This past weekend we went on our annual Christmas Tree Cutting Extravaganza with my parents (Kassidie pooped out on us). This year though it was a little less......hmm....we'll use the word "adventurous". If you recall, last year was quite the expedition requiring us to travel 200 miles round trip over the course of 10 hours. Less adventurous, in this case, was a good thing this year.
A few weeks ago Brad and I journeyed to Heber at 5:30 am to get wrist bands in order to get a tree permit. Headed to Sonic for some breakfast, then stood in line for 1 hour to actually GET the permits. Yes, we're die hard Christmas tree cutting fans. And apparently so are a lot of other people, the line was quite long. This year, with Brad's supervision and careful research on everyone's part, I got permits to the area I THOUGHT I was getting them for last year. Yeah....probably won't ever live that fiasco down. Good memories though. :D
We hit the road and headed for the area near Strawberry to cut our trees this year. Brad and I made homemade (yes, pure and simple homemade) glazed donuts which if I don't say so myself were pretty delicious. We also brewed up some apple cider to take with us. I was excited to say the least as this year my wardrobe actually fit the weather conditions and there was actually snow! We scouted around for a few hours looking for the perfect trees, then hauled them back to the truck where we built a fire, roasted hot dogs and sipped hot apple cider.
It was a lot of fun and I love the tradition we have, it's always something fun and exciting to look forward to and sort of a unique experience. We always have a lot of giggles and a good time. You can catch some photos below. I caught some pretty neat photos of the sun coming through the large pine trees.
Typical Brad expression
Our Tree...just a little guy.
Mom and Dad's tree, it was HUGE
Sunlight pictures I took:
Tree decorations I made (homemade donuts, tree ornaments....I've felt quite domestic this year apparently):
The fruit of our labors (we even have gifts to put under it already!)
3 comments:
Oh my little elves! We went with Kyle and Dany to cut their tree down too. Of course... not quite the adventure you had.. but we are pretty low-key mellow people. lol
Love the tree! Cute decorations to. Can I have the home made doughnuts recepie?
We recieved your Christmas card it is way cute you did a great job!
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