Oh Christmas Tree

This year we ventured out into the wilderness and cut down a Christmas tree! It was a fun little family adventure. I forgot my camera but luckily I had the camera on my phone. Some of the photos are a little weirdie but it is better than nothing, right?!

So Jathan got a permit to cut the tree down on base (base is MASSIVE by the way). They closed down part of base due to aggressive wolf activity (check out this link). Through most of our excursion Troop was really whiny and crying. Jathan was getting really stressed out and finally yelled "Troop you sound like a wounded rabbit. You are going to get us all killed!!" ha ha ha. It was really funny. Thankfully we did not have any encounters with wolves!!

It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be to find a tree that we liked. There are SO MANY TREES HERE and all of the trees looked beautiful until you got close to them... Then they looked straggly and the branches were few and far between. And they were all so thin.

We bundled up the kids until they could barely move...

Zanna enjoyed eating the beautiful white snow.

Cute little Troop! He was not too sure how he felt about being so bundled. He just stood there and didn't move!

Here is Jathan cutting down the tree. From a distance it looked like a beauty but as we got closer it was thin and didn't have very many branches either... but it was the best one we could find. It took him all of ten seconds to cut it down. The trunk was like two inches in diameter.

Zanna following Jathan through the woods as he carries the tree back to the car.

Everyone looks a little creepy. My camera phone doesn't have red eye reduction ;)

Afterwards we went to Sports Authority and got the kids some sleds. They had fun in the parking lot as Jathan pulled them around!

All of the parking lot's and most of the roads here are totally packed with snow. It is so stinking cold and the sun is rarely out... it never has a chance to melt.

Here is our skinny little charlie brown Christmas tree in our house.

It looked a lot cuter all decorated. Although half of my ornaments were either too heavy or simply did not fit! Oh and I don't have a tree skirt! I always used one of my moms. So we put a sheep skin around the bottom of the tree and that turned out pretty cute.

Tissue paper poms dressed up the dining area. I might be obsessed with these things. I seem to use them for everything lately! And they kind of look like big beautiful snow balls.

Well I am not the only one obsessed. The kids favorite thing to do is get on the table and blow all the decorations so they can watch them sway. Little stinkers!