A Template For Family Christmas Tree Cutting Success

Aided by the knowledge that we needed to find a tree and fast, I set off in the truck for an area of the farm I had never looked for a tree in before....

Well finding a tree underneath the water hydrant in the field was admittedly very unlikely but we had to make an emergency stop after Levi (who was sitting on my lap) deposited a fermented version of the milk he had slurped over the last 3 hours or so down my hands.....

Having washed off Levi's contribution to the adventure, we continued on and thankfully found a tree rather swiftly afterwards. 

The discussion about the tree in question went something like this - Mariah, Judah and Ephraim in rapid conversation about how the tree was or was not too small and about how it probably wasn't any smaller than previous trees.....

Me - pointing out this tree was the largest one we had ever considered and might not fit through the doorway. 

After several minutes of discussion, I took initiative and began cutting down the tree. The noise of the chainsaw drowning out the sobs of "Daddy that tree's too small!"

You will note that the top of the tree is not visible in the picture.....

Guessing it might touch our tall ceiling in the house, I actually cut about two feet off of the bottom of the tree - to the sounds of even more tears, wailing, and great consternation. 

Haha, that last cut was also important when it came to getting it on the truck - it was almost too large for the truck bed and I could barely flip it onto the back - for some reason there was a lack of volunteers to help lift "the smallest tree ever onto the back."

The highly concerned members of the family had calmed down some as we drove back to the house and thankfully the tree did fit through the front door - just barely :)

And it didn't quite touch the ceiling!