Both Julia & Pauline wanted to participate in our family outing to get the Christmas tree, so we went on Saturday. While it would have been nice to participate in the annual trek with my dad and that crew, the last weekend in Jersey taught me that staying closer to home would be the less stressful/more enjoyable option. We went to Linvilla, where we go often throughout the year to pick berries, apples, pumpkins, etc. We rode the hayride out to pick our own tree, but weren't impressed with the selection of trees they had (dry needles near the trunk of all the trees). So instead, we opted to pick a pre-cut tree from their garden center. It was a bit strange, and almost too easy... they have a drive-thru area where you pull up in your car, hand over your ticket, and they tie your tie to the car for you. Since I'm not the one ever securing the tree to the car, I wasn't about to say that having them do it for us was screwing with tradition. Let's face it, with twin babies, we need the easy option. It was completely unplanned, but we ended up making the trip in two cars, which worked great - the babies got tired and cranky shortly after we found our tree, so the girls and I took them home, leaving Oliver & Adam to enjoy the playground.
Like father like son... searching for our tree.
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| Quite a selection at the Garden Center |
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| Roasting marshmellows after the tree has been picked! |
Pauline & I were joking that Adam wanted a big tree - here are Adam & Oliver next to the tree Adam wished would fit in our house!
We aren't normally this on-the-ball with getting our tree decorated, but since both au pairs wanted to be involved, and no one had any other plans, we decorated our tree that very same night.
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| Lukas "helping" Mommy put lights up |
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