Christmas Tree Adventure...

The Turner Family invited us along to head up Kelly Canyon and cut down our own Christmas tree this year. So we packed our families together (which included 7 kids) and headed on up!

We were are pretty excited. We parked at the ski lodge and were told to hike till you found the tree you wanted... sounds pretty simple right?.....

First, this little girl really thought she should walk the whole way (can I just say BABY steps!) and wouldNOT wear her gloves... hence her hands in the pocket, which, by the way, make her baby steps even smaller...

This is Lisa Turner and yes, that is a 5 month old baby she carried ALL day!!

Macey and Austin...

There we go!

Why kids love eating snow I'll never know, but it's a good thing. We took off about noon on this hike and didn't get back till 5... so it's a good thing they had something to snack on and hydrate them at the same time!

Still walking. A little further than we had anticipated...

Macey and her good friend Nolan...

Baby Bennett... AKA ROCKSTAR! This kid did not make a peep the whole time... oh, except for the time I told Macey to stop throwing snow at Lisa and so she threw it right in Bennett's face instead, but otherwise... nothing!!

Hiking to find a tree off the trail...

Right before the snow in the face incident!

Wanting to hike up to took for a tree with his Daddy...

There they are! Unfortunately, this hike didn't get us a tree. Do you see how high that snow is? You sink wast deep with every step!

So Matt decided he was going to see if the truck could make it up the trail and head to the top to turn around and look for trees...

The rest of us waited and prayed he'd make it back and not get stuck! Which he finally did! So Jeremy and Matt (and Macey somehow got in there!) headed up to look for trees while the kids...

rested from their long walk by making snow forts! (Whatever entertains, right?!)

Jacer!

Austin!

Lisa and I finally decided they must have gotten stuck somewhere, so we headed back to the ski logde and boy were we happy to get there! There was a fire and it was just nice to get back inside someplace warm for a bit!

And not too long after us, the guys made it down with 2 trees! I'd been seriously thinking the worst. That they were stuck up there and they'd come walking down and the whole day just woulda been a bust... but nope, Matt and Jeremy pulled it off and we were SO grateful!

Best part of it all was on the ride home, Marin says, "This will be a day I will never forget!"

Mission Accomplished!!

We loveingly refer to it as our "Charlie Brown Christmas bush", but we love it! It took a lot of work to get this baby but well worth it! :)