The great Christmas tree hunt

To top off the holiday weekend, we went and cut our Christmas tree today. Not everyone could make it, and due to Covid, the free hot chocolate in the cute little cabin wasn't happening, but we still had fun. As usually happens, we wandered a bit, saw a tree we liked, stationed a child there so we could find it again, wandered quite a bit more, decided we didn't like any of the others we saw, went back to the first tree, and decided that it was the one. We do this every year. It makes at least one of the party a little annoyed and that party wishes we would just skip the vague wandering part of the schedule. But how do you know you want the first one you see until you have scoped out a good portion of the others? 




(Once again, pictures by children since I seem to have stopped even trying.)

Unbelievably, I think we have a time next week where everyone can make it to decorate the tree and have our usual tree trimming party. The more teens and adult children you have the trickier this type of scheduling becomes!
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To those of you who tried to watch the Q&A for the documentary today, I'm so sorry the link that was provided didn't work! I'm thankful for the people who did a little digging and found the correct one. If you missed it, it was recorded, and when I have a link, I'll share it here for those of you who are interested.

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