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Location: Here | Share your favorite Christmas Memory or tradition. We will draw Sunday night for a free pair of CuHorse Quick Wraps. You can also share on our fb fan page for the drawing for a pair of CuHorse Bell Boots...  |
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Location: Kansas | I posted mine on facebook! |
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Blessed
Location: Here | hoofs_in_motion - 2014-12-19 2:38 PM I posted mine on facebook!
That one is for Bell Boots
This one is for Quick Wraps So you have to share again here |
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Location: Kansas |
Oooo! Mine is the sad poor mom story, I don't think I want to post that one on here...too ashamed  |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | Every Christmas eve, my parents would read me "The Night Before Christmas" as a bedtime story. We would set out milk and cookies for Santa, and put Jesus in the Manger.
In the morning, we would wake up, open gifts and have cinnamon rolls next to the fireplace before going to church. :) |
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Location: Oregon | My best Christmas memory is a toss up between:
When we used to board our horses at a public barn. We'd always "wrap" all the stalls like Christmas presents, and hung stockings for all the horses. And by Christmas morning, many of the horses in the barn had given other horses little gifts in their stockings. We also would always have a small Christmas party and human gift exchange. Such fun times!
And the best gift I was ever given for Christmas. Our first horse had passed away earlier that year, and we'd cut off his tail, like most do when their horse passes away. Mom ended up making both my sister and me each 2 shoo-fly's out of his tail. Each of them had his tail as the main part, and then as the part that kinda holds it around the metal loop, she wove each of our current horses' tails with our first horse's tail. One of my shoo-flys is hanging from the rear view mirror of my truck so that every barrel race I go to he's with me, and the other one is hanging in my room until I find something else to do with it.
Edited by barrelchick617 2014-12-19 4:42 PM
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Location: Here | hoofs_in_motion - 2014-12-19 2:40 PM Oooo! Mine is the sad poor mom story, I don't think I want to post that one on here...too ashamed
Share another one... I know you have several |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | My favorite Christmas memory is my dad hooking up one of his teams of Belgians and going on a sleigh ride. My brother and I would tie a scoop shovel to the sled and take turns going for a ride. Dad was a wild man and would get the team at a full gallop hitting all the bumps he could and taking as sharp of turns as possible to give us the wildest ride he could. Such simple things, but sure makes for great memories and makes me miss my dad.  |
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Location: Kansas | I do remember, when I was a young girl....my grandpa always took my sister and I to church on christmas eve evening. We loved the time we got to spend with him! And after church, we always went out for dinner. I sure do miss the time I had with my grandpa, and I've started that same tradition with my daughter |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | My favorite Christmas was after I had worked a week straight of 12 hour night shifts in the ER and finally had off Christmas morning. My bed never felt better and I slept like a baby. |
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| My most favorite Christmas tradition is our whole family gets together on Christmas Eve and we let the kids open gifts while listening to a Christmas album (yep mom and dad still have a record player). We eat pizza and have a blast catching up on things we have missed throughout the year. Then on Christmas day we spend the mornings with our families then everyone heads to dad and mom's house for a Christmas feast (makes Thanksgiving look like an ordinary day). :) We get fat, drink a few hot Totti's, and play games. I love the traditions my family has and I am extremely lucky amid thankful for each and every one I get to spend with them. Life is short enjoy every minute and everybody. |
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One of my most favorite memories has to be when we sit down to eat as a family on Christmas day. The food is always terrific - my mom pulls out all the stops! After all us kids got big and old and in college, she started the drink tradition. She pulls out a bartending bible, randomly flips it open and points to a recipe without looking. And that drink gets made in mass quantity to be consumed all day! Christmas is always joyous and fun in our family!  |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | My favorite tradition even to this day (I am almost 30) is all us girls ( I have 3 sisters) would all sleep in my moms room on Christmas Eve. We would all be so wound tight that we couldn't sleep. Poor Santa (mom) had to sleep on the couch. None of us could leave the room unless we were all ready to go out. If we had to use the restroom mom would lead us out and make sure our eyes were closed. |
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Location: Memphis, TN | When my husband and I got married I quickly became the "horrible" woman at Christmas Eve. We did our first Christmas trying to entertain EVERY side of the family and it was insane. The next Christmas we also had a 6 month old daughter and I felt the need to make our own Christmas tradition. I put my foot down and told my family AND my husbands family that Christmas Eve was OUR time. Boy did that ruffle feathers but my MIL actually stood up for us and everyone eventually came to grips with it. Now we have our special night preparing for "Santa" and not driving all over town. We go to our church service, come home and eat dinner, get in our pjs, start Christmas movies, bake cookies, and make reindeer food that we throw out in the yard. We do typically have one person each year who tries to schedule a family deal on Christmas Eve and I have to be the bad guy again but overall it became something that everyone needed and they have actually thanked me for doing it. Each Christmas Eve is such a magical time watching my kids and their excitement. As I posted on the facebook thread, it's not about me anymore and my kids Christmas memories are so much better than any I can think of on my own! |
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Location: Texas | We always enjoy a normal Christmas, Twas the Night before Christmas Story, read the real story out of the Bible, milk and cookies for Santa, but my favorite part is making a birthday cake and singing happy birthday to Jesus. That's my family's special tradition. It's even more special because my kids thought up the idea. |
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Location: Kentucky | I got my first "real" barrel racing saddle on Christmas Day when I was 12 years old. It was an NBHA Circle Y. 16 years later, I am still competing in it!! |
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Location: ND | We always get together with my mom's family for Christmas Eve. Last year my aunt had me do a surprise drawing for my uncle of his beloved bird dog. I'll never forget the happiness & tears when he opened that piece. It was the first time she'd managed to totally surprise him.....this year I'm almost dreading Christmas. My uncle passed away unexpectedly a month ago. I'm now working on a drawing of him for my family. |
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Location: Here | SaraJean - 2014-12-19 3:41 PM We always get together with my mom's family for Christmas Eve. Last year my aunt had me do a surprise drawing for my uncle of his beloved bird dog. I'll never forget the happiness & tears when he opened that piece. It was the first time she'd managed to totally surprise him.....this year I'm almost dreading Christmas. My uncle passed away unexpectedly a month ago. I'm now working on a drawing of him for my family.
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Location: Okla | My son was 4 yrs old and had spend Christmas Eve with his Grannie. She brought him home Christmas morning, they walked in the door and a saddled pony was standing next to the Christmas tree in the living room. The first words out of his mouth were "I didn't ask Santa for a pony" |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Mines a toss up...either the year I didnt' get anything for Christmas, I was 14 and devastated at the time, got a ring from my older sister, black hills gold shaped in a horseshoe and my stocking with socks and underwear and oranges that Santa left every year. I was really hurt but in our family you do not complain or whine, the rule is if you are doing things right people will notice without you having to mention it so I figured I had done something and just wasn't aware of it yet. Two months later was my 15th birthday, had a HS rodeo and as a friend and I were warming our horses up she asked me how I liked my Christmas gift...told her I didn't get one. She took off to get her other horse, and a few minutes later I saw my mom waving me over from the stands. Walked over on Ginger and mom asked me if I wanted to know what my birthday present was, I just shrugged my shoulders, wasn't expecting much seeing as Christmas had been a bust. Mom put her hand on Ginger's neck and said Happy Birthday...took me a few minutes to realize what she meant. The kid I leased Ginger from had decided to sell her, mom had bought her for me but couldn't come up with the money all at once and had made payments on her,didnt' get her paid off in time for Christmas so she became my Christmas/Birthday present. It suddenly became the Best Christmas EVER!!!! LOL!!! Had that little mare until I had to have her put down when we were both 33 years old. She was one of those horses that people still talk about and she's been gone 16 years, just a true gem, half QH half Arab. The only time she was tied to the trailer was during Rough Stock events, the guys used her to steer wrestle off of too.
My Christmas that might compete with that actually came on November 19th this year when the vets were able to successfully remove CC's bladder stone and the ultrasounds showed her kidney's were functioning!!!! This girl doesn't need anything else..probably EVER, LOL!!! |
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