One of our favorite holiday traditions is taking a family trip to a local tree farm to find the perfect tree for our home. I look forward to this adventure every year. I love tromping through the fields with the kids, eyeing different trees, turning dozens down before finding the perfect one. I love watching the kids run around trying to help, their cheeks rosey from the cold. I love the sweet couple who run the farm who act like you're the only family who comes to their farm even though they sell hundreds of trees each season. They welcome you into their warm little hut, give you free hot chocolate by the crackling fire, feed you donuts and other treats. They always take a photo of your family and the walls are lined with photographs from years past. We love to search the walls to find pictures of us from when Camden was our only child and we always go back on the special day when Santa visits the farm and they offer horse-drawn wagon rides through the fields. It's not always so picturesque, obviously. By the end of our adventure searching for the tree all of the boys, yes that includes Scott, had had quite enough of the cold and the walking, but once we hit the hut, the smiles quickly returned.
This year, we bought our tree just a couple of days after Thanksgiving, as we always do, and then returned to the farm today to meet Santa and take a wagon ride.
Here we are searching for the perfect tree...
Micah had had enough by this point...
He's a good sport...
Haha - Micah's grimace is his most recent smile...we're working on it.
And today we had fun meeting Santa (who had to run inside after he saw us because he forgot his glasses!). Good thing the kids don't know the difference!
Sadie's first introduction...
Santa handed out tootsie rolls...
Love these two...
Wagon ride!
Here is a recap of our adventures in
2012,
2011,
2010.
1 comment:
That grimace is too funny!!! Love you all and can't wait to sit around your tree soon!
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