Christmas Traditions Photo & Story Contest

Christmas Traditions Photo and Story Contest

Submit your favorite Christmas tree photo and story of your family’s Christmas traditions, including which location you purchased your Wahmhoff Farms Christmas tree from. The winner will receive a FREE Christmas tree ($75 value) for the following year and will be featured in our retail flyer next November, as well as be featured on our Facebook page. The Runner-Up will receive a FREE Christmas tree ($50 value)! Share your story! Send your photo and story to ctstory@mitrees.com (Put “Christmas Contest” in the subject line) or mail your entry to Wahmhoff Farms Nursery, 11121 M-40 Hwy, Gobles, MI 49055.

*Disclaimer: all photos become the property of Wahmhoff Farms.

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

Use of winner’s name: By entering, each entrant grants permission, without further compensation, to Sponsor and its agents and licensees, to use the entrant’s name, voice, photograph, likeness and biographical material for broadcast and promotional purposes in connection with the Contest on a worldwide basis, and in all forms of media, in perpetuity, without further compensation.

2024 Winners

Grand Prize Winner 2024

Congratulations to our Christmas Traditions Contest $75 Grand Prize Winner: The Aldrich Family

    
My name is Nicole and my family moved to Paw Paw when I was 12 years old. That is when my parents started the tradition of getting our Christmas tree from your farm. I’m now 43.
My family has been through a lot in the last 30 years, but somehow we’ve managed to keep this tradition a constant (Even my dad goes). My brothers and I all have children of our own now. We
once all debated over that one perfect tree and now we are all finding that special tree for our own households. Some years we are bickering and others we’re singing Christmas carols as we cruise around the fields. We’ve had
snowball fights and popcorn wars. We’ve laughed and we’ve cried. Seeing Santa, his reindeer, riding on a horse drawn wagon, have all been precious memories. My younger kids love petting the animals. We’ve used pictures
from there many times throughout the years for Christmas cards. I’m blessed to have such amazing memories as a child, and then to carry on these experiences with my children and my brothers’ children. This year my youngest brother got to bring his daughter for the first time. Thank you for being such a HUGE part of my family!!! Forever Grateful, Nicole

Runner Up 2024

$50 Runner-Up: The Niemczak Family

We live across the country from family, so for us traditions mean a lot to help make the holiday season special when it doesn’t include visiting cousins or making cookies with Grandma! We have three favorite traditions that we never miss: The first is we make homemade letters of holiday wishes that we deliver to the homeless the week before Christmas with donuts and coffee. It’s our chance to spread love and cheer to others who might also not get the chance to spend the holiday with family. Second, we make homemade kolaches (the Texan version, better known as klobasnek) and leave those out for Santa instead of cookies. It’s a nod to our Texan Czech roots but
Santa has also let us know that he likes the switch up! 😉 Lastly and by far our favorite is visiting the Christmas tree farm the weekend after Thanksgiving to hunt the perfect tree. Our favorite years are the years it’s snowing, adding to the magic of it all. We drive to the Gobles farm and take our find all the way back to Chicago! We look forward to the holiday season every year because of these traditions and are so thankful to have Wahmhoff Farms to visit. Wishing you all the happiest of holidays!!
Love, The Niemczak Family
(Matt, Autumn, Sloane, Shep and Luna)

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