Christmas Tree 2009

We have made cutting down our own Christmas tree one of our first family traditions. This year we went up Cedar Mountain to get our tree. I would like to direct everyone's attention to the picture of me with the chainsaw first. Remember that kids magazine that had a picture on back and it had a lot of things wrong with the picture and you were supposed to figure out what was wrong? Let's play that game with this picture. First of all why isn't the chain on the chainsaw? That's because the chainsaw was working perfectly until we got ready to cut our tree down, and it took me about a half hour (until dark) to fix it. Second, isn't there about 2 feet of snow? Yes. So why is Ryan wearing shorts? Good question! If the picture showed my lower legs, you would see how brite red they were from walking through 2 feet of snow for about an hour looking for the perfect tree. Nice call on the shorts knuckle head. As you can see in the pictures Rod, Katie, and their cute girls came with us. The girls loved it. They were tromping through the snow and getting trompled by Duke having a blast. It took us until after dark to have the trees loaded and heading home. We both found great trees and had a great trip.