Since we’ve been married, we’ve not had a live Christmas tree. But since we are jumping feet first into this whole Wyoming life, we got a real tree this year.
All we had to do was get an 8 dollar permit, and then trek up the mountain to pick out our tree.
It was snowing and windy. It’s a long ride on snow and ice, 11 miles up the mountain.
The journey took about an hour.
Basically our whole journey looked like this. As the rain/snow fell, it would freeze on the windshield. We couldn’t use the wipers.
It’s basically a step above Charlie Brown’s tree. It will do. It was 6 degrees with 20mph winds. We walked to it, cut it down, took the pictures and were back in the truck in about 5 to 10 minutes. We pretty much walked to one and said “Yes.” We saw the one for next year as we were driving away. It took us about an hour more to make it down the mountain. As we were going down, the cloud lifted or went further up than we were.
The tree has done really well. Hardly any needles have fallen off. Ruby decorated mostly the bottom half.
She likes to line things up. She likes order. J
We have a very small fake tree that she can play with and rearrange ornaments. She leaves the big tree alone.
Clara just likes to look and play.
Everyone enjoys the Christmas tree and we are looking forward to next year’s already.
Is Matt carrying Clara out there??? If so I must admit that is a pretty nifty setup