Now that you all know about the 1st attempt of a Christmas tree search, we will now move on to the REAL search for a Brower Perfected tree. Does Charlie Brown know anything about looking for the perfect tree? Well, I think he did because he wouldn't have found the Lucy tree if he was looking in our forest, there was not a Perfect one around! So we looked for the tree that has the least branches missing or one that we can face part of against the wall (like the guy in CHRISTMAS STORY tried to sell their family. Know what I am talking about?
We finally found a tree that would work, set up the hot cocoa to simmer, got out the guns to shot the pumpkins we had left over from halloween and thanksgiving (what?! You don't think we need to say goodbye to the old holidays?) and sat in the truck until we could warm up since the hot cocoa was taking so long!
Here is our journey through pictures:
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Tree Time!
Okay, so we started after church to Pine Valley for our annual Christmas Tree hunt! It had snow the night before and early in the morning and we thought it would be fun to have a hunt, go tubing and drink some hot cocoa. But this was not to be, On our way up the hill, we saw a van off the road and then 5 to 7 men on each side of the road throwing snowballs at each other. Clearly these men were from a different country where there wasn't any snow. We decided to take two cars so that we could bring the ATV for tubing, and the Explorer so that we could also bring home the tree. Matt and I drove up to the snow throwing men and they stopped and then Devin who was right behind us slowed down and they started up again.
Matt and I got to the turn-off and there was no Kids behind us, I started getting worried (i am a Field okay?) and told Matt that not having Devin behind us was not a good sign. Then low and behold, here come a few blond children running up the road (we were maybe 500 feet away from the previous slowdown.) Kyler tells us that Devin slid, a lady heading in the other direction slid and Devin hit her car. When we drive back yes, there is her car, there is our explorer and there is Devin frustrated as all get out. He said that he couldn't turn to the right because the snow throwers were there, she couldn't turn to her right because there was the snow throwers there too, so they ended up sliding into each other.
This car hitting incident by the way gave me a good excuse to reinforce the reason that Devin drives the Explorer and not a let's say a jeep, because this is what the ladies car looked like and not a scratch on Devin's explorer.
While we were standing waiting for the Police to arrive there were about 10 other cars that almost slid off the road, (one car in the far left of the picture ended up doing a 360*,) or hit other cars. 2 cars including the van on the side of the road didn't have four-wheel drive and couldn't make it up the hill, including the sheriff's car that they sent to take car of the problem at hand.
We ended up waiting a total of 2 hours while the sheriff's car went back down the hill and waited for a sheriff's truck to get the officer up the hill! Duh, could we have thought of that before?
Funny thing, those nice snow thrower's?! They changed their van tire and left an hour before the police showed up. By the time everything was taken care of it was 5 o'clock and so I decided that we should try to get a tree for another time....
Matt and I got to the turn-off and there was no Kids behind us, I started getting worried (i am a Field okay?) and told Matt that not having Devin behind us was not a good sign. Then low and behold, here come a few blond children running up the road (we were maybe 500 feet away from the previous slowdown.) Kyler tells us that Devin slid, a lady heading in the other direction slid and Devin hit her car. When we drive back yes, there is her car, there is our explorer and there is Devin frustrated as all get out. He said that he couldn't turn to the right because the snow throwers were there, she couldn't turn to her right because there was the snow throwers there too, so they ended up sliding into each other.
This car hitting incident by the way gave me a good excuse to reinforce the reason that Devin drives the Explorer and not a let's say a jeep, because this is what the ladies car looked like and not a scratch on Devin's explorer.
While we were standing waiting for the Police to arrive there were about 10 other cars that almost slid off the road, (one car in the far left of the picture ended up doing a 360*,) or hit other cars. 2 cars including the van on the side of the road didn't have four-wheel drive and couldn't make it up the hill, including the sheriff's car that they sent to take car of the problem at hand.
We ended up waiting a total of 2 hours while the sheriff's car went back down the hill and waited for a sheriff's truck to get the officer up the hill! Duh, could we have thought of that before?
Funny thing, those nice snow thrower's?! They changed their van tire and left an hour before the police showed up. By the time everything was taken care of it was 5 o'clock and so I decided that we should try to get a tree for another time....
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