Childhood Traditions that Never Get Old!

For shame, it has been way too long since I have blogged. For the 7 of you that read this, I apologize and will not let it happen again. In my defense, I am working on something new, a new blog to be exact and it will launch on Sunday January 3rd so get excited!!! Totally different from what I am doing now, but have no fear I am still keeping this blog as my new one is not about my likes, loves, and loathes, it is something to help us all have a great year! So please stay tuned, I am really excited about it!

Anyways, back to the real focus.....Christmas traditions that NEVER get old! Growing up, my family went every year to get our very own tree. We all bundled up, jumped in the minivan with the dog and set off on our merry way! We would play Christmas tapes and sing the whole way there....The Christmas Polka was by far my favorite song! What? You aren't familiar with that one? It's an oldie, but I goodie and I highly recommend you check it out....."We've got the spirit of Christmas come on along.  We'll have some polka, what can go wrong?  We'll take the sleigh and go cut a tree so come join the jubilee!!" Oh the good 'ole days. Once we arrived, we were on a mission to find the perfect Christmas tree. My brother, Colin, and I would use any scrap we could find to mark the trees we liked. After we decided on the perfect tree my dad would cut it down, we would have it bailed, get some hot chocolate, and strap that baby to the top of the minivan for our ride home.

This weekend Jeremy and I went and chopped down our very own Christmas tree! It is amazing how little things have changed in the whole process of cutting down a tree. Jeremy and I bundled ourselves up, hopped in our SUV, rocked out to some Christmas tunes on our Sirius-XM radio, and headed to Grandpa's Tree Farm. There we were given our very own saw, hopped on the tractor pulled hayride and went on the hunt for our very first Christmas tree! One we selected our tree, Jeremy chopped it down, we threw it back on the hayride and went back to get some hot chocolate while they bailed our tree.

We had the most wonderful time and it was really exciting to restart a tradition that was so special to me growing up! Here are some photos from our Christmas Tree adventure. I hope you are starting or continuing your own holiday traditions!

xoxo

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PS: We named our tree Edna Louise