On Saturday morning we went up to Red Feather Lakes where you can cut your own tree for $10! Instead of simply paying for a tree it's more like paying for a fun trip to the outdoors, the experience of trekking through knee-high snow with a bundled toddler on your hip (weighing twice as much as usual from the extra layers), the joy of finding "the one," and then sawing it to the ground and dragging it like a neaderthal back to the car with you. I say $10 well spent! Of course, as soon as we drove back through town we were dismayed at how much more perfect the trees in the tree lots looked, but our has real personality and memories attached to it, and that's what's important to us (at least that's what we tell ourselves!). I'll let Patrick narrate the rest.
K, dad, we've been driving for 2 hours, but I think we're getting close - I can smell the pine!
You think I should just pull over here on the right? Alright, but you'll have to help me park.
Thanks. I needed a little help with that gear shift. Now where's my jacket? This hat just isn't going to cut it with that cold outside.
Man, mom and I look good all bundled up! What's that? Put my arms down? Sorry, no can do - too many layers in the way!
Ok, enough with the photos, on to the hunt! I think I see one over there - see where I'm pointing? Yep, over there! Mush! Mush!
Now this is more like it... except for that whole grove of aspens. Let's avoid that like the plague, they're too tough to decorate when they look dead.
Yay, Dad found it! The perfect apartment tree! Big enough to sit on the ground, small enough that if I topple it, I won't kill the furniture. Hey, um, dad? Where'd your coat go?
Now THAT is pure strength. Better keep up the snacks so I can get big like him.
Mmmmmm, I REALLY deserve these crackers, it was tough getting carried through all that snow. Now let's head home! ...I'll drive.
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are you sure everyone was getting their tree last saturday? I was at the grocery store getting a powerade & it sure seemed like everyone & their brothers were there! haaaa! love the pic of Patrick driving! soon enough girl, he will be & you'll miss these times!
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