Christmas tree!

So up in Steamboat you can get a permit to cut down your own Christmas tree in the national forest for $10. What a fun family thing to do right?? So last year we all went up and I had all these visions of hot chocolate and hiking in and finding the perfect tree and dancing around it singing Christmas carols with the squirrels and bunnies looking on...

What really happened is Luke fell asleep on the way there and had a complete and utter meltdown in the snow and cold once we unwillingly woke him up...the snow was up to the kids' waists and there was no easy way for them to slog through it...it was incredibly cold...so I sat with a sobbing Luke while Sis played in the snow (she had a great time) and Jeff marched off and cut down and dragged out a tree by himself and he really could have used some help. Yeah...the world doesn't always look like an Instagram post, right?

So this year, Jeff was pretty adamant that it made sense for just he and I to go. So we had a little daytime date on Sunday...lunch at the Clark Store (they have the best hamburgers in the world) and then up to get our tree...there's so little snow this year it was easy to hike in and I could help and it was nice to have that special time with Jeff.

And once we were home the kids helped all afternoon with the decorating...Christmas carols and a gingerbread candle burning and we had such fun. So wins all around this year.

Thanks Jeff for making my Christmas tree dreams come true! :)

XO