Tree Farm 15th Anniversary

This was our 15th year for the tree farm...11th for Rebecca, 7th for Necon and 1st for Lydia. We had so much fun looking for a tree. Every year we listen to Bing Crosby Christmas and Beach Boys Christmas on the way. When we get there they give us a saw and a flashlight (if we go at night) and we head off to the part of the farm where the great big Christmas trees live. Dad refuses to let us get a tree that is under 10 feet tall. One year we got one so big they couldn't get it through their machine to wrap it all up so we drove all the way home thinking the tree was going to fall off the roof! Once we find the tree we all do a little sawing (except for mom, and now that we are older pretty much it is just dad and Rebecca) and haul the tree back to be shaken out and wrapped. While we wait (and Dad "helps" the workers) we get hot chocolate and candy canes. It was so much fun having Lydia there this year, even though it didn't quite feel right since it wasn't even cold! She has been so fussy yesterday and today, so the pictures didn't turn out too great, but we got one pretty good one for the Christmas Card.

Dad and Necon with the BIG TREE...

She got worn out being so fussy while we were trying to take the pictures

Just to clear things up...that big tree is for my parent's house, our tree is now fake. Growing up we NEVER had a fake tree and I swore I NEVER would either. We got a real tree our first married Christmas and it will be our last! They are the biggest pain in the entire world! We still had pine needles in the apartment when we moved out a year later...I never knew how much hard work my mom put into making the tree look so good. She is a better woman than I...here are some pictures of Lydia putting her first Christmas ornament onto our fake tree...