Annual Christmas Tree Hunt

This past Sunday we squeezed in our annual tree hunt. I got home from work that morning and had a monstrous headache, not to mention Tob and the children needed to search the area for Tiger Lemon's "real home" so I snoozed until they woke me up at 1:00 to go find our tree. I have to say that "usually" I have the most perfect, patient husband who waits for me to pick the perfect tree. It often goes on for hours something like this, "Oh look at that one", "wait no not that one", "nah that one is flat on one side", "what about this one", "nevermind it has a big hole", "oh oh lets go look at that one", until we end up miles from the car. Well, that wasn't exactly the case this year. First of all we ended up in a large batch of lodge pole and a few ponderosa pines, not my ideal choices for tree's. So the story starts off with...

the kids tromping off in their snowshoes, not so much I think to find a tree, but to roll, stomp, jump, push and shove each other in the snow. Whatever, as long as they were having fun. This is all about our memories so I am not going to try and sugar coat this. Our trip made me laugh at the time and I still laugh about it now. Tob was a "little" grumpy that morning, due to whatever, that's his prerogative to have days as such. Anyway we were out in the woods probably 2-3 hours, the dog wouldn't listen, or the kids, which precipitated comments such as these.... "hurry up" "stop throwing a fit" "get up out of the snow, your going to get wet", " I am sick and I am tired of this behavior" . Most of the time I was laughing although I know a few of the comments came out of me as well :0). Anyway with all of this going on Toby had disappeared into the tree's and Nojah yells "Dad's cutting down a tree"!! I thought "WHAT? I didn't authorize that?? So I go running over and sure enough Tob has made a decision and is hard at work sawing down some random tree. After he was done I asked "Did you just cut down a tree without asking me?" and his reply "YEP" "Merry Christmas"! Huh? This is a little out of character for him which made it even funnier, at least to me. On a positive note, I was lucky enough to get the best Christmas video ever in the process. So here is the annual family picture. Yes I know, I wasn't included and I am ok with that because this year was so ummm "memorable"!?

And here is the tree that was drug in unison to the car by both Toby and Alexyss. Later when I asked him how he found it he said "it was one of the only two fir tree's he saw on our hunt". I'll forgive him this year as it has turned out to be a pretty good tree.

So the story ends with the kids in the car, Nojah crying with frost bitten hands and Alexyss starting on the bag of goodies. Tob just happy the hunt is over and so proud of his kill.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! BAH HUMMBUG!