Christmas tree hunting

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, Chase and I went looking for an authentic California Christmas tree. There are a ton of Christmas tree farms in California. Actually, I can't think of many things that can't be grown in CA with the beautiful and temperament weather year round. We traveled about 20 min south, in between San Jose and Santa Cruz to a farm we found online. As we were driving on this narrow road up the beautiful hills of northern California, we passed so many beautiful trees and even a vineyard. It was so nice!

We found the farm we were looking for and parked. This was obviously a small family-run business that had been growing these Christmas trees for years. A hand-painted sign told us that the trees cost $50, plus $3 for the netting...great, we only basically only carry cards these days (at least I do)! Luckily, Chase opened his wallet and found exactly $53 (how does that even happen?!)

Chase walked up to the one guy pointing people around, and asked him how things work. You should have seen Chase's face when the guy told him to grab a saw, find a tree, cut it down, and carry up front to get netted! But to Chase's credit, he grabbed that saw like a lumberjack and started off towards the trees!

         Finally we found a great tree, well, not really, but we liked the top half of the tree. We cut it down thinking it might not be as big as we wanted...then realized it was like 8ft tall, and fits in our apartment by a foot. All in all - we did something new and had fun with it! Had no idea people in CA get to cut down their own trees! Well,  we wouldn't know how AZ did it, the last two years we bought our trees at Lowe's...shh :)

Yes, Chase had to hold the tree while we drove. We did a good job at tying it on the top, but it shifted with the drive. It was never in any real danger...but I'm always one for a good photo op :)

The finished product

Oh yea- here's a video on me attempting to saw this thing down. Let's be real...this is a job for the husband.