Behold Our Family Christmas Tree!

Clark: "The Griswold family Christmas tree."
Ellen: "Isn't it a little big?"
Clark: "It's not big. It's just full."
Russ: "Dad, that thing wouldn't fit in our yard."
Clark: "It's not going in our yard Russ. It's going in our living room."
~ National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

McKenzie 'helping' her Daddy cut down the tree! Not quite as big as the Griswold's tree but still huge!

We love to get our Christmas tree early in the season and enjoy it for as long as possible. This year we headed out after have a 'Thanksgiving brunch' on November 30th with Grandma and Grandpa Z, Uncle Chris, Aunt Jennifer, Aunt Anne, cousin Patti and cousin Claire. We met up with Aunt Kacey, Uncle Eric, and cousins Nathan and Kayla at the tree farm.

Two years ago we waited until two weekends after Thanksgiving to get our trees and we got turned away at our usual tree farm because they were out of trees. So we set out exploring for a new place to get a tree and stumbled across a new tree farm that was down by the river and had been flooded a bit with all the rains. The price was right but we all discovered our trees were two toned from the flood waters. This year we tried that tree farm again and were surprised at the size of the trees - no need to worry about two toned trees since we would all have to cut several feet off our trees to get them in our houses. We got a beautiful tree and had an adventure trying to get it to stand up in our tree stand because the trunk is very narrow but it looks great and McKenzie is enjoying looking at all the pretty lights and ornaments.


McKenzie loves to look at the pictures on a digital camera - unfortunately she doesn't always allow you to actually take a picture because she's too interested in looking at them!


The cousins scouting for trees...

Matt loading our trees onto the tractor bed - these things were huge!