Are you a fake tree or a live tree person? We are live tree people. It is what Darryl and I both grew up with - going out to a tree farm, finding the perfect tree, cutting down, and hauling it home. Most of our married life we have also had a live tree. There were 2 years I believe that we had a fake tree - the years that Darryl was dealing with a back injury and then surgery. Our guys were little so I'm not even sure they remember those years. We were laughing recently about the fact that the year Nate was turning one we actually picked out a 3 foot tree. Why? Because he was into EVERYTHING! So, we put a card table behind the couch and set the tree on the table. Looking into the living room it just looked like we had set the tree in front of the window, behind the couch - no one knew it was short!
For quite a few years we had a wonderful tree farm about 40 minutes away that we visited every year. They had beautiful trees, a campfire burning, hot chocolate, and horse drawn wagons if you wanted a ride. We loved seeing the workers every year including the elderly owner. Eventually we learned that the owner had decided to return and sell the land so we visited their last season and made one last memory at that wonderful farm. It took us over a year to find another "perfect" tree farm (that year in between - we found a farm that we would NOT visit again HA!). Rainbow's End is wonderful. Their prices are great (when we started going the price for any pine, any size was $18.00 . . . now it is $24.00 so still reasonable), their trees are beautiful, and the owners are just great! They have alpacas and other farm animals to see, lots of photo ops, and a warming barn with crafts and treats.
