

  Julie & Spanny 

 Josh T.

  Andy H. 
Mom Dot
Wayne A.
Missy B & Mike Z.

May God bless each and everyone of you. And may you have the best and Merry Christmas ever.

We also wish you a great New Years. 

From  Charlotte & T.

Christmas 2011

I am having a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit this year. It seem like the stores were already getting out stuff for Christmas right after Halloween here. And then a few days before Thanksgiving I was already seeing Christmas tree stands going up with trees for sale and that just didn't fill right to me. So I am last getting my tree up, I usually put ours up 2 weeks before Christmas and but was having a hard time decorating it this year. Finely got it done after I kind fell into the it a couple times, I spent a couple days decorating it. I did a more simple tree this year with no lights and lots of little red bows.

Love the Christmas cards we got this year, They make it Christmas and for me each is a gift in its self. I so look fore ward to the cards they remind me of my childhood. The one thing I so enjoyed doing with my mom. We would spend a day doing ours cards up to mail out. And she let me open each 1 we got back and put it on our wall of cards. And I so love all the cards we get this time of year. I am one of those people who keeps my cards from year to year. They are all very special to me, I have a couple boxes of past cards put up.  The card below was a very special card I got, it teared me up big time and the Lady got some big hugs from me.

Karen, bless your sweet heart

And now on to some of the gifts I will be giving this year to go with the quarts of green beans that I canned from this years garden. I find gifts of food like these mean a lot to our family, because they come from the heart.

Friendship cakes

The first starting of fudge and I still have a couple more batches to make.

Man does it take a lots of stirring and a long time to reach temp.

And then on to cooling down time in the fridge before cutting.

1 down and a couple more to make.

I remember my mom only made this Hershey's cocoa fudge at Christmas time and my little sister & I am trying to keep that tradition going. And if we wanted walnuts in it my granddad would find and bring us nuts to shell out for it. I remember busting my fingers with the hammer more then the walnuts.  I think we were given the nuts more to keep us out from under foot while she made the fudge.  She made another candy from egg whites, sugar and vanilla she called sea-foam but I never got that recipe from her because she lost it in 1 of their moves. I so loved that candy and have not been able to find that recipe yet. I loved how it seem to melt in your mouth.   

         Wishing you all many Blessing in your celebrate of the season, from us to you

        Merry Christmas &  Happy New Year.

Christmas Past

I thought I would share some photos of our past Christmas trees & some of the special ornaments that go on to the tree each year. This tree was all I ask for the first Christmas in our new place, so I would be able to use my special ornaments.  I will not be putting up our tree for this year for at less a week or so yet but want to share these for now.

2006

2007

2008

                                                                 2009 

This are the in memory ornaments for my son & daughter 

This one is in memory for pops

This one was from my friend Kelly

From my mom's friend Scott

The very first 1 my wonder man brought for me.

These were from my grandma

Past down to me from my mom, I can remember them being on our tree as a kid

This was from pops tree

The wooden ones were a gift for my kids

1 of the wooden clocks

Wooden toys

Old St. Nick

I love this Santa

This bench was from our little friend Kim

I love hummingbirds & had to have the set of 6 I got 10 years ago.

The White 1 another handed down from my mom.

Some of my family

 My mom who always tried to make Christmas special just like she was with lots of love,hugs and togetherness time. 
To me it does not matter if there is anything under the tree at all. 
Only that it is up and I can remember those I love and the times we spent together with family & friends those are the best gifts in life.