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O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

We decided today was the annual family bonding & going out to the woods to cut down a christmas tree.    We ended up at the Elms which is right around the corner from Scott's house & where Jessie now works on weekends.

 That's why she is wearing the red apron...she make the apple cider donuts in the little cafe they have.  It's so funny because her other part time job she has is at Focastle ( apple orchard/gift shop/ cafe) & her job there is making donuts!
 Meghan & Jessie
 LiLi & I wandered over to see Santa' reindeer & all we found were these guys.....can't imagine how he's going to pull that big sleigh with these little goats!

 When we found everyone again they were looking at the pre-cut trees!
 Within five minutes each of them had the perfect tree!
 It's never been that quick before!  As you can tell it was a beautiful day, reasonably warm & they picked out trees that quickly.....normally we trudge through the woods for hours freezing our tushies!

 "Hurry Dad...it's getting heavy"
 We had to go for a trolley ride out to the fields
 We were just going to ride out & back but LiLi spotted this fun slide that was from their "fall fun stuff" & had to go down it.
 As you can see it is pretty long but she wasn't the least bit scared!

 She went down the first time with Scott but came out alone as he got stuck!

That's our trolley ride back in the distance.

It was a really nice day & no one missed trudging forever through the fields looking for the "perfect" tree!

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