Our Family

Our Family
Liberty, Heather, Glade, Ryan, Kim

Sunday, November 29, 2009

O Tannenbaum

Yesterday we headed to the Tanana Valley State Forest by way of Two Rivers Road, just about 20 miles from here, and cut a Christmas tree. The area is open for noncommercial timber harvesting, and you can even cut one Christmas tree without a permit. Kim selected an attractive white spruce.



I had a lot of fun driving the Cherokee on the snowy logging roads. It does quite well in the snow, even without snow tires.

















We discovered that the roads were perfect for kids' sledding. Kim and Liberty had a ball. We even saw a dog sled team a couple of times, with ten or twelve Siberian Huskies pulling a man up the hill. Yes, the man had a bushy beard just like in the movies.



We were so excited to see direct sunlight that we took a picture. The sun doesn't get far above the southern horizon these days. You pretty much get morning or evening all day.

















The final product.

4 comments:

Jessie and Byron said...

so fun!! Wish we could do something like that!

William And Kylie Mobley said...

What a fantastic family outing! It makes our Martha Stewart tree from a box look oh so boring!

ryan.abbott.dds said...

We have a tradition where we each get a new Christmas ornament each year. Usually they are characteristic of the place we are living, since we've been moving around so much. Heather and I each have nine ornaments now. We have some from Crater Lake, Oregon, Mt Rainier and Anacortes, Washington, some from Ohio and Utah, a Nauvoo temple, and a Mount Vernon, Virgina. It's getting to be quite fun to decorate the tree.

Mindy said...

Looks like so much fun!!! Kim was right - it's perfect!