Our NEW family tradition...at least we think!

So last saturday we loaded up the kidos along with my Dad and Kari and made a LONG trek up into the Wenatchee National Forest on the south side of Lake Chelan to find ourselves a Christmas tree. This proved to be quite the trip. Dad and Kari took Lainee which proved to be the EASY child. Jaxon evidently was feeling a little car sick upson our leaving town...can you see where this is going??? He slept and was great and then as we wound our way down the lake and up the mountain he kept say "My mouf hurts" this is what he says when he is not feeling well. And just as I was tlaking to him here it comes....ya fun, I tell ya! So I have come to the conclusion that riding in the back seat of Dan's big truck is what does it! He cannot see out the front window, and as his Mother has been afflicted with for years, causing us to get sick in the car!! So we drove up and down this stinkin mountain and round and round for which seemed like FOREVER to me with the lovely smell invading my breathing space. We FINALLY found a spot that we thought would be nice and got out and hiked all over. Up and down, down and up. Don't you know this is a BLAST when you have a person the same height as the under brush :) and a little person strapped to the front of you as you walk up and down trying to stay balanced and not fall over! I am sure I was a sight for sore eyes!! lol!! So after much dilberation, we found THE TREE!! And of course my handy husband cannot bring a real saw with us, he has to bring the power tools and in about 30 seconds the tree was being loaded into our truck! I you remember back I did tell you my Dad came along as well. I think he does not realize how big trees are when they are standing. He found this tree that he REALLY wanted.....I promise you it was easily 25 feet tall and laws prohibit you from cutting a tree no more than 15 feet tall. So after we talked and talked and finally conviced him to keep looking he settled for another mu SMALL tree....only 14 1/2 feet tall...for his 12 foot ceilings mind you! We cut a tree that we thought would fit our room perfectly and we were pretty close, only cutting off about 6 inches...for our 9 foot ceilings. So after all the trees were loaded we jumped in the trucks to head to Wenatchee to eat at Applebee's. Upon getting back in the truck Jaxon starts to compain about his mouth again and yes it happens AGAIN!! This point I am dying. I of course being the planner that I am, brought NO CLOTHES for Jaxon, just Lainee! Jax finally falls asleep and before we can go in to eat I have to go to Target and buy the kid some clean clothes. Then we were finally able to eat a very yummy lunch, that was much deserved after all our hiking, cleaning up yucky stuff, and LONG car ride! So ya...all in all we had a good day and had a GREAT time hiking through the great outdoors. Isn't it amazing how God creates such a beautiful world for us to be in? The experience of hiking with the kids was actually a lot of fun and we are thinking about making this our family tradition each year. Loading up and hiking into the forest with the kidos to find our perfect tree. You could not buy family fun for the 5 bucks for a tag and a tank of gas these days!! The only bad part is that fresh from the forest trees are very sparce and have very weak limbs, and I of course love those thick lush trees, that are so full you can barely get an ornament on it. But I will side with my husband and go with the fresh tree and all the fun that comes with it!


So after all my babbling here are a few pics to commemorate our trip!