The Hunt

This year we decided to get our first "real" Christmas tree. So the hunt began last Friday. It was 14 degrees but a beautiful sunny day.

After driving around for a while...there it was! Well, there were two actually. Reis and Hudson each spotted one so they went running and then we had to choose. Reis liked this one because it was tall and thin, and full of needles.
This was Hudson's pick. We decided on this one because "mamma" liked how you could see the truck through it:)This is our good friend Brittany. She joined us for the day and took pictures. Including this one of herself...freezing. She is from Arizona so this weather is...well, not her thing!
So here we are. The Yoder's first Christmas tree cutting down ceremony!

The men got it down with no problem and up on the van.

We got it home and up. It fit perfect. We noticed that the truck was a little crooked so we tilted it a bit to make it straight. That was a mistake we found out. After decorating it that night we woke up the next morning to it laying on our kitchen table. The sad part in all of that is that I have a collection of about 230 old glass ornaments. They are Shiny Brights for those of you who are antiquers:) Scott guesses about 20-25 of them were smashed on the floor. I cried as I cleaned them up:( But you know... I got thinking how blessed I am and how they are just "things" in my life. Life will go on! We stood it up (straight), redecorated it and it looks beautiful! Someone asked me if I got a pic of it laying down, no....I wasn't in the mood really:)