For seventeen years now we have had a live Christmas tree, but we usually get one from The Home Depot or something. Since moving to New York, we found a Christmas tree farm just about 20 minutes from our home where we can go and walk through the tree farm and find the perfect tree.
This year was more fun than last year because we already had snow on the ground, so the kids could pile into the sleds that the owners had set out. Michael pulled them around for quite a while and they thought that was really fun. After walking by many, many trees, we finally settled on one and Michael cut it down for us. Then we had to drag it out to the dirt path and they brought a tractor down and hauled it up to our car for us. Maura says that it is the best part of Christmas!
