Christmas Tree Hunt
As we’re all sittin around my house on Friday afternoon, everyone is brainstorming on what we can all go do. I throw out the idea that we can always head up to the mountains and hunt for our Christmas trees. I’ve never really gone out and got one from the woods, but I’ve never had my own place on Christmas before.
So everybody likes the idea, because my hunting partner informed me that there was plenty of snow up there for the kids to play in. So with Jared and Anna in his blazer, and Heath and I in my pickup, and everyone else in Jarrid’s Expedition, we began our wagon train to the mountains.
As we gained in elevation, snow started appearing on the mountain sides, as well as on the road. Since the area back there is mostly dominated by hunters, the snow on the road was pretty well packed to ice. My truck handles pretty good on ice, as well as my brothers rig, but from what I was told Jarrid’s Expedition was doin a bit of slippin. Being there first time up in this type of “harsh conditions”, I guess they weren’t feeling comfortable. So by the time we got to where I was taking them, they all wanted to go home.
So they headed back down with Jared following them, and it ended up just being Heath and I. So Heath grabbed the rifle off the rack, and I put my trompin boots on, and we headed down the old snow covered road in search of our perfect Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, and a possible buck.
If you have high speed internet, you can see Heath explain his take on things. (Link to 10Mb video)
1) Awesomenessity
2) Chad holding up the Rhodes tree, Jared holding up our tree, and my folks tree in the pickup truck.
5) CC, Carrie Ann, Anna, Jamie
6) Jared, Jarrid and Jacob, Heath and Chad
Yes....we know Janie is a great dancer, just like Jacob!
erik Said,
I want to hunt wolverines!:beer:
November 27, 2005 @ 11:55 amStephanie Said,
So Napoleon, did you catch any?! were they attacking your cousin?:razz:
November 27, 2005 @ 12:58 pmJame Said,
umm… i think there was only 4 girls; CC, Anna, Carrie and me. That was a very Interesting trip up the mountain,with CC Silently Spazing in the car. Idaho was so much fun! I loved it! I wish we could have stayed longer!
November 27, 2005 @ 4:49 pmJame Said,
Chad…. that is SUCH a fake smile. When i yelled at you to smile, you could have done a real one. hehe..
November 27, 2005 @ 4:51 pmPam Said,
Chad, we can hear you whispering. Hehe. Looks cold. Dang. It doesn’t EVER look like that here. As much as I wish it did. We’d have some kick-butt ski slopes if it ever snowed. Go figure.
November 27, 2005 @ 8:40 pmCC Said,
I was sooo nervous driving on that snowy mountain road….who won’t be “silently spazzing” :shock:???? Look at the road we were driving on in the picture behind Heath, Chad and Jared label “awesomenessity” now thats craziness to the max!!!!
November 27, 2005 @ 9:14 pmCC Said,
Oh yeah….later that day after we got home, the girls were all laughing at each other about our mountain adventure:wink: Thankyou to Chad and Heath for finding us some cute Charlie Brown Christmas trees!:grin:
November 27, 2005 @ 9:22 pmanna Said,
It was fun to have it snow while we were up there. Thank you for letting us spend Thanksgiving with you guys. It was great!!!
November 27, 2005 @ 9:53 pmChad Said,
Haha! Think yer pretty clever, huh Pam!
November 27, 2005 @ 11:02 pmPam Said,
Yep!
November 28, 2005 @ 5:41 am-[Medic]- Said,
Neat stuff, we always go out and get our tree from some Christmass trees we planted on top of the hill when I was in grade school, it’s loads of fun…but I missed it this year cause I am away at school.
December 2, 2005 @ 8:37 amChad Said,
Well, I’m sorry if you felt uncomfortable about driving the mountain roads. I assumed that we all knew what we were in for. Next time we’ll be sure to have chains for you.
December 2, 2005 @ 8:10 pm