Cutting Down the Christmas Tree

For our first day of vacation we got to drive up into the mountains and cut down a little Christmas tree.  We always used to cut our own trees, but a couple of years ago Mom and Dad went to an artificial tree.  Dad promised Mom that she could still go tromp around the forest and get a little tree.

  This is the first year she got to do it.  She was happy as a clam.  We found a great tree farm not too far up the road.  It was beautiful, like a movie set.  There was this stream with waterfalls,

an antique truck to take you up

and back down the hill,

and a little cabin where you purchased the tree and got some hot cocoa.

It was a beautiful day.  Anna and Grandma picked out our perfect tree, David cut it while Grandpa held it.

  When we got home Michelle, Grandma and Anna decorated it

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