On Saturday we finally bought our real Christmas tree. We have a large artificial one in the living room and a real one in our kitchen/family room area.
Here's Shera being crazy as the kids all play Christmas tree tag. You can guess what that means... They all run through the trees under the big white tent and play hide and tag. This is a yearly tradition for us to go here.
Here is Drew straightening up two trees that Shera knocked over!
Jeff, Drew, and Holly voted yes for this tree and so we got it!
Shera and I wanted this tree, but it was too big for us. The owner of this lot is Phil from Oregon. He cut this tree down himself from his garden. It was shading his flowers too much. It is actually a beautiful 20 year old redwood tree. It had a gorgeous look about it - with wispy loose branches and perfect shape! It was also the first time he had ever brought a redwood down to sell.
It was pouring rain on Saturday, but we were on a mission to get this done. We had to take two cars to get there since we don't have our Suburban anymore. :(
On Saturday we finally bought our real Christmas tree. We have a large artificial one in the living room and a real one in our kitchen/family room area.
Here's Shera being crazy as the kids all play Christmas tree tag. You can guess what that means... They all run through the trees under the big white tent and play hide and tag. This is a yearly tradition for us to go here.
Here is Drew straightening up two trees that Shera knocked over!
Jeff, Drew, and Holly voted yes for this tree and so we got it!
Shera and I wanted this tree, but it was too big for us. The owner of this lot is Phil from Oregon. He cut this tree down himself from his garden. It was shading his flowers too much. It is actually a beautiful 20 year old redwood tree. It had a gorgeous look about it - with wispy loose branches and perfect shape! It was also the first time he had ever brought a redwood down to sell.
It was pouring rain on Saturday, but we were on a mission to get this done. We had to take two cars to get there since we don't have our Suburban anymore. :(
2 comments:
What a fun tradition! Our family always used to play games in the trees when we were kids too! It's the only thing I miss about not doing a real tree at MY house. I sure love the easy clean up though!
We got a hand-me-down Christmas tree from my mom this year. Mike and Lauren were both a little sad to not be able to go 'shop' for a real one this year....but I am not the least bit sad that I don't have to vacuum up pine needles everyday this month! :) And it's beautiful, nonetheless.
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