Christmas Tree Hunting

As tradition would have it we left yesterday morning to go hunt down the perfect tree. It was a beautiful chilly day, I am so glad it wasn't as fridgid as last year! Usually Deric leaves for hunting soon as we get home so we are often in a hurry, this year he wasn't going so we got to take our sweet time. Usually we grab breakfast at the truck stop drive through, this year we actually went in and sat down and ate!

Brody was more interested in putting his buckles on than looking at me. Safety first I guess.

Getting ready for the hayride back to the trees! Brody climbed up on the wagon and plopped right down! He was ready to go!

Brody was still sitting on the bottom of the trailer at this point, I didn't just miss him.

He decided he was done sitting here and climbed up with the uni-bomber daddy. (Go up one picture, doesn't he look like the uni-bomber? That would explain Brody's worried look!)

I had my big lens with me. I was sitting to close to get all of everyone in the frame. I think our hayride driver had been drinking or something, we were flying through the field at crazy fast speeds, I wasn't about to try to move!

Running through the trees, trying to be the first to find THE ONE.

Things were a little tricky with stumps hiding everywhere, and crazy underbrush.

I actually went to take a picture of him tromping through the weeds and one caught him and I caught him going down! He-hee, I couldn't resist posting it!

Looking at the mess on his gloves, he actually stood there flapping his hands and picking the junk off of them before he moved on.

It's no wonder he tripped, look at his hat over his eyes! He actually liked it this way and when I would move it back, he would pull it right back down again!

This is my lens zoomed all the way out! Brody was checking things out and walked practically to the end of the field! I tried keeping up with him, but he was running I was walking...

The 'Bunny Rabbit' tree

Daddy found it, he found our tree!

So excited we found our tree!

My little cutie pie!

Getting ready to cut it down.

Watching daddy very carefully.

Timber!

Helping daddy with something or another.

Umm, yeah. We so aren't going to get a picture here! Lets go.

Pulling our tree out to the road.

Making sure the tree is still there. (Do you see it way back there? It is the green blob on the side of the road above Reyganns head.)

He still can't see!

Daddy and the kiddos

Someone offered to take our picture, so I returned the favor to them.

FINALLY we get to eat peanuts!! We didn't tell the girls where we were going till this morning, and the first thing Kylie asked was if we were going to go out for breakfast like we always did, and if we could eat peanuts!

We purchased some watery hot cocoa for the kids. Brody HAD to pour his into a different cup before he could drink it.

He is silly like that!

Yumm!

Nothing beats hot cocoa after a chilly morning!

Brody made a friend while we were eating peanuts and waiting for our tree to come in from the field.

What a goober!

Doesn't he look really silly here? His eyes are open a little and his lips are all poochy! He-hee! He fell asleep in no time, it must have been all that running around. (Do you see his coloring book? The tree farm was giving them to all the kids, it's about going to the farm and getting your Christmas tree. Pretty neat.)

Taking the tree off

The girls talked the WHOLE way home about wanting to watch daddy take the tree off the car. So when we got home that is just what they did!