Check our some recent articles and posts from our blog.
2025 Meister Christas
At 4:50 am I looked out the sliding glass door to see how much snow we got overnight and first thought we must have left a light on inside Mark's car then to my shock saw another car parked behind Mark's car. I couldn't imagine who would be at our house at that time in the morning or why they parked there. I know the picture below is dark but it took me a few moments to figure out what I was looking at.
Mike put a light up on his new barn. That was shining on Mark's car which caused a shadow.
The snow falling last night didn't amount to much at all. It was cold and stayed cold all day. Joan joined Diane and I on a short walk over to her house. Bethany and Bill's family had arrived last night and she checked in with them then walked back to mom's and quit as she wanted to take the breakfast over to them. Right after breakfast I drove to Sam's club to pick up 2 bags of ice plus a few other items that were needed for the reindeer dessert. That turned out pretty tasty and wasn't too hard to make. I made a double batch. 
The coat room has plenty of wall space to hang an abundance of them. The Meister Christmas party was supposed to start at 6:00 pm and I had the party potatoes, green beans and reindeer dessert ready by 5:00 pm. Mark left to pick up the 200 pieces of fried chicken from Kroger. When I was loading the food into the car it started snowing and by the time the party was over all of the cars were covered with a thick 4 inches of wet heavy snow. We were expecting 150 of the family but 18 ended up cancelling either the weather or a sick child. We had 132 people come. Below are a few pictures. 
Above is the first great great grandchild Caroline and below is the youngest grand daughter Eden.
Below we are getting ready for the singing.
Above Brian is showing Joey his new motorcycle and below Dexter is opening his gift from great grandma.
Ruby is helping in the picture below.
Diane and Mike had the best Christmas sweaters, below is just Diane but if you watch the singing video you will see both of them out shining the crowd.
Daisy wanted to use the bouncy house.
We had the great grandchildren open their gifts at the table to make it easier for mom to see what she bought for them.
Rachel led the singing before the Christmas story.
Below Spark is attempting to read the Christmas story. The tradition is the kids have to correct him when he makes a mistake. It is always the BEST part of the Meister Christmas.
When it came time for mom to open her gifts three of the great granddaughters were fascinated.
Nancy's gifts came next and wow was she excited.
Everyone helped clean up and put the chairs and tables away. Joan needed to drive her van into the barn, it was snowing so hard we didn't want to take mom outside. She can not get her nose wet AT ALL.
The last two greats were having so much fun with the horses and bouncy house.
By the time I drove home it was 10:00 pm and the car was COVERED with snow. Today we really had a WONDERFUL Christmas celebration. I'm so very thankful for this amazing family and feel so blessed as I head to bed!
