Picking the Tree

Traditionally, we go to a cute tree farm in Alpine to pick 0ut our Christmas tree. We chose a really good day to go because it was 50 degrees. This year it only took us 20 minutes to find it. It caught Sambo's eye and he was the winner. It's a blue spruce.



We drove it to Taco Time to get some dinner on the way home. The kids tip-toed to our table with no shoes...their boots were sooo muddy from the warm weather.

That night BS got the lights put on. The deal is, if we get a fresh tree he has to put on the lights because we have a perfectly good fake tree downstairs in our storage room. He hates bringing that tree upstairs...there is always wall dings and injuries involved. So for the past 5 years we have had a fresh tree. He is really good at the lights too! It was getting late so there was no time to decorate the tree that night. We made a plan to hang ornaments the next day right after school.

The next day, I went to the bus stop to pick-up the kids and Sambo and Will had made plans for their friends to come play. So I had 4 extra boys...plus my 4 kids...all hanging ornaments at once! Such good helpers! Didn't they do a great job?