never a dull moment: Oh Christmas tree...

Have I mentioned how much I LOOOOOOVE Christmas time! Every year when I was little my family would venture out to the Christmas tree farm and cut down our tree. Well, since having our own little family, we have only had a fake tree. So this year we put up our fake tree and then decided to go get another smaller tree.

Adam off exploring on his own.

Ava making sure he is okay...neither of them
are really interested in the tree finding or cutting

Very content with his new sticks.
That's what we were there for.

Off we went to the Elgin Christmas Tree Farm, with bells on. The kids had fun cutting down our little Charlie Brown tree. But, they had the most fun playing with sticks in the dirt and sword fighting with the sticks that they just had to bring home. Really??? We have sticks all over the back yard and you are throwing a fit to bring the "special sticks" home. Adam decided he would follow another family around for a little while and hang with them. Ava did not like that one bit. "Adam Joseph, you better get over here right now or you're gonna be in big trouble!" His response to this was a "you gotta be kidding" look, a very assertive "NO" and ran away in the opposite direction of Ava. She was honestly just trying to be motherly to him and keep him with us, but he wanted to be his little independent self, so off he went. She was almost in tears, so I got him back on track with us and they played with the sticks and dirt some more.

Another fun moment. There were signs all over "Please watch for stickers and fire ants". And even though we specifically said not to sit down on the ground...they did...and we were in screaming sticker city. Both of them at the same time. They had stickers everywhere...on their butts, shoes, shirts. Man those things hurt. So our last few minutes in the tree area were no fun, but that was easily forgotten by the hay ride back to the front with our little tree.

The tree they picked is somewhat of a crooked little tree, but it's their tree and it's going in their playroom. Okay, it is totally crooked, but I just try not to look at it so much. I really had to put my OCD thoughts aside and allow them to choose their first tree.

Afterwards, since we were in Elgin, we went to eat some bbq. Yum! Nothing like a bunch of greasy meat to end our day. Then the kids had some ice cream to solidify the fat they had just ingested. Hmmm...what could be considered vegetables or at least somewhat nutritional in that meal? At least they had something that consisted of milk.

We had fun, and I hope to make this a tradition for them as it was for me growing up.

YEAH CHRISTMAS!!!

P.S.- does anyone really know the words to the song "Oh Christmas Tree"? I haven't a clue.