Oh Christmas Tree...

this is our first time to go out in the forest and cut down a christmas tree. ryan and his family used to do it, but i only partly remember doing it like maybe one time when i was young.
it meant a lot to me and i hope we can have it as a family tradition.  
(thanks jeff v. for driving us all the way there and packing our tree all the way back)

  
jeff found his tree first and it was a lot taller than it looked at a distance....

i think it was around 11 feet. but it was such a good looking tree, ryan and i got a little jealous. and so we were really on the hunt to find our perfect tree. not just any tree... a very tall tree. to fit in our very tall ceiling home. we drove up and down the road and up and down and back and forth. but then... we found one.


12.5 feet tall.