I absolutely love living on the farm! Since we moved to the farm in sept. I have decided to have all the family gatherings I wasn't able to have at my little house before we moved. And I am constantly coming up with ideas and planning gatherings in my head! LOL

We had our first gathering that I fondly called "The First Annual Fall Family Gathering On The Farm" LOL back in october. It was the same weekend that our little town had the Chitlin' Hoedown, planned that way so everyone could go and enjoy the arts and crafts, food, and parade of the Hoedown. That was one way of providing entertainment without having to plan it myself! LOL But here on the farm we had hayrides, horserides, 4-wheeling, fishing, farm tours, and pumpkin carving and caramel apple making. Of course we had a big dinner also. It turned out to be a big success!

It was to cold for anything in the winter, maybe this year I will have thanksgiving here for a winter gathering. But now that spring is coming I have already made out the invites to my Spring Fling!!!!

The Spring Fling menu will be a lite and easy dinner which will include: Baked ham, grilled chicken fingers on a stick, spicy shrimp, broccoli salad, fruit salad, coleslaw, grilled corn on the cob, rolls, mom's coconut cake, and cherry pie.  The entertainment will include fishing(a favorite here), 4-wheeling(another favorite), horseshoes, and a pie eating contest(wal-mart sells these tiny little pies in like 5 flavors that I love and I am gonna surprise the pie eating contestants with these little pies for the contest)lol and the biggie event is gonna be a scavenger hunt....they will have to find a list of things found on a farm. I will make a scavenger hunt kit for each "team" and send them on thier way.....I will have a prize for the winners but have not decided what it will be yet.  I have also been toying with the idea of having a scrapbook station so each family could create a scrapbook page of the day to take home with them...that might be something I do for every gathering from now on. Just to help keep the memories alive!LOL

While planning the Spring Fling, dh and I were walking around one of the lakes and I started saying how it would be a good setting for a summer gathering......sooooooo....the Fourth Of July Campout At The Lake was born! LOL  So now I am also planning the summer gathering! LOL  This one will include camping for the whloe weekend and cooking over the open fire using our cast iron cookware, more fishing, swimming, tubing, canoeing, campfires with smores, and fireworks. I will have to wait on the menus for this one, I am getting ahead of myself! LOL 

I just love having the gatherings and being able to share the farm with family and friends. I never had the space to have them before and always wanted to be able to.....guess I am making up for lost time now! LOL

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

Nancy

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Posted by a1health

Sounds like fun!
Have a blessed week.
~Farrah

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