Christmas Tree Adventures

Today was the day that it worked out for all of us to go get our Christmas trees. The boys got to sluff school for it. We had quite a bunch going. I had to find a sitter for Kate just so we would have room for everyone to fit on the way up. Amy, Thank You for taking her. It was good for me to know that she was with you and that she was in good hands. Thank you for doing that for me!
We all got loaded in. Nate, me, Tucker, Thadd, Norma, John and Celest in our car and in Dad's truck; Dad, Mom, Winni, Gerald, Reanna, Joe and Ashley. (Friends of Geralds.) We always go up past Danials Summit to the Main Canyon road. Well we got there and they had plowed the snow over the road. We couldn't make it on the road. We went a little farther hoping to find a road that we could make it up. That's when Daddy got stuck.
Everyone piled out, shoveling out snow and hooking the truck up to ours and trying to pull it out. It took about 20 minutes to finally get it out.
About this time, Daddy found out the water pump was going out on the truck. We wondered if it was a good idea to keep going but we didn't want to leave without a tree so we kept going.
We found another road and... Daddy got stuck again. Worse this time. So we let the kids get out and walk around. We tried to find a potty because some of us didn't go at the house when we make the kids go. (Me.) No potty was found. They got Daddy unstuck and we drove to find a potty and eat our lunch. We talked our options and went back a ways to find another road that we could make it up. We saw some trees a little bit from a road that we could drive down and ended up hiking to get to them. They were tiny, scrawny things but it was better than going home empty handed.
I have to say that is this the smallest tree that my parents have had in a long time. But Gerald hiked for Dad to get it for him and Dad did say that he wanted a small one. Mom told him he had to decorate it this year so he didn't want a big one. He wanted a smaller one than this one even.
I forgot to take the camera back with me when we hiked back to the trees, so I'm hoping that Celest will email me the few she got of Norma and Walle trying to walk throught the snow. Norma was swimming through the snow. It was so funny! And Walle... poor thing, couldn't be seen half the time because the snow was so deep.
I wish Thadd wasn't making a face in this picture. Oh well. Norma loved her scarf and my mom made these shirts for them. They were their, "cutting tree" shirts. It was an adventure this year, cutting down our trees, but we got one and that is all that matters. We may have not finished in time for Nate to make it to class for a quiz he really coulndn't have missed and we were half an hour late in picking up Kate from Amy's but it is all about the memories that we make. This will be one of the years we talk about forever.