{"id":12149,"date":"2016-12-14T07:45:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12149"},"modified":"2016-12-14T07:45:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T12:45:46","slug":"seven-years-of-christmas-tree-quests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/seven-years-of-christmas-tree-quests\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven years of Christmas tree quests"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>he year we moved to Manotick was the year we swapped our almost 20 year old artificial tree for a (formerly) live one. Though I had never had a “real” tree, we have come to love our annual Christmas tree quest and I could not imagine ever going back to an artificial tree.<\/p>\n

Conveniently, 2010 is also the year I launched my photography business. Fun to see both how much the boys have grown and how much I have grown as a photographer over the years!<\/p>\n

2010: they were babies!!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

2011: clearly I hadn’t unlocked the mysteries of white balance because everything is blue.<\/p>\n

\"Searching<\/a><\/p>\n

2012: the year we discovered Thomas Tree Farm, where we’ve gone every year since. Also, the year Tristan was big enough to take over one end of the tree.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

2013: Lucas is wearing the coat today that Simon was wearing that day.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

2014: I never noticed before that it’s always Simon’s task to carry the saw.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

2015: that weird year we wore spring coats until Boxing Day. Also, add reindeer to all the things!<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

2016: where did all these man-sized children come from?<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

Do you have a favourite holiday tradition that you do every year? Our holidays are steeped in tradition, but hunting for the Christmas tree is probably our family favourite!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year we moved to Manotick was the year we swapped our almost 20 year old artificial tree for a (formerly) live one. Though I had never had a “real” tree, we have come to love our annual Christmas tree quest and I could not imagine ever going back to an artificial tree. Conveniently, 2010 … Continue reading “Seven years of Christmas tree quests”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,93,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys","category-happy-holidays","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12150,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions\/12150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}