Chritsmas Tree!

This is a picture of our beautiful Christmas tree!

This year we decided to get adventerous and go to the mountains to get our Christmas tree. For just 10 dollars you can buy a permit that allows you to go way up in the mountains to pick and cut your own Christmas tree. We were so excited and decided to make it a whole day adventure and take the kids sledding as well.

Isabel having fun in the snow

Josiah getting ready for his first sled run

The kids pretending to be panguins and slide down the hill on their bellies

We had a blast sledding. We found a little place with the perfect size sleds. Unfortunately, Asher didn't like sledding, so we had to take turns with him in the car, but it was a good excuse to get warmed up. It was really fun!

Next we headed up the mountain to get a tree. You have to go to a designated area, so we started up the mountain. It was a bit scary because it was really steep and there was no guard rail on the two lane road. But we finally made it and it was breathtaking. The kids were pretty tired, so here is Jason pulling Josiah up the mountain on the sled.

Asher didn't like tree huntng either, but he stayed a bit. Unfortunately Josiah was quite cold, so after 20 minutes, I took the boys back to the car.


Jason brought Isabel back and then headed back to claim the tree he found. I was a little nervous because it wasn't a Noble Fir like I expected, but he had just spend an hour looking for a tree, so I wasn't going to say anything. When we got home, he said, "look here's our tree," I just gasped. It was the most hideous thing I had ever seen. So I nicely asked if he could go to Lowes and get us a beautiful tree. 20 minutes later, we had the tree you see in the above picture. Ha!

But we did get to enjoy this breath taking view, so it wasn't for nothing!