Enjoying the cold spell

This is Jon. It got dang cold last week with night time wind chills in the single digit negatives and day time highs of low single digits, obviously awesome tree hunting weather. We were going to go the weekend before (especially since it was in the high 20s/low 30s) but schedule's got fouled up.
The girls, frolicking in the parking lot near Blewett Pass. This is where we had gone the year before, had some success, but we decided on taking a different trail from the same parking lot. It was about 20 seconds after this picture was taken when we realized that two layers wasn't enough for Adelyn. She and Mommy stayed back in the warmth of the heated seats and a warm car.
Dee stuck with it and ventured into the great, snowy, cold unknown. We enjoyed the sled and a few hills when she realized that two layers wasn't enough for her either. So we backtracked a bit so she could enjoy the warmth of heated seats and a warm car.
The third trip out was the charm. It took me 45 lonely and very cold and quiet minutes, but I found this year's tree.
Me, trying to figure out for the seventh or eight straight year why I don't ever consider strapping the tree to the roof instead of in the trunk.
Christmas in Kittitas, the girls are hanging out with Santa. I kind of got the hint that they knew this wasn't the "real one."
Decorating the tree!
Adelyn's "neighborhood" as she called it. A huge cluster of ornaments on one unbalanced limb.
We got the star on, it just took a bit of improvising.

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