The Tree

This year, thanks to a Plum District deal of the day, we went to a tree farm to cut down our Christmas tree. Part of the deal was a picture with Santa and a Sleigh ride, but we went during the week and apparently he's only there on weekends. We did get a picture of us in Santa's sleigh though. The lady was supposed to email it to me. But she didn't. Doug thinks that she just couldn't read my hand writing, which is very possible. Although I thought it looked very readable. Oh well. We have a hard copy of it. At first we were disappointed that Santa wasn't there and there was no sleigh ride (we did get a peek at the sleigh and it looked a lot like a hay ride at pumpkin patches), but after talking to the lady we were glad we didn't go on a Saturday because she said it's super crowded and they run out of parking places. We did get some free hot chocolate and popcorn with our tree. We loved being able to have so many options of what tree we got. Jackson got really cold by the end and claimed he didn't have any fun. But he really did. We all did. :)

Jack pulling and Jordan pushing Kenzie on the tree carrier.

When Kenzie saw all the trees she said "mountain!" I told her they were trees and she said "it's like a mountain."

The kids all getting a ride.

Jordan being a tree on a stump.

Jackson brought some candy cane in case he got hungry.

Where's Jordan?

The winner! We think it's pretty perfect.

Doug cut down the tree.

Pulling the tree.


We decorated the tree the next day. We got a smaller tree than we normally do and I was happy it took much less time than normal to put the lights on.

I've been trying to have the boys learn the articles of faith and so since they know the word ordinences they kept calling the ornaments ordinances. :)

Don't you love her outfit? :) I think she had 2 long sleeve shirts, 1 short sleeve shirts, 2 or 3 night gowns, 1 pair of pajama pants, and 1 shoe. Instead of taking off her clothes when she brings me something else she wants to wear I usually just layer it on top of the others.

Kenzie wanted help with each ornament she put on the tree.