The holiday season has arrived! This year we are excited to announce that we have graduated to a real Christmas tree. We've never been able to have a real one since we've been married - so we went for the real deal this year. Yes, we cut our own tree down off of a mountain.
In Washington, you can buy a permit to cut down a tree anywhere in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, so that's exactly what we did. I mentioned the idea of going to a nice tree farm to cut one down. I mean, namely it was the idea of sipping cocoa afterwards that made it so appealing. But Luke took it to the next level (as usual) and we found ourself driving an hour and a half out of the city to get our beloved Christmas tree on Friday afternoon in the pouring rain.
We thought that the forest would be full of those lush, green Douglas Firs that come to mind when thinking of Christmas trees. But, we soon realized that we were not going to find that exactly. A lot of the trees are only full on one side, where the light hits.
Meandering through the woods...
Luke's tools... which, I may have left on the top of the mountain. We didn't realize until we were 20 minutes down the mountain that they were still up there. I promised to buy him new ones :)
Searching for our tree.
After searching for well over an hour, we found our perfect tree. It may not be what we had thought we would find, but it is perfect to us!
After we got it home, we realized it was a little too tall.
A man and his tree.
It may resemble more of a shrub, but we love it :) Merry Christmas, everyone!
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