Finding the perfect tree

So this was the weekend to do it, and lets face it with just a little over two weeks till the big man himself pays us a visit (or so the kids hope) it was definitely time, so after showers and breakfast this morning (yummy cinnamon rolls) we hopped into the truck and drove ourselves out to a Christmas tree farm in search of the perfect tree. It certainly felt a little christmassy with all the frost on the ground. There we were in our wellies, trudging through the rows and rows of Christmas trees as our feet got colder and colder... and then the snow started to fall, so it was now or never, the trek for the perfect Christmas tree of 2007 had begun in great earnest. Owen was the first to discover what he thought would be the best tree, but as you can see it just wasn't really big enough, and then 

Morgan spotted what she thought would be a phenomenal tree....  (perhaps in her bedroom).. definitely not the right size.  So the hunt continued over the frozen ground, which was made just that bit colder when Morgan would sneak up behind us and put ice down our backs... the toes continued to get colder and the tree still eluded us - we none could agree and Darren just wanted to get it over with and cut down anything, but what do you know.. it seems he had found the perfect tree after all....

can you hear the tada, and trumpeting sound of success as there before our very eyes was the tree of our dreams and all we had to do was cut it down.... a task it was to prove, a little easier said than done.  First Morgan tried to saw the tree, and then Owen and, with the extra muscle power of Darren down came the tree..... TIMBER!!!!  Not before another shower that of pine needles down the the back of Darren's neck... Time for a quick picture of our new addition... and it was off to pay, load and return the saw to the farm owners and a quick drink of hot apple cider

 (most definitely welcomed with the now frozen toes - I think we all thought about putting our feet into the hot apple cider just to warm them up)  And then it started to snow harder.. so we decided to call it a day and head back to our toasty warm house to take on the task of decorating the tree.......

So home we went and the task of bringing up and sorting through the decorations began.. Both Owen and Morgan were tremendous helpers lugging up the huge box of Christmas ornaments up the stairs from the basement.  We sorted through all the Christmas lights and plugged them to test them, and then managed to hang them along with all the other decorations that we had (there seem more and more each year) That could be because every year the kids get a new ornament themselves and I put a photo of the kids on the tree from each year.... Of course this didn't go completely without a hitch, we managed to break a couple of ornaments this year and probably would've have broken more if some hadn't bounced.  Lucky for me as I'm the one who dropped most of them... Klutz that I am.  Poor Morgan broke one of my ornaments and was so upset that she ran upstairs to hide in her bed... so I found her and said not to worry, I'd put a giant hook on her and hang as my ornament instead.. she thought that was very funny but pointed out to me that she was probably to heavy for the tree...ah well such is life... Anyway we finished the decorating and here is the end result... the search for the perfect Christmas tree is at an end and now we have the PERFECTLY Decorated CHRISTMAS TREE.  Happy holidays to all.