{"id":2335,"date":"2009-12-02T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:15:46","slug":"the-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/02\/the-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year we decided to go to a tree farm to chop down our Christmas tree and liked it so much we decided to do it again this year.<\/p>\n

After reading an article in Country Living about how it is actually more green to chop down a tree than to use an artificial one, I was all for it.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4252\"<\/a> I have so many pictures from our tree outing so I am not editing any of them.\u00a0 They are coming at ya straight out of my camera.\u00a0 Eva thinks she sees the perfect tree.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4232\"<\/a> We always have at least one of these little melt-downs<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4245\"<\/a> But then his brother gives him a lift<\/p>\n

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I make them pose for a shot in front of the tree we pick<\/p>\n

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and another<\/p>\n

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and then one more without the tongue<\/p>\n

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A few with dad<\/p>\n

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Eva says hi<\/p>\n

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A couple with mom<\/p>\n

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Then we wait for the bus<\/p>\n

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And now our house looks and smells like Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year we decided to go to a tree farm to chop down our Christmas tree and liked it so much we decided to do it again this year. After reading an article in Country Living about how it is actually more green to chop down a tree than to use an artificial one, I was all for it. I have so many pictures from our tree outing so I am not editing any of them.\u00a0 They are coming at ya straight out of my camera.\u00a0 Eva thinks she sees the perfect tree. We always have at least one of these little melt-downs But then his brother gives him a lift I make them pose for a shot in front of the tree we pick and another and then one more without the tongue A few with dad Eva says hi A couple with mom Then we wait for the bus And now our house looks and smells like Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[66,72,105,155,163,214,229,658],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life","tag-andy","tag-austin","tag-blake","tag-christmas-tree","tag-cole","tag-elisa","tag-eva","tag-timbuk-tree-farm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21419,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/21419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}