Sat. December 8th, we had the unique opportunity of finding and cutting down our own Christmas tree this year. This is only the third tree (and Christmas) out of 11 we've had at home. Fortunately it wasn't raining and it didn't take too long to find one we liked. The branches were so low to the ground, however, that Jared had a tad bit of trouble sawing through the thick base of the trunk. Sensing this, Jake eventually said "Dad, why don't you let me help?" I assured Jake that though his offer was appreciated, if Dad was having some difficulty, Jake surely would too.
Shortly after, Jared managed to saw right through and bring that tree down. That's when Jared gave the boys a chance to saw on the tree trunk themselves. Both Jake and Cooper decided that was really hard work and Dad did a good job after all!
We hauled the tree back to where we started to pay for it and got it shaken (that was a first for me!) and watched it move "Mr. Incredible style" through a binding machine. (They really had to SHOVE it through the opening). Two hours after our start time and four days after moving in, we had a Christmas tree at our new house. Well, on our porch. Only to discover that the base was too big for our tree stand. Drats! That's when we got to meet our new Bishop who lives just a few streets down from us and ask to borrow his saw so we could literally trim our tree. Surely he's had stranger requests than that....
2 comments:
That is awesome!!! I would love to go cut our own tree! Aren't Bishop's great!
It's just like the Griswald Family Christmas tree. Hope you remembered to bring a saw.
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