Cutting our Christmas Tree

One of the major benefits of living in Denver is the ability to drive into the mountains and cut down your own Christmas tree.  The weekend before Thanksgiving Naomi, Ryan, Matt, and I drove out to Winter Park to cut down our trees.  We were all going to be out of town the next two weekends, so it was either that weekend or just have the tree for 10 days.  All you have to do is go to the visitor center at Winter Park, get a $10 permit, a map of where to cut, and you're ready to go!

We had a lot of fun walking through the woods and scouting trees.  Matt and I found ours first so Matt and Ryan proceeded to cut down the tree, under the close supervision of Junior.

While Matt and I worked on getting our tree to our car, Naomi and Ryan found their tree.

We managed to fit both trees on top of Ryan and Naomi's car.  Thanks for hauling it back for us guys!

Skip ahead a week...we decorated it when we got back from Thanksgiving in Iowa.