Tree Hunting

Caleb and I got back from Turkey weekend and we feel beyond blessed. I absolutely love family immediate and extended. There are things that went not as planned like Caleb getting a terrible a back ache that made him semi-immobile. It was hard to watch him suffer but he was such a trooper. It was great to watch the "Able Lincoln" movie with some of the Klinge siblings especially the quatity of popcorn and soda we consumed. Ha. So on the way home from Iowa we stopped at Budd Tree Farm in Albert Lea, MN and picked up our tree. It was necessary to watch the last of the bears game so when we got to the MN border the sun was a-leaving. We were not panicked as we didn't think it was going to take long to find our tree. We got lost, people. It was PITCH black when we got to the tree farm but Levi's, one of the ushers and great friend of Caleb, dad was willing to let us look. We drove around like mad men and then ran around to find prices. We thought we had taken enough money but we found out fast a real tree is not cheap so we looked for longer than we anticipated. Then, there it was. Just standing there.

We got a big, bushy (and very prickly) Christmas tree. Our very first family tree. It was beautiful. We took it to be paid for and we were off.

We lugged it on top of the camry and rode the whole 1.5 hours home to put it up the next day. This was a sentimental day for us and we are very pleased with it thus far.

Day or Night, Light or dark...we found it!