Traditions!

Our family is the only family left to carry on the Phillips Family Tradition of going and finding the perfect REAL Christmas tree no matter how cold, no matter how far, no matter what life threatening experience we come across! With that in mind we decided to go and try to find the Alpine Tree Farm. Ron usually wakes up early Saturday morning, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, to go stand in line for 3-4 hours just to get a permit to cut our tree down. But we lucked out this year and were able to cut a tree in Alpine at the tree farm on Friday!! This was by far the easiest tree cutting we've ever had. There were rows and rows of trees to choose from so we spent about 2 hours looking when Taylor came across the perfect tree!! There was no snow to climb through, no scary ice roads to try to get up or slide down... hehehe! No worrying about which branch Ron was going to cut(above his feet or below his feet...hehehe!) We tagged our Tree and had the "Expert" come cut it down, load it on his 4 wheeler trailer and bring it to our car!


Jake wouldn't come get in the picture above because he was afraid he would lose his spot on the 4 wheeler. It was cute how the "expert " let the boys ride on the 4 wheeler to the car..... they thought that was the coolest!

And here I am with Emmie!

We love the tradition of cutting down our own tree. Ron says this every year...."I know it's a pain and a lot of work to cut a tree down but it's the memories and the experience of it all that is worth it!"

I totally agree!