A group of us from the Embassy got together and the outing was arranged by our CLO (community liaison officer), which was a good thing because I don't think any of us would have ever found this location if it wouldn't have been for directions and or the best piece of technology to date, the GPS.
We all enjoyed a very beautiful, gorgeous, and "sunny" day. Rows and rows of Christmas trees to choose from, going through them all was so overwhelming but so well worth it. Just to have that experience was the best. We told Chloe she had the task of picking out the tree this year, and decorating it too, well with a little help from Mommy & Daddy. Boy, and did she find some trees. I believe the first 10 minutes she had already found 3 of them. We knew it would be hard for her to understand that we needed to just get one and that it couldn't be gigantic, like her first one was. We knew she had found that perfect tree, it was just to look at all that she had picked and of course she had picked the best one when we saw her second one.
We were also surrounded by great friends & we were with our awesome children, who could ask for anything better than that. It was the perfect day. Although everytime Chloe & Troy Jr would hear the chainsaw go off, they would freak out, we'd tell them that it's ok because that means somebody has picked out their perfect tree, just like we were about to do. Went over pretty good but when it was time for ours to be cut down, they really got very nervous but I made sure that they knew we were there and all would be ok. The guy with the chainsaw came over and went to work on getting our Christmas tree down.
The tree is picked
Tree cutting
Timber!!
After all was said and done, we were on our way back to the front of the trees, waiting for them to bag it up and put it on the trailer that would join the others that everyone else had picked out. We had to wait until we were all finished because we rode over in a trailer pulled by a tractor from the Farm house to the actual tree farm. The owner had gave Troy & I a little history on it, and told us that the entire farm dates back to 1539 and it sits on 500 acres total but only 200 is cultivated. It is absolutely gorgeous and I'm so blessed & thankful for the opportunity that we all had.
Enjoying a little conversation while waiting & getting to experience such a great thing with all of our friends and the very sweet owners of the farm. Afterwards we all headed back to the front of their property near their house, and we gathered around an outside fire where they had sausage cooking over the nice fire and various other things for the children and adults to eat. Earlier when we first arrived at the farm, they had tea, coffee, juices, cookies, biscuits, and other delicious items on their menu for us to enjoy. It was great. We had a very nice time at our first visit to a Christmas Tree farm. The perfect ending to a perfect day was when we got home and were able to start decorating our 1st Tree farm tree.
Just put it up & with a little trimming........
Chloe's proud of her masterpiece
So sweet, Merry Christmas!!
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