Our Christmas Tree Adventure

We had quite the fun adventure finding a Christmas tree this year. Every year we like to go cut our own tree, which sometimes can be frustrating, because you can never find the perfect tree. But it's the fun memories you make, that make it all worth it! This year we headed out with some of Nick's family and made the big loop from our house to Dubois to Island Park and then back home! It was so fun and a beautiful drive, but we somehow made it home without a tree. Everyone else (except Haley & Nick) and us found their trees. But Nick was too picky. Here's some pictures of our first hunt . . .

The girls with cousin, Kalli!

Lisa & Leland with their cute family and TREE!
Couldn't leave without making a snow angel!

And now, onto our next attempt.

The next day we decided to try again. It was a lovely drive . . . a cliff on one side of the narrow road and a raging, Snake river on the other! But really, it was beautiful. We saw lots of this- And this . . .
And these . . .
Some more of this . . .

And instead of beautiful pine trees, we saw lots of cedar trees and SAGEBRUSH!

So we did more of this. . .

We had no idea how far, or where this road went. But we kept going and going . . . until we started seeing "No trespassing, Private Property" signs, and decided we'd better turn around! At that point, we had already gone about 15-20 miles on this little dirt road! So we headed back. We found a place to pull off the road . . .
And we sent Nick off up the mountain. I told him not to come back without a tree in hand. Meanwhile, the girls and I took some pictures-

My sweet sister, Janelle, brought the girls these adorable sweaters from Peru this last summer. Don't they look so cute?!

Lucy had fun, playing in the snow . . . Kate got cold, and sat in the car . . . We waited . . . and waited . . . Then we heard something . . .
It was Nick . . . and he had a TREE! We were so excited.
That pretty much sums it up! We did have fun, even though we almost ended up with a sagebrush Christmas tree. Now we can't wait to head back to Lewisville, once Nick finishes up finals today, (Yes! That's one more semester down!) so we can enjoy our hard earned Christmas tree.