Our Christmas Tree Adventure

Friends of ours invited us to go Christmas Tree "shopping" the old fashion way. They invited us to join them trekking up into the mountains to find a Christmas tree in the woods. The real woods, not a Christmas tree farm. So we thought "why not". Neither of us had gone searching for a tree this way before and figured it would be a good family experience.

We headed off too the national forest and decided to go as high as we could...till we reached snow. So even though it was a mild, almost sunny day...by the time we made it up the mountain and reached the snow, it turned into a foggy, cloudy, some what snowy day. lol
We bundled ourselves us as best we could and made sure Jade had on plenty of layers. She seemed very interested in "all that white stuff" on the ground.
Some of other people who joined us had brought sleds, so Jade got a free ride while Dad pulled her up the hill.
Then, we decided to see if she'd like a real ride and down she went on the sled with her little friend steering in the back.
She did fine down the hill, but wanted mommy as soon as the sled stopped. lol
Then we went searching for our trees. JB showed Jade how you dust off the snow so you can see how the branches will lay. Jade loved knocking the snow off and pretty soon found a tree just her size she could knock all the snow off on.
But in the end, we opted to cut down a slightly larger tree.
By 12:45, Jade was pretty grumpy, tired and hungry. So this picture isn't all that great, but I had to get at least one shot with me:) Do you like my crazy outfit? hee, hee. I really need to look into getting a snow coat.
We made it home safe and sound, we had some fun and definatly made a good memory. Now I'm off to the store to find some fun, new, Christmas Decorations!