O Christmas Tree

This year we decided to cut down our own Christmas tree for the first time. We headed up towards Mesa Falls to find our perfect tree. In the process we had a fun adventure. It hadn't snowed a ton, but enough that the road was rutted out. We ended up getting sucked off the shoulder and stuck. Lucky for us, there was a truck behind us to pull us out. The only problem was that we couldn't turn around. We thought about backing down the mountain but decided to press forward, staying in the tracks until we got to the turn around at the falls. Great idea until we got there and some super smart couple on a date decided to park their acura car right in the middle of the road while they took a hike to the falls. No one could get around them. So we parked and headed into the forest with the kids. Only there were no pretty trees to be found unless they were 40 feet high. So back to the car we went. After laying on the horn to try and get the attention of the car owners with no luck, we started backing down the mountain. The whole time poor Tyler was sitting in the back making comments about how this was the "worst idea we've ever had!" and "we're never gonna get home like this" and on and on. We made it back to lower Mesa and decided to turn around...and got stuck. By now it was about 4:00 and starting to get dark and NO ONE else was around. By now Tyler was having a full on heart attack that we were stranded, no one was going to find us, we were going to strave and die right there in our car. But using the mad skills we have, me and Eli managed to get us out...an inch at a time. Once we were turned around, Eli and the boys decided to head back out while I stayed in with the girls. Allie was frozen and Gracie was hungry, of course. After about 20 minutes the boys appeared dragging our perfect Christmas tree behind. It worked out perfect! We made it down from the mountain just in time to enjoy a beautiful Idaho sunset!

Into the forest we go!

Time out for playing!

Doesn't get any prettier than that.