O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

My family has a tradition each year to drive to the mountains and cut down our Christmas Trees. It is one of my favorite parts of Christmas. We usually go the weekend after Thanksgiving but because many of us were out of town we went the first weekend in December. We drove down to Delta on Friday night and although there was not any snow, it started to snow on our way. We had our truck with 4-wheel drive and thought that would be good enough since there wasn't any snow already on the ground, not even in the mountains.

Well, Friday night it snowed a ton! We woke up to several inches at my parents house and as we drove into the mountains there was more and more.

We took my parents van until the snow was too deep then we all piled into our truck and kept going.


The further we went the more snow there was. I don't think I have ever seen that much snow in these mountains, at least that I can remember. It was beautiful though.

We kept driving until the snow was just too deep for the truck. It was at least a foot deep and it was still snowing pretty hard! Even with 4 low on the truck would just spin the snow and make it slick so it couldn't get traction. We weren't even close to where we could find some decent trees and we didn't want to have to walk forever to find and then drag the trees back to the truck. So, some of us got out of the truck and became the road crew!


We would clear as much snow as we could off the road, making tracks for the tires on the truck to follow. It worked but man it was hard work. I think it was the best thigh workout I've ever had! We were able to go far enough where we only had to hike a little bit with our trees and we could turn around in the truck to come back down.

We sure had a lot of fun in the winter wonderland.


We got 6 trees in all, and we were much faster in finding them this year. We weren't quite as picky!

Here's our tree train as we dragged all 6 trees back to the truck.

Update

Since, I haven't blogged in a while I decided it was past time for an update.

We had a fabulous Halloween Party at my sisters house in Orem. I decided to borrow my younger sisters cool witch costume and make Gichin a cape so he could be Dracula. He was a very good sport and went all out with the face paint and hair spray. My niece Kait made the cutest Unicorn ever!

Of course we had to get a picture of Gichin sucking my blood!

Quite the fancy costumes if I do say so myself!

What a scary bunch!

In November we attended our yearly BYU game. Gichin's not the biggest fan of watching football, but he lets me drag him to one a year!

My two younger sisters, Brooke and Dani, came up to stay for a weekend in November. It turned out to be a beautiful, sunny weekend so we went miniature golfing.


My Aunt Wendy had a gift certificate for Red Lobster that she got for her birthday so when she came up to Provo with my grandparents and mom for some doctor and dentist appointments she took us out for lunch. I had never been to Red Lobster before and it was delicious!

Kait also had a very fun time making a mess and looking very cute as always!

For Thanksgiving we went to Idaho to spend it with Grandma Marsden. It was very cold but only a little snow.
These next two pictures were taken at Warm Springs where it comes directly out of the mountain. It looked really cool with the frozen ice and snow next to the running water.


Gichin and Tyler had a blast trying to break the thin layer of ice on the river!

Idaho is so beautiful!