Charlie Brown Christmas tree

Every year after returning from Thanksgiving always marks the beginning of the Christmas season. Which always begins with getting our tree the soonest we possibly can. This year was no different, except that we didn't get to go to our favorite Christmas tree farm which holds the world's most perfect Christmas trees. As sad as I was about this, I still put on a supportive face as we all (and I mean all - including the Goody family!) went up to Mt. Bachelor and into the woods to cut down our tree this year. After spending the entire morning looking for a tree and not finding one we liked, we stopped for lunch, dropped off half of the crew back at home and went out looking again! We literally had about 20 minutes of sunshine left in the day, when we spotted a lone tree far off from the road and decided it was the one. Not exactly the perfect Noble we've always had, but not entirely a Charlie Brown tree either. It had a few extra limbs than all other ones we passed up, but definitely still pretty sparse. Brian was just proud that we went out and chopped it down ourselves - me, I personally would have driven to our Pleasantville farm outside Portland and come back with perfection. But we differ on this one.

One of our many attempts at treking through the woods

Finally, the tree!

Not kidding when I said we had just minutes left of sun for the day...

Decorating the tree

The littlest George member putting on the star!

The completed tree! And yes, it didn't take long to wrap presents and get them under the tree :)