West Coast Rohrboughs: December 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
In honor of my friend Kyle, who incessantly sings the song The Perfect Tree (which my dad sang every year growing up at Clarksburg Baptist Church during this season), we have titled this blog as such.

Tara and I decided that we would celebrate our first Christmas in the Evergreen state by cutting down one of their very namesake. We went to an Evergreen farm (the same place we picked our Halloween pumpkins) and picked our tree out of a lineup. It was difficult but what can we say, it just spoke to us...

After "easily" cutting it down and getting just a bit of help to load it up to the car, we took our 7 foot 7-8 year old friend home. At least that process was easy, that was until we figured out our stand didn't have the bolts still, which I decided I could overcome with some heavy duty 6 inch screws from a quick trip to The Home Depot. However, it then became obvious (once we tried to rehydrate our thirsty friend) that the base we had traveled with had become broken, and there was a very large( and porous) crack throughout the bottom. A quick trip to Target fixed that, where we purchased a new base, which of course nullified my McGruber way of getting our tree to stand with just the screws.

Total, it only took about 45 minutes to cut down, travel with, stand, and decorate our first real tree in our very own house (ok.. 7 hours). In hindset, it was totally worth it as you'll see below in the play by play photo series narrating our journey from living beautiful creation of God, to dying shrub in our living room that may or may not actually remain in a vertical position until after Christmas...

YAY CHRISTMAS!!! :)

The Christmas Tree Farm