Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

This afternoon, we went up MuleCreek - the town just to the northeast of us and really a beautiful place. We went to Martinez Ranch and started searching for trees. we saw lovely spruces and alot of junipers that Udell swore would make great trees, but Eric just wouldn't settle until he found "the one". Well the one sure was "the one" - it was up an incredibly steep hillside that of course I had to get out and hike with Eric and we didn't exactly dress for a hike today - both of us had cowboy boots on which are less than ideal for climbing steep hills.

However, the tree was perfect. Beautiful all around and very full of course.

Eric has been pretty excited to cut down trees and wood for our woodstove lately because he recently got a new stihl chainsaw, and quite honestly I think that stihl should look to him for a model for their commercials... don't you think so? Wouldn't you buy a chainsaw from them if you saw the picture above?

Anyhow, the tree is great. It is quite tall, its amazing how small a tree looks out in the open, but once you get it into the house, I was quite thankful we have a 2 story house because the tree is about 9 feet tall! I will post a pic when it is finished being decorated too!