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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Christmas tradition

Looking back at my childhood there was one Christmas tradition that I remember as my favorite, cutting our own Christmas tree. We would load up as a family and drive to a near by Christmas tree farm. There we would walk up and down the rows of trees looking for the perfect tree. I can remember how all the really pretty trees always had red ribbons tied around a branch, this meant that the were already chosen and paid for by some over achieving family who came to the farm early in the season and marked their tree- planning to come back by closer to Christmas to cut it down :). Once we found the tree we wanted we Dad would cut the tree down and some of the farm helpers would come and drag the tree back out of the field using a 4-wheeler. While we were waiting for the tree to be shook and bagged we would enjoy some hot chocolate inside the gift shop.
  I was sharing this story with Mahlon earlier this week and we decided that cutting a real Christmas tree would be a great tradition to start with our little family! So, this afternoon we decided to take a trip to the family farm to get a real tree.

This was the tree that we decided on.
Chainsaw Randy! 
Supervise Mahlon!

 Mahlon packing the tree back out of the field to the truck.

And out of the truck onto the top of the Equinox :)
Insert Griswold jokes here!

Here is the tree after we got it home, and cut a few feet off of the bottom :)
It is not decorated yet because we wanted to wait for the branches to fall back into place after being tied down to the top of the Equinox before we started placing ornaments. However, I did go ahead and put the presents out :)
I know it's not the best looking tree, but it't the tradition that counts!
Pictures of the finished product to come soon! 

1 comment:

  1. I like the tree and boy don't those Farm Bureau vehicles come in handy sometimes!! lol

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