1/06/2015

December: Tree Hunt

This year held two firsts for us:
1. We had a REAL Christmas tree
2. We went and cut our REAL Christmas tree down at a farm 
I guess technically that is only one first since the second could not be accomplished without the first ;)

So, why a real Christmas tree when we have a perfectly fine, bug-free fake one downstairs? Well, this year my parents decided not to host our family Christmas party. I was very eager to take up their place (since it works so much better for our kids to just stay home and go to bed). However, in order for this to happen, two of my younger sisters insisted we needed a real tree - or we were not allowed to host. Oh, the joys of younger sisters :) 

So, on December 13th we headed to a farm right down our road to pick out our very first Christmas tree. The kids were excited, but not very picky. Any tree would do for them. We wandered around for a bit talking about the pros and cons of various trees ....  





And finally picked one we thought would be good. This is our picture of our tree - which makes it look very small. It was a good sized tree, though. 



Greg was all about cutting down the tree on his own - but only the "manly" way. Power tools. 


The two men of the family carrying the tree back to the truck. 


Yay for our first real Christmas tree cutting experience!

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