No Tree Fall Down! Part One
Doug and I have a tradition of cutting down our own Christmas tree and dragging it out of the woods to take home. Last year we took the dogs on our great adventure. We ran around and Barnacle peed on things. It was great.
This year,no dogs :( But, we took the kids, a camera, and the video camera! Needless to say, we were a little more civilized with our approach to claiming our tree. We went to the local tree stand.
Sophie and Avery were very excited! We sang Christmas carols and talked about getting ready for Santa. The girls ran around and even found munchkin sized trees.
After about 15 minutes of running around and carrying on we finally found the perfect tree. It was about 7 feet tall and about 5 feet round. It was beautiful! We walked around and viewed it from all angles - yup this was it. Doug handed over the video camera and I was ready to capture the official cutting of the tree. The girls and I stepped back and got prepared to watch BaBa at work.
"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" All cutting comes to an immediate stop. We ask Avery, "What's the matter?" She cries, "NO TREE FALL DOWN!" We tried to reason with her. We told her that Santa needed us to put up a tree so he could have somewhere to put her presents. "Avery, Don't you want presents?" She said "No presents. No tree fall down." We told her we were going to decorate it all pretty for Santa. "No Santa." Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... do we have a future tree hugger in the crowd?
Well, we cut the tree down fast and called over a tree farm worker to drag our tree back to the truck. Apparently, we got over her upset pretty quickly because she was helping hang ornaments a few hours later :)
This year,no dogs :( But, we took the kids, a camera, and the video camera! Needless to say, we were a little more civilized with our approach to claiming our tree. We went to the local tree stand.
Sophie and Avery were very excited! We sang Christmas carols and talked about getting ready for Santa. The girls ran around and even found munchkin sized trees.
After about 15 minutes of running around and carrying on we finally found the perfect tree. It was about 7 feet tall and about 5 feet round. It was beautiful! We walked around and viewed it from all angles - yup this was it. Doug handed over the video camera and I was ready to capture the official cutting of the tree. The girls and I stepped back and got prepared to watch BaBa at work.
"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" All cutting comes to an immediate stop. We ask Avery, "What's the matter?" She cries, "NO TREE FALL DOWN!" We tried to reason with her. We told her that Santa needed us to put up a tree so he could have somewhere to put her presents. "Avery, Don't you want presents?" She said "No presents. No tree fall down." We told her we were going to decorate it all pretty for Santa. "No Santa." Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... do we have a future tree hugger in the crowd?
Well, we cut the tree down fast and called over a tree farm worker to drag our tree back to the truck. Apparently, we got over her upset pretty quickly because she was helping hang ornaments a few hours later :)
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