TIMBER....... Christmas Tree time AGAIN!!!!

This is our 2nd year to cut a fresh tree down to put up in the basement family room! This year went much smoother than last, well in the beginning it did!!! We drove to Idaho, Cash and Cade both slept the whole ride!!! Anyone with kids knows the peace of a sleeping baby as you drive ANYWHERE!!!....well, we made it to our destination....drove up the dirt road a ways...and there we unload....this is quite a chore....5 boys to dress warm, boots, gloves, hats..... I reminded myself of the mother on Christmas Story.....you know dressing Randy for his winter walk to school.... Well, everyones dressed.....we all start heading up the hill, of course Cade is ALREADY crying by this point...it's MAYBE been 7 minutes...... well, Cort spots the PERFECT tree!!!! Tall, bushy, BEAUTIFUL!!! so, ........

We all decide....yes, this is the one!!! WOW, that was great, much faster than last year! So, Matt get's the saw out...still Cade is crying, he has now taken off his gloves, so he's now frostbitten!!!! Matt chops the tree down!!! Cade is still crying, I pack him and Cash down the hill, Matt is dragging the tree, the other 3 are full of it, running here and there!!! We load the tree in, tag it, and the boys want to ride in the jet sled back to the main road.....so, throw crying cade in the truck, out of the cold, hook the sled up, and head out!!!! PERFECT...is what you are all thinking....RIGHT????

So....we pull the boys back to the main road, no wrecks, no nothin.....great fun, cold, but fun!!!! So, we now undress the other boys, put the sled away....head out......Soooooooo very smooth, what a great adventure!!!! We are on our way home!!!! Of course, all boys claim to be STARVING....so we'll grab something, a hamburger or something....that keeps everyone happy! The thought there will soon be food, always keep them happy!

So...... we get up the road, maybe a mile and Matt slams on the brakes....... "What the H#@&!!.....Where's the tree?" So, yes we look back to see way down the road is our BEAUTIFUL Christmas tree, laying in the road!! Matt reverses all the way back to find our perfect tree NOT so perfect anymore.....topless!!!! It's 1/2 the size it used to be!! I just laughed...yes, very surprising coming from ME..... Matt is crazy mad....and decides to go back into the mountains to find ANOTHER!!!! ahahahahaahahha...... I tried to talk him into keeping it, and having a CHARLIE BROWN Christmas!! He was determined to get another....of course, it's almost dark, by this point. Well, he is now driving like a bat out of H..... and we search from the road, no way we are re-dressing everyone....and let's remind you all, Cade is still crying...... so, Matt get's out.....searches around and FINALLY returns with a tree, not close to the one we had before!!!... BUT it is a tree!

So, VERY LONG story short...... these are all pics of the GOOD tree, the times BEFORE the 2nd tree!!! whooooooo....... we did get home, it all worked out....just part of the Christmas memory, RIGHT!!! Matt said, "SOMEDAY, this will be fun"!!!! Hope you all have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!