The date is December 6th. Russ and I put Gabriel to take a nap and told the boys we would be back soon. We wanted to get the Christmas Tree. A quick trip to Lowes and we'll be right back. Negative. We hit up Lowes and look thru all the skinny trees. Russ pulled a few out and banged the stump on the ground, in an attempt to get each tree to fluff out a bit. It wasn't working for me. I tried it a few times too, the trees are a lot heavier then I thought. After about 20 minutes of looking we decided that maybe we should support out local farmers and try the place up on Rosemont near the church. Well, it was muddy and cold. We looked thru trees that ranged from $65 to $150. WhOa. I'm all for supporting our local farmers but isn't there supposed to be a better deal when you go local? Then to make matters worse ... Ken and Barbie showed up with their perfect three children in a nice black Escalade. Their kids started running around the lot and the dad was calling ...