even though this was our 17th Christmas celebration as a family; we'd never gotten our own tree. correction - our own 'real' tree. we got a REALLY nice artificial tree, many years ago. It's perfect and full, lush, needs 0 water, holds ALL the ornaments and it's reusable ..
But this year, I wanted the 'smell' and the adventure of chopping ours down. So, for the first time ever - we had ourselves a good old fashioned tree hunt ..
We drove up to a few different spots & hiked around the snow covered mountains to find the perfect one.
^^ not quite ... he's a little bare.
we found the tree above immediately for Mikayla. She hadn't planned on getting a tree; but someone chopped this little guy down and just left him there 😔 so we gave him a home.
when we finally found the tree; it was the only thing that wasn't 17 feet tall and it may sound completely cliche, but the sun was shining her last few rays down on the tree. *see above, bottom right.*
we found ourselves quite entertained by the snow (see videos below) because at the time of the post - we had none in the valley. 2 days before Christmas, though - we got some. 7 inches. It still hasn't gone away .. and the tree never made my house smell like Christmas. haha but it was fun, nonetheless.
