Last year we started the tradition of cutting down our own Christmas Tree. We really enjoy it and it is a lot of fun. This year, with Landon being full blown in peak, the only time we could find to go was on a Sunday after church. So, we loaded up and headed out with only the map from BLM to guide us. Dumb...I know.
The Christmas Tree cutting area was only supposed to be about 25 minutes from Tooele. After driving for about 45 minutes we still hadn't seen a road that looked like we could go on it. We drove back and forth down the same stretch of highway several times, for about 2 hours, looking for the place. Our neighbors, the Bybee's, had just gone out there the day before, but with sporadic cell service I was having a hard time getting a hold of them to have them help us. After the 2 hours we finally stopped and asked for directions from someone who looked local and we also got a hold of Adrienne who told us what we needed to do.
At this point it was almost dark and we weren't sure if we thought we should do it or not, but the reality of the fact that Landon would not have time to go out again until the next Sunday and by then we would be half way through December we decided to move forward in the dark.
We drove out to what we think was the cutting area, we may have stopped a little early and Landon got out and tried scouting for a tree in the dusk. Really all he could see was shapes of trees. We hadn't brought a real flashlight, but luckily Landon's cell phone has a flashlight on it. So, armed with just the flashlight on the cell phone we headed out to cut down what looked like a good shape of a tree.
The kids were soooo excited to finally be out of the car. They loved just running around although we kept having to get after them to stay close because it was so dark.
Ellen ended up with the job of holding the cell phone flashlight for Daddy while he tried to cut down the tree without cutting off his hand.
We were finally able to get it down and keep all of the children and the dog all together. Here is our Daddy hauling out his find.
And here is Kat and I all snuggled up to watch the events. She really liked being out there even though her little nose got cold.
While this years tree cutting trip didn't go as planned it still ended up being fun and a good memory for us. On the bright side, we now know where to go for next year so it should only take us half the time to cut down our tree.
And....Our tree that we picked out in the dark ended up being one of the prettiest trees we have ever gotten.
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