The Perfect Tree

This year we were invited out to our friends' property in ID to find our perfect Christmas Tree. We hiked for what seemed like forever and also took the opportunity to get a family photo for the 2011 Christmas Card.

The kids started out really excited. Our friend, Scott, gave each of the kids a whistle with the instructions that if they felt like they were lost they were to blow three times. What a great idea!

After a while the kids started to get warm...hats and gloves kept coming off.

They were wondering when we were going to find that perfect tree. We kept finding some but Daddy was never satisfied so we had to keep moving.

Marcus decided he found his and was ready to go!

Emma was soooooo tired...but put on a brave face.

Ok Mom...when is Daddy going to find that perfect tree???

Here it is! Ironically this is the same tree that is in the first picture of all of us. We literally picked this one out then kept on hiking and turned down others just to come back to this one. Should have stuck with first impressions...but oh well...it was fun to hike in the woods.

Finding the perfect tree brought back the energy in the kids. They ran behind Daddy trying to keep up back to the truck.

Marcus was going so fast he even rolled a few times. Typical little Marcus.

Here's the whole crew. The property we were on is our neighbors, Scott and Julie. They have 100 acres in ID just about 54 miles from our houses. After we all found our trees we had lunch and a little bon fire and just hung out for a few hours. It was perfect!

We didn't even make it off their property before all three kids were sound asleep.

They did wake up quickly to see the bison along the way. There were a lot of them! Pretty cool! The tree is in our living room now waiting to be trimmed down and decorated. We will more than likely decorate tomorrow. I'll be sure to post pictures of the Completed Perfect Tree soon :-)