"Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree"

For the Simmons family Christmas officially begins the day after Thanksgiving and the first official act of our Christmas season is to cut our tree. For the past several years we have gone to Apple Hill but this year we decided to stay closer to home and went to Bill's Christmas Tree Farm conveniently located just off Jacksonville Hwy about 10 minutes from our house. They had a small petting zoo (2 goats and some chickens and rabbits in cages) and wagons for kids to ride in.

Hannah didn't stay in the wagon to long but loved running through all the trees.
What we didn't realize is that the traditional firs don't grow down here in the valley so all they have is the bushy trees (like the technical name). We almost went with one but at the last minute decided that we liked our traditional fir trees and bought one of their pre-cut noble firs.
Here's the tree we almost got.

Here's what we ended up with.