One of our favorite activities leading up to Christmas is the annual journey to bring home our Christmas tree.  And it’s so nice living in North Carolina, where the trees are grown locally – they are super fresh and fill our home with the most amazing smell of pine.

So you’d assume that since Mike and I love getting a Christmas tree so much that our kids would relish the experience as well.  Right?  Right?!?!?!?!

Yeah, not so much.  Though they are some of the happiest, most exuberant Little People I know, the Little Miss and Little Mister have this knack for being in a sour mood whenever we go tree-hunting.

It didn’t help that the weather was pretty wet and dreary the day we went out to the tree farm.

But did that stop this Christmas-loving Mommy and Daddy from marching out into that tree field and willing our family to make the best of it???  Heavens no.  We pushed on, with Little Miss and Mister Cranky Pants in tow.

(not so impressed by the new growth lot)

And thankfully for us, there were swings and fresh donuts waiting for the Little Troopers once we finished our noble quest.

Once we got home and the Littles were able to fill their bellies with lunch, and rest their weary eyes, the happy came back.

I mean, it’s hard to not be joyful when you are waited on hand-and-foot, AND have a awesome new light-covered Christmas tree to look at!  See what I mean?!

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(Harkening back to the Little Missy’s first “aware” Christmas tree experience –
Christmas 2011 – Little Miss and the Tree)

Well, unless “someone” is forcing you to take a (another) picture.

Christmas is almost here!  GET EXCITED!!!