Holidays on the Farm: My favorite tree

Today, my farm wife friends and I are chatting about holidays on the farm. Who are these friends I speak of? We're farm wives and friends...all involved directly with agriculture who love to get together and chatting, telling our story of farm life on real, working, American farms and ranches. As I said, today, we're all about the holidays, so be sure to stop by and check out what the rest of the ladies have to say. You never know what you might find: recipes, decorations, special traditions, and the realities of farm life (as in, Santa doesn't magically drop off food to the critters so morning chores still have to be done bright and early!).









So today I want to share one of my favorite Christmas traditions: the great bid old rodeo-lovin' Christmas tree my mom puts up each year. I admit, the ladies in our family might be slightly addicted to Christmas ornaments and Christmas trees. This year in our home alone, each of the kids had their own tree along with my big Disney-themed tree....with lots of ornaments showing up in other places around the house and still more waiting patiently in their boxes for next year. My mom's house sported a tree of ornaments decorated by my kids, a 6' tree of sports ornaments for my brother, and the mammoth 10' rodeo tree:

 I love that it's so tall and ginormous and reaches all the way to the tippy top of the extra tall ceilings in our 100+ year old farm house...

 The big train puffing around the base is  a recent addition to designed to transport my boys to a wonderland. My handy dandy brother even made a base for the train tracks this year.

 My brother meticulously buys all of the Breyer Horse collectible ornaments for my mom each year....

 Horses, cowboys, and all other things western-y are the only ornaments allowed.

 That includes Santa cruising in his Mustang with his cowboy hat.

 I love the hand-painted ornaments, too.

 Especially the ones hand-made by family friends from far away.

 And Baby Boy loves the bucking bull ornaments, too....also acquired my my little brother as Christmas gifts for my mom.

 I love the bucking horses and rocking horses...

 And the Lone Ranger riding to the rescue on board Silver...

 And who doesn't love a good pair of chaps?

 Even Santa takes time out from the holiday bustle to two-step his missus around the Christmas tree.

 I hear Santa's pretty handy with a rope, too...

 And if the reindeer ever need a vacation, his team of horses is all ready to go....

 So we frolic and play, the cowboy way as we go walking in our winter wonderland.