Traditions never die! Every year in the early part of November we wake up at 5 am and drive to Heber to stand in line freezing for a Christmas Tree permit. Then the weekend of thanksgiving we drive back up to Heber/Kamas area to Cut the perfect Christmas Tree! After hours of Hiking, arguing and sweat we usually pick the last tree we see because we've seen a bazillion of them and don't even care if the tree is dead, just cut it down and let's go! This year Ethan was old enough to come our of the car and hike with us...He didn't mind it for the first 5 min, but after that he was in the car with daddy because daddy can't pick out the right Christmas tree...So he makes the 6 month prego mommy go hike up the mountain just to find the perfect Christmas tree 20 feet away from the car. After we cut it down we realized it was kinda dead or dying. We got it home and cut most of the bottom off and Bam! We got a really good looking tree. Most the time we all think we have charlie brown trees, but after we get them home and dress them all up they are always fantastic trees! I'll have to post some pictures of it when we get it decorated!
Afterwards we all went out to eat at the only "Authentic" Diner west of the Mississippi! I'd give the food a 4 out of 10 and the fry sauce a 11 out of 10! I'd go there again just to get the fry sauce! Hmmmmm.....Sooooo.....GOOOOD!
Afterwards we all went out to eat at the only "Authentic" Diner west of the Mississippi! I'd give the food a 4 out of 10 and the fry sauce a 11 out of 10! I'd go there again just to get the fry sauce! Hmmmmm.....Sooooo.....GOOOOD!
3 comments:
that looks like a great tree! That was always a fun tradition and I am glad you kept it up, I miss doing it.
You're so funny Robyn! That does sound like a fun tradition.
I love that picture of Ethan at dinner...he's so cute! :)
Sounds like fun!!! I wouldn't even try the whole christmas tree thing here, too many people and they probably think it's evil to cut down trees:) Ha ha, but you and fry sauce!! Oh my gosh, I still think of you occasionally when I'm loving a good dish of fries and fry sauce. When I was home for thanksgiving we drove past the sconecutter and I just laughed, remember how many times we went there in the middle of the night and how many packets we had to ask for? Awesome! It was all worth it and I'd do it again today.
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