Our Christmas Tree

Just a quickie to document the tree we had this year. Of course we wanted to cut our tree again this year, but didn't get to the office early enough to gt a permit in our usual location. Dang those 8 minutes! So after a month long debate about what we were going to do- were we going to (heaven for bid) drive to a tree lot and BUY a tree? Well, that was what I thought we would succumb to, but Kent had other ideas in mind. He had a guy from work have his parents who live down by Nephi go and buy us permits so we could go cut way out by Delta. So we started out trying to leave early on Tyse's birthday- which just happened to be the coldest day of the year- on our adventure to find a new place to cut. We decided to follow a friend's recommendation as to what canyon to try out and by the time we got there the kids were ready for naps. But there is no time to nap when there is a christmas tree to be hunted on the coldest day of the year! So we bundled everyone up and headed out (this only took 45 minutes!). We should have known that we were doomed when Ollie was crying before we even left the car! Anyway, I hope to have suppressed the memory of this tree hunt by the time next year rolls around, so I am not going to go into the gory details- let's just say that we found a tree in record time, Tyse and I cut it down, Kent left half of it on the mountainside and wasn't willing to go back up to find the rest; Ollie, Emitt and I started down earlier than Tyse and Kent and we got totally lost to the point that all 3 of us were crying, and luckily Tyse kept telling dad to follow the crying, so they found us and got us safely back to the car! Here are the boys in the car after finally warming up...and here we are with the tree loaded by the sign documenting the place we will never cut again!I should have known this wasn't going to be a quickie!

Anyway, we did get the lights on and decorate and I think it was one of Kent's favorites- minus the issue with the lights. Half the time the top of the tree wouldn't light up at all! It would just blink on and off at will so we decided to just embrace the personality of the tree for another year! I will have to post a finished pic later- I think it is on Kent's camera.

We were really happy that it was still in good shape by the time we returned from CO and we were able to light it up a few more times before my mom took pity on and came to take it down.