The Hunt is On....

Every year our family has a tradition of looking for the perfect real Christmas tree...I know we are probably one of the last families to still get a real tree. I usually do a lot of complaining but once we get on the hunt it is so much fun. Ryan likes to take his time and has an art to picking a tree with no holes. It has to be a perfect noble fur...nothing less will do. He has a system to finding a tree. He thinks it is better to go when it is later in the evening we went around 8:30, it needs to be really cold outside...not sure how cold it was this year but thankful it was not raining sleet like last year (it was a muddy mess) and we must visit multple lots to order to find the perfect tree.

At the first lot we all piled out of the car...stroller, baby, kids, diaper bag, camera, etc. I think you get the idea...chaos. We got hot coco walked around for about 15 minutes found a good tree but in order to confirm it was the one we had to go to another place just to make sure. We traveled about 4 miles to lot number two. I accidently deleted the fun family photo of us drinking hot chocholate at the first place and the tree.

Tree #2...still looking!

At the second lot everyone got out but no stroller. This lot had some good trees but not what the professional tree picker outer was looking for...so off to place number three 11 miles away.

Tree #3...still looking.

At the thrid lot Sadie was aleep in the car and Hayley didnt want to get out because it was to cold. So now we are down to 3 out of 5 judges on what tree were are going to pick. I was convienced we had found the perfect tree but Ryan wanted to check one more place to be positive...so off to lot number four 4 miles away. We all agree that if we didn't find one here that we could go back to the first place and get the original tree.
So sweet!

At least she made it to 2 out of 4 stops.

Tree #4
The winner! Wonder what tree Paige voted for?

At the fourth lot we walked around for about 10 minutes we found the perfect tree! They cut a little off the bottom and we loaded it up.

All in all we ended up with an amazing tree, although this tradition can be a bit wearing I am greatful for my husband's persistence in getting the "PERFECT" real tree every year!

Riley and this year's perfect Christmas tree!