Cutting a Christmas Tree

This year we decided to go as a family to cut a Christmas tree. Dave has sworn to never have a fake one.. so in years past I have stayed home with the kids or he would take Kaylee and they would get one. So this year with the weather being so nice we decided to make it a family venture. We went up Broad canyon thats about a 45 min drive from our house down the allens ranch road. We went with Krista and her family. It was super muddy and we werent sure if our truck would be able to hang with Kristas Avalanche (that was for you Krista) but we barely made it. We had so much fun and we are going to try to make it a yearly tradition!

Heres most of the clan hiking up the mountain trying to scope us out the perfect tree.

This is the one Kaylee wanted... But we werent sure it would fit through our door :)

Look what a sweet dad my kidos have.. they are SO lucky!! (sorry its sideways)


Now that is the perfect one. We kinda liked a different one better, but we told Kaylee she could pick it out and there was no talking her out of this one.

The whole family standing by our tree

Getting it all decorated

And finally.. Aspen putting the finishing touches on it.

All the kids standing by their beautiful decorated tree.

They had so much fun getting ready for Christmas. Going hiking to pick out and cut our own tree was their favorite part. Hopefully there will be many more years of these to come, and many more memories to last a lifetime!