The Quest for the Perfect Tree...

AJ fell asleep on the way out to the tree farm. I think he was so bundled up and warm that he couldn't keep his eyes open.

Tromping out to where the trees are...

I was hiding in the trees taking pictures of him marveling at the snow.

He finally discovered me taking pictures of him from behind a tree!

AJ is probably thinking... 'Could you possibly get this sappy tree any closer to my face?' He wasn't too happy on the way home.

The finished product! The tree is finally up, decorated and clean all around! Our tree has a star theme and most of the ornaments on it either are stars or have a star somewhere on them. Would you expect anything different from the girl obsessed with stars?!?!? The tree though is a little less decorated than in the past. What can I say now that we have a little boy at a stinker age? He is fascinated with the lights more than anything and when he sees the pretty lights he says 'woooooo!' Christmas is going to be fun this year!!

So Steve, AJ & I bundled up (although Steve & I did not bundle enough!) and went out to search for the perfect tree at Paulson's Farm this past weekend. It sure was cold when the wind kicked up. So we all tromped out into the woods/field (AJ's mitten must have fallen off 6 times) looking and looking. The trees that we thought had a good shape were either too dry (it was a bad year for Christmas trees in the area) or were clumped together with other trees and didn't have one of their sides or something like that. There were plenty that were 30 feet tall and they told us that we could cut the whole thing down to get the top 10 feet but that just seemed like such a waste. So after standing around for what seemed like forever and freezing our bums off, we hiked back to the pre-cut tree section and found the tallest, best looking one we could find.