Today is the day we head over to Alpine to pick out our Christmas tree at the tree farm. It's tradition! The hard part comes as we all try to agree on what tree to choose.... not always easy to do with so many opinions. The only one that doesn't have an opinion is my Larry. I believe he would chop down the first tree he saw and get home within 20 minutes... Hmmm. Actually I don't think he would even go through the effort of having a tree. He does so many of these things just because it makes us happy :)
My favorite tree memory? About 10 years ago, Larry used bungie cords to tie the tree down to the top of our old blue van and as we drove down the freeway, the tree flipped off and landed in the middle of traffic. Larry kept driving and would not have stopped had it not been for all of our screams. He went back and reluctantly dragged the broken up tree off the road. Do you know what a tree looks like when it hits asphalt at 70 mph? Well it sure doesn't have a pretty side, but still we kept our tree and smiled at the memory that Christmas... we still do :)
-Brenda
