The Holden Family: Third Time's The Charm

This past weekend we went Christmas tree hunting. We have to admit we are a little spoiled by living near the Christmas tree capital of the U.S. in the past. We are used to a longer drive but a huge selection of awesome trees where they give you a pole to find the height you want and then they cut it down with a chainsaw, take it to be wrapped up and load it on your car. We were very excited to find tree farms here. Many months ago when moving here looked like a high probability Ben and I started looking for all the things we like to do here and going to a tree farm for our tree was one of those items we hoped we would find here. We found them here, just not the abundance of them we are used to. The positive was they were all about 45 minutes away instead of 2 1/2 hours. We ventured to our first tree farm and realized our standards may be a little high. At all the farms you pull up and they gave you a saw and tell you to cut down your tree and bring it up to them and they would shake it, wrap it and help put it on the car. At our first stop they gave us nothing to bring the tree up in and me wearing Mia and helping to carry a tree did not sound promising. We scoured the fields and found nothing in the limited supply. The next morning we ventured out again finding a great little farm that at least gave you a sled to bring back your tree on. We rode out on the wagon to find our tree, but after much searching, in every variety, found nothing that had not already been tagged or was being left for next year. We loaded up again and headed to Wisconsin, which is only 45 minutes from where we live. We pulled up and Ben felt this was the place. Mr. Snowman's Christmas Trees was going to be the winner! We grabbed our saw and headed out. About 15 feet from the front of the lot we found our tree! Ben likes to look around and make sure that is the one, but the girls and I knew it was. Ben started sawing and grabbed a tree cart and we took our little tree home. The people were great and super friendly. After all the adventure we have found our tree and have found the farm we will go to first next year!