Yes, we went Christmas tree hunting today. It was a much colder field trip than in previous years, but we bundled up with the appropriate clothing, including reindeer antlers, and drove a half hour into the country in search of the perfect tree. Calvin was far more impressed with the hay ride from the parking lot to the tree patch than 
he was with the car ride from the breakfast restaurant to the tree farm. The farm had a lot of beautiful trees and it didn't take long to find the one we wanted to bring home, and that's when Calvin really started to enjoy himself. He thought it was pretty funny that his grandpa was crawling around underneath this tree, and that it was down right hilarious when the tree fell. We cut two trees, one for us and one for grandma and grandpa, and both times 
Calvin just laughed and kept saying "boom, boom, boom" over and over again (his new found voice has been a great source of comedy for us). he thought it was just as funny that when we got home we brought the tree in the house, and who can blame him? After spending hours trying to get our old lights working to no avail, we wondered the same ourselves. So the decorating will have to wait another 
day, but our house is already filled with the wonderful, Christmassy smell that is the fresh cut pine tree in our great room, and we know the season of advent has begun.
More hunting pictures are in the Dec 1-7 photo album.