Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Tree Hunting

I can’t believe in my blog catching up I forgot about my blessed tree hunt!  Absolutely one of my most favorite days in the year, right up there with my birthday, the last day of school and every day of summer.  Anyways the day after Thanksgiving was the day of the annual Julian Christmas Tree Hunt.  It just added to the wonderful Thanksgiving we had.

We got a little delayed start since we forgot our permit at home and had to head back to get it, Bryan didn’t want to risk the up to $10,000 fine!  Luckily we were still in Salt Lake when we realized we had forgotten it.

It was a gorgeous sunny and quite warm day on the mountain. 

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Everyone enjoyed sledding and playing in the snow.

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Bryan put me on a time limit to find my perfect tree.  I managed to find one in the nick of time.

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Chopped it down, with some help from Bryan.

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And pushed it over to the ground, so much fun.  I didn’t get a picture of me then hauling it out of the mountain and down to the car.

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Lots of fun times eating and sledding.

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And listening to baby cry from the car that he was cold and hungry.  I think he and Yiska always end up in the car together.

The fun filled Julian weekend was topped off on Saturday with Nate and Aliska sealed in the Logan temple.  I have no picture to prove it, but I was there and it really happened.