new traditions

One of the best things about being a family are the traditions you create. Today we started a new one. We headed up to Kinsey Family Farm in North Forsyth County and got our Christmas tree. It is beautiful up there. Rolling hills of several different kinds of pine trees surrounding a large pond with the North Georgia Mountains in the horizon. It really is breath taking...and of course, I forgot my camera.

You can get your tree one of two ways: Clark Griswold style where you walk the land and cut your own tree or you can pick one that has just been cut and is sitting in a bucket of water (so it isn't wasting any time drying out). We chose that route this year. It was quite cold and with Love Bug already bundled like Nanook of the North, we decided the already cut trees were fine with us. And the fact this is our first Christmas with an automobile of our own that can carry a Christmas tree was icing on the cake. No more borrowing PopPop's truck to get our tree home.

The tree is a beauty. She is already in the stand, watered and waiting for her bling. The colored lights were just purchased and will be adorning our tree soon (I've always been a clear lights girl, but with the kiddos getting older and The Mayor loving all the lights, we thought we would now be a colored lights family)...another new tradition.