Last Saturday, the 6th, we decided it was time to find our Christmas tree. This was a stupid idea. It was freeze-the-snot-in-your-nose-cold. Needless to say, we did NOT look very long, but came away with a nice fraiser fir. We drove about 30 miles north to a tree farm in Stacy. It was a good place -- they had tons and tons of trees. You could cut any tree you wanted, any size, for $34. They hand you map when you drive in so you know where you are and where to go for the kind of tree you want. The coolest thing was the tree shaker. I'll have to see if my video turned out. The sun was on its way down and I was filming from the wrong angle... However, I did get a few good photos! Logan was not pleased with our final tree selection. He wanted to go back to cut down one that Meg had thought was good. It was, but it was back a ways and I was too frozen to go back. He was MAD. He cried and I was trying to dry them off before they froze on his face. Did I say he was not happy? He was also extremely cold and not happy about that either, which made us laugh even more because he wanted to GO BACK for that one tree, instead of just be done with it and go to the car. I will add a video that I took later that night after we got home from our ward Christmas party. It was 5 hours later, and Logan was still MAD and RANTING about how much he hated our tree. Classic stuff in our house!
Megan, Logan and Dusty freezing but happy, well Logan was not, but 2 out 3 is pretty good!
Meg and Dusty. Dusty wanted to cut the tree down!
Dusty was the only one smart enough to wear snowpants, which was a good thing since he got down and dirty with the tree. Luckily the mud was frozen!
We told Dusty that since he got to cut the tree down, he had to drag it to the car. He was very willing and had a great time with his tree!
This is after the tree had been shaken and wrapped. They have this cool contraption that will hold 2 trees at a time, and then shakes them violently to get all the dead needles and other things out of the tree. It was way fun to watch. Even grumpy-boy Logan thought it was fun -- from the car anyway, he was too cold to get out again. Then they would wrap it if you wanted. This is the wrapping contraption you see in the photo.
Small but mighty!
Well, hello there, little reindeer, otherwise known as a caribu!
Here is the tree shaking in action!
Rich and I just watched the little videos of Logan ranting about the tree. Oh, my child! That is priceless video! I will post them tomorrow!
Megan, Logan and Dusty freezing but happy, well Logan was not, but 2 out 3 is pretty good!
Meg and Dusty. Dusty wanted to cut the tree down!
Dusty was the only one smart enough to wear snowpants, which was a good thing since he got down and dirty with the tree. Luckily the mud was frozen!
We told Dusty that since he got to cut the tree down, he had to drag it to the car. He was very willing and had a great time with his tree!
This is after the tree had been shaken and wrapped. They have this cool contraption that will hold 2 trees at a time, and then shakes them violently to get all the dead needles and other things out of the tree. It was way fun to watch. Even grumpy-boy Logan thought it was fun -- from the car anyway, he was too cold to get out again. Then they would wrap it if you wanted. This is the wrapping contraption you see in the photo.
Small but mighty!
Well, hello there, little reindeer, otherwise known as a caribu!
1 comment:
oh the joys of tree hunting :] those were some interesting times huh? we never went home with all the kids happy haha. poor buddy. I'm sure he had fun decorating it though :]. the tree shaker was pretty neat too (luke was our "tree shaker").
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