Christmas Tree huntin'

Christmas traditions are the absolute best! Every year, I go shopping early in the morning on $aving$ Friday (some people call it "Black Friday", but I think that sounds depressing!) and Kep gets out all our Christmas decorations. Then, once I'm completely exhausted and I'm finished finding all the deals... we go cut down our tree! Yesterday marked our 6th year of marching through the snowy Alaskan woods to cut a tree. Therefore, we have never had a Christmas tree that would make the cover of any decorative magazine... but, it's always homey and homely! There are many benefits to our Christmas trees, as they:

• only take 1 minute to "saw" down! In Washington, my family used to go to a beautiful tree farm nestled in a valley of the Cascade Mountains. There were so many gorgeous, full trees that it took a 1/2 hour to choose and then 10 minutes to saw through the LARGE trunk!
• are free! We always get one tree for our living room, one tree for Mo-mos living room AND one tree to put lights on in our front yard! Good thing, they don't cost money because I love Christmas trees!
• show off every ornament because of the great gaps between every branch! And, the branches are so flimsy, they can only hold one ornament at the most!
• are very lightweight! Parker can even help pull the trees back to our truck!

Each year, Christmas gets more fun as our children are old enough to remember our traditions and appreciate them. This year, we sang "Oh, Christmas Tree" on our truck ride to get the tree!