We found our Christmas tree!

This is Jon. As we have done five out of the last six years, we've taken to the forest with a saw and a forest pass to stake our claim on a Christmas tree deep in the woods. Usually we don't head out until December, but we were feeling festive a couple of days after Thanksgiving.

We parked across the highway from the Mineral Springs camping area in the Wenatchee National Forest on our way up Blewett Pass on Highway 97. After playing Frogger with the cars and trucks at 60 mph (Addy won) we trekked through the snow. I'm not sure if it's the most snow we've had during our excursion for a tree, but there was plenty on the ground that got very deep the farther away we got from the campground.

Yes, bathroom break. Yes, this is 3 minutes after we started. Yes, I stood there waiting patiently.

The above pic is proof that the girls could not stop eating snow. We weren't discouraging eating the snow, but that's what they did the entire time when they weren't throwing snow at each other.

Daddy, Addy and Delaney! In my left hand (protected of course) is my 20" raker tooth saw. That's all man right there.

Beautiful Brittany!

My girls frolicking in the snow.

We found our tree. My guess is it was about 11 feet tall (you can't cut down anything taller than 15 feet), which allowed me to trim it up a bit once we got home.

Picture doesn't do the scene justice.