Going to Find a Christmas Tree

Well, I was going to write a post about going to get our Christmas Tree (I'm a little late I know).  However I later realized that my mom had already written a post about the exact same thing.  So if you want to read about how the whole night went down, go there.  However, I do have some quotes that I still want to add to the story.


1. While we were at the farm looking at the trees, Coy picked up a tree and turned it around.  Katie must not have been satisfied with the distribution of the branches on that particular tree, because all of a sudden she goes, "Oh! He's a baldy!"

2. Emily has serious issues with being away from home.  She'll go if it's an activity to which we're all going, but even then she can generally be pretty grumpy about being out and about.   This particular night, as soon as we found a tree we seemed semi-okay with, she piped up immediately: "Okay! let's get out of here!"  If one tries to argue with her with a statement along the lines of this: "Emily we just got here!", she'll say something to the effect of "I know, I'm just wondering... let's get out of here."

3. This one was also Emily, and I'm not exactly positive to what it applied.  She had mentioned earlier in the evening how she liked to watch something that mom liked.  She then later must have said something to the opposite of that, and mom called her on it.  Then Emily says, hoping not to hurt anyone's feelings, "Yeah, i like to watch them, but..."
Then Coy's sarcasm kicked in: "Basically she doesn't like them but she doesn't want to hurt your feelings."
Then Emily, thinking that that statement was a possible escape from the situation without making anyone feel bad, jumped right on the bandwagon. "Yeah! I don't want to hurt your feelings."

4. Later, once we had chosen a tree, Coy was trying to load it into the bed of his truck.  Katie must not have approved of the way Coy was handling the tree.  "Be gentle!" she cried.
Coy yelled back, incredulously, "it's a TREE!"

5. On our drive home, Coy noticed that someone's door wasn't shut all the way.  We discovered that it was Katie's door, and so she quickly opened it and shut it, but to no avail.
 "Katie, it's still not shut!"
Upon further examination, she quickly realized that the very tip top of the tree was poking around the cab of the truck just a tiny bit, and that Katie had managed to slam the tip of the tree into her door when she shut it.
"Aw, shoot.. the tree!"
 After realizing this, she opened and re-slammed her door several more times.  Only squishing the top of the tree more. 
"Katie!!" we all yelled.  "It's not working!"

6. Finally, after the slamming-the-tree-in-the-car-door incident, we were discussing one of Katie's upcoming dates for which she was not very excited.  These were her thoughts on the event: "I hate guys who can't spell.  And he can't even spell!"