If it was up to Parker this is what our tree would look like this year. 
He was not particularly excited about going and hunting for the perfect tree this year. We have a great artificial one, "so why do we need another one"? I can see his point, but of course, for me, it's all about making memories...traditions. We made hot chocolate, grabbed our gloves and headed to Red Lodge a 45 minute drive away. It took us 15 minutes to find the one and we were back on the road. No sledding this year since there was only a skiff of snow on the ground.
We went with two other famlies. The girls brought their cousin, Aspen, with us. They just moved here from Idaho, they live just 20 minutes South of us. 
Parker and his buddies, Andrew and David.
On our way home we stopped at the candy store on Main Street to satisfy our holiday sweet tooth...Montana monster fudge.
He was not particularly excited about going and hunting for the perfect tree this year. We have a great artificial one, "so why do we need another one"? I can see his point, but of course, for me, it's all about making memories...traditions. We made hot chocolate, grabbed our gloves and headed to Red Lodge a 45 minute drive away. It took us 15 minutes to find the one and we were back on the road. No sledding this year since there was only a skiff of snow on the ground.
We went with two other famlies. The girls brought their cousin, Aspen, with us. They just moved here from Idaho, they live just 20 minutes South of us. Parker and his buddies, Andrew and David.
On our way home we stopped at the candy store on Main Street to satisfy our holiday sweet tooth...Montana monster fudge.
7 comments:
parker is such a teenager! i love it! one day i will have a real tree...one day! now i want to see the photos of it all decorated!
There is something so gratifying about picking a tree from the woods. I am so willing to completely look past all the flaws. I am so picky if it comes from a store. Plus the smell is to die for. I love the Charlie Brown tree Parker liked.
Poor Parker. Hopefully he got a big piece of the Montana Monster or whatever that was called. I need some.
We have a fake one too and the other day I said to Steve... "Do you realize that our kids have NEVER had the experience of picking out a real tree... I Love the experience"
Maybe someday.
The Montana Monster looks yummy!
It looks like you guys had a lot of fun. JR would love to go to the mountains and pick our tree. We do get live trees we pick ours up at the smith store on Redwood rd. Alli enjoys going and looking for ours
your Montana monster looks yummy. Send us some. Yum Yum. Alli and mommy have a sweet tooth
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