The most beautiful tree

Saturday December 8, 2007
We went to the Watson tree farm today to pick a little Christmas tree for our house. We went here last year also, and I love walking through the field to find the perfect one. The perfect tree for the Gerstberger family is not the typical perfect tree because we live in a Barbie house. We look for a small skinny tree. It is not much different from a Charlie Brown tree, but we think it is beautiful.
When I look for a Christmas tree, I always think about Dad. When we were little, Dad would take the girls out to pick a tree. We would look through endless trees to find the perfect one.
Mom also found the perfect tree. It was the first one she picked. Usually she looks at 800 trees to find the right one. We spin the trees, pound them on the ground to make the branches fall, and spin them again. But this year, we only went through this process with two!