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Friday, November 23, 2012

Traditions

Today is the day.  The day after Thanksgiving.  One of my favorite days of the year.  Today is the day that we trek through the snow, up hill and down hill in search of the perfect Charlie Brown tree.  We've been doing this as long as I can remember.  My mom, dad, brother, sister, cousins and I bundled up in our warm clothes and spent half the day in search of the perfect tree.  Once found, we cut it down with small handsaws, then drug it back to the pickup.  Once there, we enjoyed hot chocolate and cookies before going back home.  Sure, we can get a much prettier tree in town in a tree lot, but it's not so much about the tree as it is about the tradition and family.

 
 
This afternoon we drove up to the head of McCall creek.  When we could drive no farther, we set out on foot, in search of the perfect tree.
 
 
 
 
Once we found the perfect tree we cut it down and then the boys packed it down to the pickup.
 
 
 
 
This is our tree cutting party.  I believe we cut down 6 trees for 6 different families.  What are some of your favorite family traditions?
 
 




7 comments:

  1. Not Christmas related but I can remember doing foal color/marking lotteries if we were expecting a foal. Winner got a cone at Dairy Queen....but I'm sure all the losers did too. Just remember it really adding to the excitement and wonder of it all! SRW

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  2. Great pic of the boys. You should frame it! C.

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    1. Which one? I like the top one the best I think. They were not the most cooperative!

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  3. How fun! I might be more eager, and feel more Christmasy if it wasn't 75 degrees out.. bleh. Not sure when we will get ours, we drive 2.5 hours to the mountains to cut one! Last year was so fun, because we actually had snow!

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    1. I know what you mean! We drove about that far to get ours. Today was in the high 50's and we were running around in shirt sleeves. I don't know when I will put ours in the house, hard to feel Christmasy when it is this hot outside!

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  4. We go out a cut our own tree every year. Now with the baby on the way we are really glad we do this tradition. Its a great way to spent time.

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