As always with my life this was an adventure.
As most of you know Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year! So when I told Tristan that I was coming back for the winter, the first thing he said was that we could go and cut down our own Christmas tree. It has been years since I have had a real tree and I have never cut my own down so I was super excited!
So last Saturday we headed out to Slivis Lake trail to the designated area where you are allowed to cut Christmas trees. It was raining when we woke up...but by the time we drove out South the sun was peaking out from the clouds every so often. Although it was still cold enough that some of the snow that had fallen the week before was still on the ground. We hiked a little way up and then made our way down into the Muskeg (basically a swamp). It was cold enough that the muskeg was frozen over so we didn't have to worry about sinking! 
We searched all around the muskeg for the right tree. Tristan insisted that we have a Bull Pine...so we looked all around to find the perfect one. Well it turns out that the perfect one was actually the top of a larger tree. So up the tree Tristan went with his saw to cut it down as Siren and I watched.
After he cut it down and we trimmed it down to the size we needed, back down the mountain we headed. Thankfully the Christmas tree area isn't too far up the trail, and the trail is an old logging road so its not too bad. Then Tristan got the tree all tied on top of the little bug!
Once we got the tree home then the real adventure began. Our tree stand is a little bucket that uses rocks to hold the tree up. So we had to perfectly position the tree with the rocks so that it wouldn't fall down. Then we realized we didn't have have enough lights so off to the worlds smallest Walmart we went. I ran inside and grabbed another string of lights.
Our ornaments are the entire collection of characters from the original Rudolf that Paula and I found on sale at CVS on Christmas Eve in 2001. So daddy mailed them up for me along with a few other wooden ornaments. And our tree skirt was made by Tristan's mom when he was a little kid. We also found stockings that she had also made and they are hanging up near our tree (we don't have a fireplace)! 
Other than finding a tree I have basically been working. i have been subbing in a pre-school class for the last 2 weeks and I'll be there through Thursday when Christmas break starts. We have been studying dinosaurs. We have made fossil cookies, skeletons out of pasta, and volcanoes. This week is their Christmas program so I will be helping with that on Monday night.
We took Siren on a walk today and I saw a few little snow flurries. The mountains have been covered with snow for a while, but they are calling for the first snow here in town tomorrow. Then basically the whole end of the week it is supposed to snow. I'm looking forward to Christmas break so that there can be lots more adventures!
I promise to post pictures of the snow in the next few weeks. Until then enjoy the Christmas season!!!
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