Because we were in Salt Lake for Thanksgiving, we were a week later getting our tree than normal. Mom and Dad looked around at Home Depot and Lowes and they just weren't happy with their choices and didn't want to pay $80. Uncle Steve and Aunt Becca had cut down a tree while Steve was hunting and Aunt Rachel and Uncle Troy always cut down their tree so Mom and Dad decided this was our year to do it!
And of course, it was a CRAZY, BUSY Saturday that we chose. Mom worked out at Red Mountain in the morning and then Dad had a cello performance at the Dickens Festival. We had never been to the Festival and we have all voted we won't go back. It was awful. So crowded only one way in and out. But Dad's music was fun and we got to see giant version of the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
So finally just a couple hours before daylight was gone, us big girls loaded up in Steve's borrowed truck with his borrowed saw and we set off. It was a classic Christmas Vacation scene in that Cara was crying because she was frozen. It was really cold and we couldn't find a great tree until the last second! It was hard work for dad using a broken saw, but he got it down!
We have never had this particular kind of pine before..it's a pinyon pine and it was really pokey! It was almost impossible to decorate. Mom and Dad had little scratches all over and we had to be super careful about where we hung the decorations or the branches would just slump. But we have loved it.
And it only fell over ONCE. Ha! And luckily it was before Mom and Dad went to bed so they quickly repaired it.
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