Christmas Decorating

There was a bit of excitement back at the heifer barn today involving the farm girls, the farmer, and a herd of excited heifers .....oh yeah and an open gate....but since I wasn't back there with the camera I won't post about that today.  ahem.
On a calmer note, we've been decorating the farmhouse for the Christmas season so I thought I would share a few pictures.  

The runner sled and the toboggan was stored up in the milking barn.  I dusted them off and used them as part of our decorating.  They were used a generation ago for farm kids to go sledding with in the snow.

We know that Jesus wasn't born this time of year but in the springtime.  But, we still like to reflect on the greatest gift of all that was sent to us in a manger long ago.

 While we were in Kentucky, we chopped down a cedar tree and brought it home for a Christmas tree.  Cedar trees grow abundantly in Kentucky and they smell so good.  Hannah and Faith even popped popcorn and strung it around the tree.
  " So I remember one day, it was around Christmas time... How many remembers going and getting the old cedar tree, and pop popcorn and string up around the old Christmas tree? Do you remember that? Well, my, my. I'm not the only country boy here, am I? So they'd string this old popcorn around the Christmas tree, and mom had some left over, so she give it to my brother and I, the one next to me, in a little half-a-gallon syrup bucket. And we'd took it to school, and I'd... We'd set it out in the cloak room, and that was something rare." Bro. Branham 53-1108a