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Tree Hauling Year Ten.

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Anne | Leave a comment

After TEN years, I don’t have much more to say about tree hauling by bike. Other than TEN YEARS! Wow, we really are old. The 13-year-old hauled the tree home, then immediately set off on his bike for an afternoon D&D session at his friend’s house. Teens are busy! I will say that my family has labeled me the Scrooge because I’m sorta down on Christmas and all of the commercialism. That tree we hauled home yesterday was eighty bucks! Bah Humbug.

Thanks to Tim for keeping the Christmas spirit alive in our house! His Christmas-loving mom would be proud. Merry Christmas!

Memory Lane

Once again, I’m recycling our tree-hauling photo retrospective from years past. Last year our daughter claimed that, “our family is weird” and “this was her last year”. And yesterday she said, “Now that we’ve done ten, I’m done.” So this really could be our last Christmas tree post, EVER. We’ll see.

Year One: 2007, look how little!

Year Two: 2008, a dusting of snow

Year Three: 2009, the year we froze

Year Four: 2010, the year it rained a lot

Year Five: 2011, kids on their own bikes!

Year Six: 2012, looking so grown up!

Year Seven: 2013, Kids hauling trees. (She’s almost as tall as me)

Year Eight: 2014, whoa these kids are tall, but still shorter than me.

2015: Year Nine. We’re almost all the same height (except for Tim)

2016: Year Ten. I have places to be. Can we go yet?

Happy Holidays, everyone. Looking forward to checking out your tree-hauling adventures.

– Anne and Tim

Tree Hauling, Year Nine!

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Anne & Tim | 2 comments

You might be (editor: probably are) bored of tree-hauling posts by now, but I’m not. And since this is our NINTH-annual-Christmas-tree-by-bike post, and I already have kids in middle and high-schools, you’ll have to suffer through another sentimental one. The kids are growing up so fast <sniff> and our time with them is almost done. They’re already talking about their future holiday traditions, the ones they’ll start when they have their own (more stylish than our) homes and families. But for now, they’re still stuck with what passes for tradition around here.

Little boy in 2008; Much bigger boy in 2015

See that cute, little, three-year-old, riding on the back of Tim’s Xtracycle Mad-Max style? He’s now twelve! And almost taller than me! AND this year, he hauled the tree home on my Xtracycle! (I hope my overuse of exclamation points has properly conveyed my enthusiastic mirth.)

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Eighth-Annual Xtracycle Tree Haulin! (plus retrospective)

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Anne | 4 comments

This is our obligatory eighth-annual Christmas tree by bike post. Tree-hauling is old hat by now, but I thought I’d post some photos of this year’s adventure anyway. You might remember that last year our daughter hauled the tree. When we discussed who would pedal the tree home this year, I realized I’d never done it. How did I pass on all of those tree-hauling opportunities over the years? Naturally I volunteered for the task.