What a glorious few days we have had here in the Vruggink household! A fabulous Thanksgiving with both sides of the family, play time, catch up time, rest time, shopping time and just all in all a great time. We decided to keep up the excitement and head out hunting for our Christmas tree! Last year was my very first year with a real tree and I was not all that amused with the constant dropping of pine needles as soon as we brought it in the house up until we took it out. It was pre-cut, so Tor talked me in to trying to cut one fresh this year. At first I was a little disappointed because I was not seeing "the one".
Haiden decided he needed to bring a long a saw like daddy and he was right behind him not wanting to miss his chance to help! It was so cute to see him strutting all over looking for a tree with a little plastic saw!
He pretty much tried to saw anything he could reach!
And of course Cameron is not into the toy saws anymore and just thinks he needs to use what Daddy does.
After about 20 minutes of "what about this one?" and "this one might work but look over there" and "this one is to fat/short/thin/pokey" we found our Christmas tree...the perfect one!
It was a quick chop down(after Haiden got to "saw" it, a few photo ops, a dropped camera case in sap, then Cameron's turn to saw and a relocation of where Haiden explored off to--ha!) and we headed back(a LONG way) back to the van. Cameron was the photo man(not the most centered pic above but I guess this is what an almost 6 year old sees!) and Haiden tagged along at the top hanging on to his saw and the very tippy top branch of the tree(you know, where the star goes--not sure if it has a name and if it does I cannot think of it!) Anyway, it was too cute but between stops for me to switch arms, let Haiden catch back on and Cameron(well, he actually kept up pretty good on this trip) I did not get a pic of him.
It was a great day to get a tree and we got it up and in the house before the rain came. The lights are on(I am so in love with colored lights for trees now that I have kids!!) and the ornaments are in the box ready to be put on tomorrow! Hopefully pictures of the finished product will be up soon after, but seriously, no promises for this blog lately!
And so far....no needles to pick up ;)
