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Thursday, December 12, 2013

I've gathered the 31 most read and pinned ideas on Moore Minutes in one spot as an easy resource. So here you go! (By the way, this post is better for new readers!) I haven't been blogging as often this year, but I'm still hoping to share some new ideas with you this season,

but just.in.case. I don't

An abundance of holiday ideas...here you go.

Gifts to Give

This post is of things I made at home FOUR made at home holiday gifts:
sugared cranberries
hot chocolate on a stick
soap baskets
homemade granola jars

Moore gifts I made at home sweet home to give out:

Peppermint Cream Dip

Classroom party treats: Snack Mix Snow

These smelled delicious!
Mulling Spice Packs

Sugar Cookie Making Kits

How to pack a festive shipping box for the holidays

Cookies of Christmas

archives of our family's favorite holiday cookies

I made these cuties for school events...

Snowball Tree cookies

A collection of our familys' favorites through the years,

Cookie Classics:

Desserts and Treats of the season

We have a lot of fun in the kitchen traditions...

gumdrop snowflakes

A classic Southern Staple:

Hummingbird Cake

My mom's snowflake white chocolate cake

Not your normal cheese ball...a SWEET cheese ornament ball

Peppermint Ice Cream Hot Cocoa

Holiday Feasts

Christmas morning breakfast ideas

Fruit and Veggie Wreaths

Setting the table...

Four Christmas Dinner Menus

Experiences and Adventures of the holidays

Find a nearby magical town to escape to for the weekend to kickoff your Christmas spirit!

celebrating winter

Magical night in Aspen, Colorado

Holiday bucket list:

A one horse open sleigh ride!

Advent Calendar and Countdowns

Lots of different advent and countdown ideas through the years...with the sexy romantic one being the most popular. Who knew.

Decking the Halls

Make your own pom pom garlands and snowballs

Reader's favorite mantel was this Merry Little Mantel:

And glittered Christmas Village Mantel

Nature's Decor

Comfort Christmas

One of my first big knitting projects turned into an advent stocking!

Gingerbread Kitchen

Scenes of Christmas at my parent's home sweet home

Their Christmas Village in a tree has been the MOST pinned idea from my blog! It's a big favorite.

Have fun

making merry

and

Happy Christmastime!

Grandpa gave me the magic...
If you need even more,
here you go. ;)

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Monday, December 9, 2013

A December Sunday at the Christmas Tree Farm

photo via @mooreminutes instagram

Let's do a classic

holiday bucket list

day.

For another holiday bucket list idea,

read about our sleigh ride in Aspen!

We grabbed a beautiful December Sunday and spent our time at the Christmas tree farm! It was all things festive, all things that I was wishing for! It's fun to kick off December with some classic winter recreating.

Covered Bridge Ranch is sprawled on a hill in the middle of Colorado country.

It is absolutely peaceful and oh so pretty in every way.

Gentle and mighty Clydesdales...

Merry Trees

They have a fresh wreath making barn too, super cute!

Cameron, warming up with apple cider inside the wreath-making barn.

We set off from the ranch to search for trees!

Loaded up on the hay ride and into the trees...

We mazed our way around rows of evergreens, looking for the perfect one to take home.

Pinecones, snowboots, mitten hand-holding, and tree-hugging...

Dakotah popped Cameron with an icy cold snowball and he is about to get it back...even though he doesn't know it yet...

He asked for it...

Okay, back to the peaceful tree search...

The gold sun, the blue skies, the green trees, the white snow made an ideal winter day out.

Oh, that's the one. The lil blue. Let's take him home. Of all the trees, he's the one.

The guys all took turns cutting it down.

Chris carrying our lil blue,

the way he carries everything. ;)

(which makes me laugh, always)

Then we waited for a hay wagon to round the bend to pick us up.

Trees loaded and ready to ride!

Winding our way back to the ranch.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the tree team prepared and bagged our tree for transport home. Lines of trees piled on cars, ready to find new holiday homes.