Eli is really into making movies with his new video camera he received on his birthday. The day after Thanksgiving we decided as a family to go cut down a Christmas tree for our house. Usually Heather, along with the kids and most of her family will congregate somewhere in the mountains of Nephi (about 3 hrs away or so), pay 5 bucks and cut down a 47 foot tree, strap it on the top of the car and bring it home. It sounded hard to do this year and way too far away. We found a tree farm closer to where we live that would let you go out in the vast array of Christmas trees, find the perfect match and then cut it down. When I say vast array I'm really being sarcastic. This farm had mostly "Grinch" type trees that hung weird no matter how you looked at em...or they looked half dead, or they just looked well,... stupid. We had to browse the whole place just to make sure we were getting the right one for us. Here's Eli's video of "tree hunting" that you certainly will enjoy (set to the Superman theme song). Blogger doesn't produce the greatest quality movies but this one is cool anyway. Enjoy:
The worst part of putting up the tree is...the lights! It's kinda like prepping for painting a wall...it blows! The fun part is putting the decorations on. The lights?...not so much.
Kate loves to sweep up any messes...or pine needles from
the tree. Liam prefers the vacuum
Harley makes sure we're doing it right
The tree...in all her glory.
Loving Eli's video of the "hunt" and also the finished product - very well done, family!
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