Christmas tree hunt

On Saturday Kirk and I went up near Panaca to find our christmas tree. Pioche, in fact. As it is our first Christmas married you can imagine our excitement. We were commissioned by my parents, Mark, Ben and Kirk's friend Brady to also bring a Christmas tree to them.

The snow was so fun.

Kirk cut down all the trees with a hand saw instead of carrying a heavy chainsaw around. My oh so important job was to tag the trees so they knew we cut them down while obeying the laws of the land.

And here's our loot.

After defacing the planet with a total of 5 trees we stopped by Panaca to see Grandma and Aunt Judy's graves. Grandma's doesn't have a headstone yet.

This is the coolest house in Panaca. We took a picture of it so we'll remember it when we grow up and have our own house. Isn't so awesome?! I have admired this house my whole life while visiting Panaca.

After leaving Panaca while we headed home we noticed that one of the tie down straps had come unhooked. Kirk pulled over to fix it while I stayed in the truck on my nice and cozy seat warmers. Quite a bit of time had gone by and I started to wonder what was taking Kirky so long. I rolled down my window still not willing to get out of the truck but my curiousity won in the end. Then I hear Kirk say "we cut down five trees right?". Of course we did was my reply. Then he exclaimed that if that were the case then we lost a tree. I retorted that there was no chance. It must just be hidden underneath the other trees. But to our chagrin and Kirk's small victory, he was right. We lost a tree. Our name and address were attached to the escapee fern due to my tagging dedication so we had to go back and find the dang thing. We found it a few miles up the road but it's suicidal jump from the truck resulted in a broken point off the top. We couldn't very well go home with only four trees with five awaiting families so we drove back to the forestry office, got a new tag for a sixth tree and searched for our sixth and final victim. Don't tell your tree hugging pals. It was an accident! =) But made for a fun adventure.