Wife put up the entire ceramic village on Black Friday with snow. We put up a smallish fake tree at the same time.
Our tradition when the kids were younger was always to go up to the mountains of northern AZ and cut our own. A permit cost about $5 at that time. I always had a Toyota Land Cruiser or some other 4 wheeler and we would convoy with my brothers who also had 4 wheelers, kids, dogs, so we could go into snow country and find the ideal tree, have snow ball fights, build a fire and make a full day of it.
Kids are grown now but always talk about all the fun times and misadventures we had on those trips. One year we pulled off the dirt road at a frozen cattle pond and everybody was sliding around on the ice. My brother had a Bronco and decided to take it out on the ice to do some drifting. Went well for about 5 minutes until his front wheels broke through the ice. We broke 2 chains and one tow strap over the next hour trying to get him back on land. By the time we finally did there were prolly 50 people stopped taking pics and laughing at the antics. 😇
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