Family Fun – Love Creates a Home

My family just got back from an After-Thanksgiving-Day-Christmas-Preparation- Weekend. My cousin has most recently moved to the countryside of Wisconsin. She has taken the leap from city girl to country girl. (To read about her recent move and the many adventures of her homesteading life check out her blog Adventure This Life.)

Now onto the hunt! Their property has many beautiful trees- one of which became my family’s Christmas tree. The land is beautiful. The weather was beautiful. The trees were ripe for the picking.

Cutting down your very own Christmas tree is like a right of passage to the holiday festivities. Nothing creates that Christmas feeling like cutting down a beautiful pine tree for your home.

I had considered the Charlie Brown tree, but my daughter was not thrilled with the lack of branches. Onto the next!

I adore this picture of our son. Even though this is his third Christmas, this is probably the first time he will be aware of what Christmas is all about. He loved the hunt for the Christmas tree.