Oh Christmas Tree

Once Owen's birthday party was over last weekend, we were finally able to start celebrating Christmas, and the first thing on our list was to get a Christmas tree! Here's how it went down:

• One $5 permit from BLM (Bureau of Land Management)
• Langdon family running late Sunday afternoon to find the perfect tree.
• Driving around the desolate hills in east Carson City, knowing it would be dark in less than 30 minutes.
• Walking all over the hills looking for that perfect tree as it got darker and darker.
• By the time we decided on a tree, it was completely dark and the tree was, of course, on the side of a steep hill.
• Mark and Micah cut the tree down to the lights of cell phones.
• I balanced on the side of the hill with a screaming, cold Owen in one arm, and the camera in another.
• Once the tree was cut, we had to find our way back to the jeep somehow, in total darkness and with a very unhappy toddler.
• But we made it home and the tree turned out really nice!

Owen loves all the "balls" on the tree.