The Saturday after Thanksgiving our friends, the Atkins, invited us to cut down Christmas trees in the mountains with them. Since we lent all our artificial trees to the Community Nativity Festival our Stake puts on the first week in December, we though we could use a live one to tide us over. Plus, it's a fun experience. We couldn't have asked for a prettier day to hike around the North Carolina mountains.
Before searching for our tree the kids got to visit with red-neck Santa.
That's what you get in the North Carolina mountains, folks.
We all loaded on covered wagon for a free ride up the mountain side.
The search for the perfect tree begins.
Rolling down the mountain side.
The kids needed a quick nap in the sun after hiking all over the mountains.
Finally. The perfect tree. We decided to go for a small one since we had a couple full sized artificial ones at home.
After cutting down the tree we enjoyed lunch and some pond fun.
The mild weather gave us a different experience than our past Christmas tree hunts in Utah.
Tiffany Atkins and Isaac.
Now to trim the tree. The kids all took turns putting lights on, including Isaac.
Don't tell DCFS my baby stuck a cord in his mouth. Don't worry. I didn't let him chew on it.
2 comments:
The fun of a live tree!! We haven't cut our own in many years, but we always have a live, fresh tree in our front room. We should take the boys on a tree hunt next year!!
You get Redneck Santa, I get Ghetto Santa. At least we are leading interesting lives!
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