Tree Farm

We had a busy day today. Kelly and the boys had to have her car at Romeo's to get inspected at 8:30am, Ben worked until noon, and when he got home from work, we headed to Gamble's Tree Farm to get our Christmas tree. After all that, we took the boys to Grandma's while we went Christmas shopping. We got home at 11pm and finally put the tree in the stand. We are going to leave it open-up overnight and decorate it tomorrow.

Let's rewind to our afternoon...

...Landon fell asleep on the way there and was a big bundle of joy when we got him out of the truck! Nanny was already there, so Kelly went in to the barn and asked her if she wanted to go up on the hill to find our trees. We were unable to drive the truck up this year because the ground was too soft and the owners didn't allow. Luckily, it wasn't too cold because we had to ride on the tractor up the hill to get our tree. The boys loved riding the tractor. That is all Landon really cared about. He was fussy and cold and wouldn't wear his gloves. We forced Mommy's gloves on him and he was fine while we waited for the tractor to return to take us back to the barn.

In the barn, they have all kinds of stuff that you can buy, food, hot chocolate, coffee, and candy. Nanny and Kelly had hot chocolate and Landon picked out this big "blue" star lollipop. Once Lukas saw that Landon had that he went and picked out a red one. After Kelly finished her hot cocoa, we paid for our tree and headed home.

After we got home, we changed our clothes and took the boys to Grandma's so we could do our "Santa" shopping. We went to Applebee's with his brother & girlfriend and had a very nice dinner before went shopping. We are 98% done with their shopping. We just have to pick up a couple more gifts and they are finished! We picked the boys up from Grandma's and got home around 11:00 and still had to put our tree in the stand. Poor Ben was going on 24 hours of no sleep. He was absolutely exhausted. We got a lot accomplished in one day and we are very proud of ourselves! Make sure to check back for our post on "trimming our tree"!

Oh yeah, we gave Lukas the honors of cutting the tree loose this year. He loved it! We swear, every Christmas just keeps getting better than the last:-)