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No, i’m not talking about a woman’s chest! you pervs! I’m talking about Christmas tress. The real vs. fake tree debate is one that goes on every year in my house. That could be because Patrick threw out a brand new 8ft. prelit tree on accident during the great move to Oregon. I’ve really never let him live that down to be honest and someday he will replace it BUT I quickly learned that here in Oregon, a lot of people really get into the real tree thing. It could be because of the little fact that Oregon is one of the nations largest distributors for Christmas Trees and we have farms everywhere to go pick your own. Some say walking around in the cold and mud looking for that “perfect” tree is the starting off point to the Christmas holiday decorating.
Personally, I’d take my prelit fake tree and some nice smelling candles to get me that tree smell but we have decided that while the kids are young to do some of this tromping through the woods, pick your own madness.

Luckily for us this year, the weather was about as perfect as winter Oregon tree picking weather can be! Two years ago we had little 7 1/2 month old Braysen out on a side of a mountain (well, hill imo but they call them mountains here sometimes…silly Oregonians!) with rain coming down sideways and just overall freezing to find “the” tree. This time, I even had to strip off my jacket because I was…dare I say hot? The views were stunning and it was a lot of fun. We could see Rainier, Mt. Hood, St. Helens and Jefferson all from the “West Christmas Tree Farm”. This is the same place Patrick went to as a kid so it’s pretty cool that we are taking our kids there now too.

Overall, it was a good day and a fun tradition I think to keep up with the kids but I still hate going out in the pouring rain to do it when I could be sitting at home just putting up a no-fuss fake prelit!

A few pics of our day out hunting for the perfect tree…(as usual, all images can be enlarged by clicking!)

Foggy valley below

Price list with different types of trees

Hank measuring up a tree…too tall!

“the” tree – almost 8 ft. beautiful Noble Fir

Preparing to chop it down ~ all the boys were checking it out

Down goes the tree

Now to carry it to the road to get picked up by the 4 wheelers..what would we do without our trusty men?

Four-wheeler to the rescue…

Lots more pics can be seen at my flickr by clicking the side bar flickr link.