The day after Thanksgiving is always our Christmas Tree Hunt. This year we had the Kotters with us and it was an adventure as always!
It was COLD this year. It also turned into a really bad storm. We watched all morning as it snowed and the wind blew. The storm broke in the early afternoon so we headed right out.
Holden insisted on getting out of the truck with us, but then turned around and cried while I tried to carry him through the two foot deep snow-fun.
We had a hard time finding good trees in this area so we decided to head back to the cabin. While Josh was dropping people off, his Dad's pickup decided to break. He was able to get us all back to the cabin, but then it died completely, leaving us stranded at the cabin. Yay. We ended up having to tow it back home after someone drove up with a different pickup.
Logan and his friend Taden stayed up in the canyon with Shelby and the weather got bad again. They said trees were falling over as they were walking through the forest! We spent the rest of the day watching the snow fly horizontally by the windows.
This is the next morning. We headed down North Canyon road on the four wheelers as far as we could go. We still didn't find the best trees, but our patience was running thin by this point.
Holden immediately started screaming this time. I left Josh in charge of getting him ready, and it took me half the time to realize he didn't even put snow pants on the poor kid! No wonder he was screaming!
The other kids had fun, though!
We loaded the trees on the four wheeler sled and then had Logan ride on top so they didn't fall off. I took a picture but my camera, being the awesome thing that it is, didn't save it. I also took a really cute picture of all the kids that disappeared, too. Someone really needs a new camera!
It took Holden a while, but he finally got warmed up!
Funny (?) story about our ride home. Logan and I were sitting in the back seat of the pickup and we saw something out of the corner of our eyes. We both turned around and noticed that the Christmas trees we were hauling had blown out of the pickup! It took us forever to find a place to turn back around and get back up to the spot. Sure enough, two 15 feet Christmas trees were laying across the opposite lane of traffic on the two lane road! We were so lucky no one got hurt, but it was kinda funny too. We always have strange things happen on our Christmas tree hunts. The trees ended up being okay, just a little road rashed!
We had tons of fun at the cabin this year, playing games, watching movies, napping and just being with family and friends. Gotta love the Christmas tree hunt!
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