Every year we wait until the last possible day to head out to the local tree farm and cut down the perfect Christmas Tree.  This year was no exception….although we might have wanted to check the weather before we waited until Dec. 23rd to pick out our tree. It was torrential downpour all day…which meant we were the crazy family that pulled up to the tree farm and requested to go out into the fields and cut down a tree despite the heavens’ floodgates unleashing buckets of water on our heads. As you can imagine, we were the only ones there and the people might have thought we were a little crazy. But the muddy trek up to the field and the twenty or so minutes it took for us all to agree on a tree made for quite the fun adventure and definitely a day to remember.

For the last several years my dad has gone with just a couple of the boys but this year we decided to take almost everyone, and I was excited to bring my camera and document this momentous family occasion. And so, despite the downpour, I brought my camera and I managed to keep it fairly dry (hey, I figured if I kept it somehow miraculously dry in Ecuador during the 24 hours we were outside in the rain on the concrete waiting for the Papal Mass, I could keep it dry for an hour at the tree farm).

So without further ado, here are snapshots from our rainy adventure: 

-mk