The Christmas Tree Hunt

Scott has to go on a work trip for the next couple weeks, so we decided to go ahead and get our Christmas tree this weekend.  And really, I'm excited to have it.  It's starting to feel like Christmas.  We also had really great weather this weekend - in the high 50s - good weather to be out looking for trees.  We went to a local cut-your-own farm (Eckert's).  We've picked peaches, blackberries, apples pumpkins and now a Christmas tree there.  It's a wonderful place!  They had white pine and scotch pine trees there.  We ended up with white pine.  Here we are checking out the trees.

 Grant found a little tree he liked

 Here was one Matthew liked

 We thought this one might be a winner for a while, but then walked around and looked some more.

 Anna liked this one

You can see Scott in the background still looking

 Grant vacillated between being excited to be out and about and being too tired to walk.

It was nap time. 

 Excited to be out and about

Uh oh, here he comes back

Too tired to walk

I did carry him a lot

 

 The kids liked this one too
So many good ones

 Finally we found a winner

Grant was now too tired to appear in any pictures

He stood off to the side angrily

 Scott cut the tree down, with some help from Matthew and Anna

Here's Matthew having a go at it

Scott had been holding John for most of our adventure, but I got to hold him during tree cutting and carrying.  At first he was very cuddly.

 Then he REALLY wanted to get down and started pulling hair and sunglasses and things

 Eventually he accepted that I was not going to put him down

And yadda yadda yadda, we got the tree to the car

Ta Da!!

Glad Scott was here to lend his Christmas tree expertise and manly manpower to this endeavor.    We missed him last year.