Oh Christmas Tree

Last week we decided it was time to go cut down our christmas tree. Chris's family needed to go get their tree as well so Bonnie and Nate came with us. So we bundled Carter up for his first outdoor winter adventure.
We got to our spot and started looking for two perfect christmas tree's. It didn't take long to realize that we had chosen a bad spot! It seemed that all the good tree's had already been found by everyone else, but nothing could stop our determination. We kept going further and further to find the our perfect christmas trees.
After about an hour or so we finally found them. The only problem is that Bonnie and Nates "perfect" tree happened to be 18 feet tall! They had a permit for up to a 20 foot tree but before we had left they wouldn't get a tree taller than 12 feet. That is why we didn't bring more help or a trailer. Anyway, being the determined people we are we (two girls, a 10 year old, and Chris) thought we could handle carrying a 10 foot tree, a 18 foot tree, and a 6month old baby over a mile through the mountain terrain to our truck (that didn't have a trailer.) So that's what we did! How we did it is we would all lift the big tree and carry it as far as we could before our arm would fall off. Then we would set it down and two of us would walk back and get the smaller tree and carry it past were we dropped the big tree, and then come back to the big tree and then we would start again. It was really cold so I tried to hold Carter in my coat as long as possible but it just wasn't helping us get very far, so we put him in his little back pack for the last little bit and the poor boy was so tired that he kept dozing off and his poor head would slowly droop to the side of the back pack. He was such a good sport about it. He didn't cry the whole time. I don't know how long it took us to get that tree out! It felt like forever. Then when we finally made it to the truck, the next challenge started. We had to fit both those tree's in the truck:) Well long after the moon and the stars had come out we finally had the trees loaded on our truck and we headed home. It was all worth it though, we love our tree's and we have another great Christmas memory



Becky, Chris and Carter searching for our Christmas tree.

Carter falling asleep in his back pack


Carter and Nate warming up in the car. Carter already wants to drive:)

Chris and his amazing tree packing skills.

Carter helping me put his first ornament on the tree