My mother is out for a visit, so I haven’t had much time for blogging. But I did want to share some photos.
We went to get a Christmas tree yesterday from our local tree farm. The farm is actually about 2 miles down the road from us, and we pass it on the way to Phoebe’s daycare. Remarkably, though, this was the first year we’ve managed to go there for a tree. (We’ve been there for blueberry picking, though.) We don’t always get a tree, since we tend to travel for Christmas. And then the times when we have gotten a tree, we’ve gone too late for the tree farm. (They seem to close for the season about a week before Christmas.)
Anyhow, it was a lot of fun. We had our first snow of the season overnight, so things were looking particularly wintery and festive.
Finally, here’s the video I like to call “shaking the tree.” (Alternately, you may prefer to watch this YouTube of a different Shaking the Tree.)
collecting tokens 
This is so cozy, it made me smile
between the blueberry breakfast yesterday and the tree hunt today i don’t think your blog could get any cuter :)
What a big tree farm! Phoebe is an expert tree hunter! A perfect specimen.
Nice coat you have. It looks like suede?
I wanted a particular tree (long-needled Scotch pine) so we went to a small place where I had seen some near the road. We had a bit more snow than you, and wasn’t it perfect? The guy at the tree farm seemed a bit addled in the head, later confirmed by the fact that although he stated the price for trees as $35, he had no five dollar bills for change. I wonder how many trees he ended up selling for $30 that day?
Theo’s little face in the first shot is priceless. Nice tree, too!
A fine choice! We’re getting our tree this Sat. Miss M (and me) can hardly wait.
Oy it looks COLD there. Phoebe is so cute in that “hunting the tree” picture where she looks like she’s totally on a mission.
I love the picture of you and Theo!
How festive. But, it looks cold. I would totally love skiing much more if it didn’t have to take place in such cold.
We have a fake tree which is beautiful, but very very fake. I think I can smell the goodness of your tree.
Dance, tree! Dance!
Great photos!
I love the pictures (especially Theo’s little red nose and Phoebe’s look of triumph as she pulls the tree!). Really made me miss all the trees of my childhood. I haven’t had a live tree since the first year I lived in Brooklyn when my sister and I went out on Christmas Eve and got a love tall tree for something crazy like $10 because it was the night before Christmas and the guy clearly wanted to get out of there and felt sorry for us! Hmm … time to think about a real tree again? I’ll have to do some serious training with the cats, I fear.
I was telling my husband how we have Christmas tree farms the other day and he looked at me like I was crazy. We DO get a real tree every year, but I guess he feels like enough of a martyr driving me to the store and listening to me wine about how I want the biggest one.
Great pictures! We did the same thing last weekend, but I’m not together enough this week to get my pictures up.
Alejna, can you really keep a Christmas tree alive for 3 weeks?
look at you, picking and cutting your tree at a tree farm! you’re living my dream. sigh.
(love your red coat!)
I love the photos. The kids are cute, you are cute, the squat trees are cute, and your mom is a cutie with that blue (purple?) beret. You’ve exceeded your cute bandwidth for this month.