I always save the little slice off the trunk and date them. I have 30 years of trunk slices. Some of them I have wood burned the year and other details of the year. Others are done in sharpie. I drill a hole in the top and tie on a pretty bow.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh that’s so cool!

@judyabernathy80

2 жыл бұрын

Very sweet gesture!! You’re honoring the tree, and that’s so neat. ❣️🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼❣️

@terrihart2133

2 жыл бұрын

What a great idea. We always got the kind to replant in our yard

Our tradition has always been to harvest a live tree in the wild. It usually involves snowshoes, a sled, a bow saw, an axe and a $5 Christmas tree permit from the US Forest Service. A balsam fir is the preferred species because it is so aromatic. Any of the lower limbs which are cut off are used to make a wreath. Nothing is wasted. The family outing is more precious than the tree we bring home. Memories last a lifetime.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so sweet!

@naomitracy5684

2 жыл бұрын

that may be , but that first part about harvesting your own tree sounds really sweet to me. What a great idea ! 💯❤️

Funny story that happened to us this past weekend.... On Saturday My dad said he was going hunting and we ( my husband, kids and I) told my mom we were just going to be checking out the left over black Friday sales,...later that day we both came home with a Christmas tree for her 🤣🤣 so she has two trees one on her porch and one in her living room. Definitely made a memory for sure. 💞🎄

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Awe that’s so sweet! 🎄😂🙏

OMG! Katie had me cracking up when she pulled all those snacks from under her arm🤣🤣🤣. She was enjoying her banana as well; She is hilarious! Looks like y’all had a great family trip to the tree farm. Love to you all!😇.

A Christmas memory. When son was younger, took him to cut our tree. They shook it for us, wrapped it, and we took it home. We always put it in the stand and left it out on patio overnight to let it fall out some. Next day brought in and decorated. Then on third day I go to turn on the lights and oh my gosh! The tree was covered in spider webs! One joke, spider webs. I removed precious ornaments, and had to spray it with spider spay, later picked of webs. Never forget that tree🎄😂

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Oh gosh! 😂🎄🕸

My grandmother who is now passed away gave me an entire Christmas village made of ceramic. She made the set back in the early 1970's and it was always on display in her home until about 2015. Like I say each figure and building in the set was made of ceramic and then hand painted by her. It's got a large church and house that light up from the inside and windows that are made of a colored glass material. The Ceramic Christmas trees even light up from the inside with those little transparent glass beads. There are about 15 people in the town. I hope to display the set in my home until it's time to pass it on to the next generation.

I have one of the old ceramic Christmas trees. I made it when I was 17 and now I'm 60. After going through hurricanes, floods...I still have it!! 😀👍🎄

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so sweet! 🎄🥰🙏

I love this episode. When I was a wee lad, we would go to the tree farm. As I got older I continued the tradition. Eventually I would go out on my property and find a tree.

Y'all are so funny! Matt and Tipper are so quiet in the truck. Y'all were their entertainment! 🎄😂🎄 I kept watching for a Charlie Brown tree. I thought of another KZread channel that I watch. Moss Family TV. In today's they made Christmas ornaments for their tree. Falon had saved the bottom part of the tree trunk to dry out over the year. Then Titus sawed some rounds off. Then the whole family painted ornaments for the tree. I thought of y'all and how crafty y'all are! Thanks for taking us along! 🎄❤️🎄

Our tradition was always going to a Christmas tree farm and cut a tree down with a saw. We each took turns sawing it down. There are 8 in our family. Good memories and tradition that we instilled in our own families. Love the video.

Ok so it was 93 degrees today in Melbourne Australia, keeping a tree looking good in this heat is an effort so you have to get a real tree you get it nearer to Christmas. Cooking a full Christmas lunch in the heat makes for one very frazzled cook, I pray for a cooler day. I suppose I could do a bbq lunch but I just can’t bring myself to do it...it’s got to be the turkey, ham, pork and roast veggies with all the trimmings along with the traditional Christmas pudding, Christmas fruit cake, mince pies and a new addition toblerone mousse for those with less mature taste buds and fellow chocoholics. I love your posts along with your mum’s and the pastor Lon (sorry can’t remember how to spell his name) I am going to try the arsh tater cake for a bit of variety. Have lots of christmassy fun!😆😉

Thanks for taking us along! 🎄❣🎄

Good morning Ladies. The last real tree we had was back in 1994. My son was a Club scout. They had a tree tent and sold trees for extra funds. We ended up with the last tree on the lot. It was quite similar to the Charlie Brown tree. Puny looking and quite dry already. We had it in the livingroom for 3 weeks. When the time came to drag it out the door....lol....it had practically no needles left. Needless to say, we never had another real tree. LOL Great video. Thank you.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Oh gosh! 🎄😂🙏

Fun video, thanks! Dad has a nice truck!

This was fun! Thanks for taking me along!! Merry Christmas to all and God Bless!! ~ Mrs. C.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

God Bless you and Merry Christmas! 🎄🙏🥰

I sure enjoyed " The Pressley Christmas Tree drive". Our tree is between 4-5 ft. with blinking lights, we put it on a little stand. I've notice the last year or two its loosing some needles "like me and my hair". HaHa. But the lights are pretty so we will keep it a little longer. God Bless. Jean

I love the tradition of only putting up a live tree just before Christmas and leaving it up until Twelfth Night, January 6

We have a tree in every room ,and I do get a live tree and I have several artificial trees ..I even have one big flocked one that I’m crazy about… looks like there’s a heavy snow all over it it’s beautiful and decorated.Then in my studio I have my husbands fishing tree that I made when he was overseas and it has bobbers and sinkers and fishing lures and fishing baskets.Then our bedroom I have a all natural tree was just Cardinals on it white lights pinecones and different things I’ve clicked it outside that I’ve gilded.. God Bless ..Merry Christmas

Glad to see you guys went to a tree farm for your tree. This really helps the local economies and when you have children it will even be more fun for you. Living in Ashe Country, we have it down to an art here in Watauga and Ashe County, NC We always go the Friday right after thanksgiving for our tree nd a wreath. There are some amazing tree farms up here. Hope someday you can make it up north to get your tree.

The appalachians are beautiful and it is amazing how old they are, pre-dating the ice age. What a special place.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Nothing like a day out, Christmas tree, O Christmas, all our fake is up and done. Merry Christmas all.

"Bird germs". I just love the way you think!!! ♥

You sure give me a smile at your sister silliness! So much fun!!🥰

It’s beautiful to see y’all do things as a family. My son’s usually flying around the country working and it makes me miss the family times together. Katie is a essential travel partner, she can keep you laughing until you get hungry and in a bad mood, then she whoops out the food from her jacket. She’s a legend, or at least that’s what my daughter calls people.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🎄🙏🥰

We put our fake tree up the day after Thanksgiving and it comes down usually the day after Christmas. This year it came down Monday after Christmas. Love watching your family in your everyday activities and your music. Your "Christmas in Dixie" song really touched my wife and me. It was a favorite of my Great Uncle for many years. He has been gone many years now, but he became like a grandfather to my wife before we were even married. When we hear this song, we always think of the time it was getting close to Christmas and he hadn't heard it on the radio yet. He called the local radio station and asked them if they would play it. They did. It was the only time he had ever called and requested a song. Brings back a lot of memories.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so sweet, I’m so glad we brought back some good memories. God bless y’all and Happy New Year!

I know that made for a great day we keep our tree in the attic but it's in the living room now and decorated

I've only went to a tree farm once here in Wisconsin. It's 600 acres of Christmas trees. Wore me out looking for a tree, now its a tree lot from the same farm. God bless.

We use to cut our trees down from our property . Funny story , it was cold and snowy when we cut it and brought it in the house . We didn't know but the warmth of the house apparently woke up some hibernating bugs which came alive and started swarming in our house !!lol!!

The tradition in our family is to go to the farm on Christmas Eve!!! Of course I was the worry wort hoping they weren't all gone, so far so good lol The other parts are far funnier! That beautiful child and her dad would find the tallest, so it often bent on the ceiling and wide so we had to duck under half of it to get in the front door!! Now for her tradition...lol..... Her Birthday is in February so the tree stayed up till after 2/10!!! Hahahahah. We made many of our decorations in our Brownie and Girl Scout Troop's and crafting at home but we always held to our belief that it wasn't our Birthday's so we had to make things for others too, not just buy stuff from stores. Although we were very lucky to have raised her on our lovely river in a town that's considered a tourist town in the country in between two major cities so we could buy all kinds of funny happy things for others. And this year now that I'm living so far from home I won't need go all the way back for most of what I buy others because I've found Another very cool place for soap and way cool jewelry! I Looooove Christmas!! ❤

😂You girls cracks me up…I’m going put hand warmers all on the tree and see if it catches on fire and the banana phone 🤣🤪. Y’all are truly a pleasure to watch. Makes this old women laugh out loud!🤣

A birds nest is good luck. If there isn’t a natural one ,people put on an artificial one. I also add a spider(not real) see the legend of the Christmas spider. A pickle (glass) hidden on the tree, the person who finds it gets an extra little gift. A favorite ornament of mine is a 2 inch wooden ornament. It’s called “the naughty boy” he has a. Blue bottom and a red hat. On the back of his head thru the hat is a knob that you push thru the hat. This makes the little boy stick out his tongue! I’ve never seen another one. I love a natural Christmas trees. We have several tree farms in CT. You get hay rides use of their saws a wagon to haul it. You can purchase garlands, swags, wreaths, hot chocolate, coffee. You pay by the foot. We usually purchase a fraizer fir. A little more expensive but the softness ,needle retention, longevity and fragrance are the best! So glad you kept the branches ! The angels , are collectible,and sweet! I love that you did this family adventure!

Thank you for sharing your special day with us.means so much ,when older people can feminize about days gone by.I love the cameradiere among you all.Kaie makes me laugh. And I dream of lovely memories.thank you so much.You live in a beautiful area.i love NC.ITS ONE OF God's grand creations from Mountains to ocean.God Bless you all.♥️♥️♥️🎄🎄🎄🦌🦌🎶🎵🎸🎻🎼

Looks like the name of the place is indeed Western Carolina Regional Airport. when I was a kid, our tradition was to buy the tree on Christmas Eve and leave it up until "Three Kings" (January 6, also known as Epiphany or Twelfth Night).

Great tree! Very beautiful Place , love the view of the mountains from the tree farm.... you all got some awesome things too! Thanks and God bless y'all....❤🙏

Ladies, y'all are absolutely right about those beautiful mountain views never getting old!

You have a beautiful tree. I love the scent of pine needles. Have a wonderful holiday season. Nothing better than being with family.

Absolutely love those car rides w ya'll!! Katie keeps me rolling w laughter🤣🤣⚘⚘ya'll are so fun

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😂🙏

My mom had a ceramic shop in Burnsville n.c. for years and she used to make the ceramic trees.Who knew that they would be so expensive when they reached vintage status.

Well thank heavens no-one starved on the journey. ;-). Lovely film.

1:58 "Merry Chrimmas!" Ha ha ha, I love when they really lay on the Appalachian language!

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

😂🥰🙏🎄

Cold hands and feet WARM heart❤ My mom used to say that lol. We have fake tree but love real trees. When I was little we had a silver tree with a big light that turn yellow, blue, red, green. I loved that tree. Get you a Charlie Brown tree😉 oh wow, them beautiful mountain's

Enjoyed that road trip. Thanks fam . Y'all look sensational....there by the grace of god go we...blessings y'all.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

For warmer feet try real wool socks, cotton is for cooling. Also, there are some cute free patterns for crocheted "pine cones" that are cute to make for tree decorations or a bunting-type decoration.

I remember when I was little my father sketched and cut out a star from a card board box and then covered it with tin foil to use as the tree topper for our tree . We used to go ride around the woods looking for a suitable tree , sometimes we would come home with one we thought looked maybe a bit sparse , but once we got it home and decorated we all loved it. You folks all got a smile that looks like Christmas I thought ! Nice truck dad !

The prettiest tree that I have ever seen is at the Candle Shop of the Poconos in Pennsylvania. It was a hugh artificial tree that looked real that had snow on the top. It was decorated perfectly but the cost was $900.00. That is just not me, I am a traditional person and love live trees. Even Charlie Brown trees. Giving life to some forgotten tree is what is best for me.

We live on what used to be a Christmas tree farm. Our county (Ashe County NC) claims to be the county that produces more Christmas tree than any other county in the country.

Such a beautiful day there. Thanks for sharing, girls.

I just luv yall! God Bless! Keep'em coming, I look forward always to the next!

When we built out house we bought trees with a ball. And planted it in our yard. I bet we gave at least a dozen on our land. 🎄🎄🎄 Omg when we would travel my mom would take bananas and short bread cookies 😊 I have an artificial by the fire place. I have actually had a Norfolk pine the little ones you get at the stores at Christmas time. I received it as a gift. It is now in my front room almost to the top of the 12 ft ceiling. I received it in 2000.

Daddy always cut a Cedar, it was a fight to decorate because they’re prickly, but boy did the house smell good. 🎄 Thanks for sharing 💝

@ernestbateman8485

2 жыл бұрын

Always had a Cedar Christmas tree .Funny Story. Dad had a farm About a hour & half drive On interstate. I had a 1965 V.W. Beetle. Tied tree on Top & here i go. But the Wind that Cedar tree caught, had to down Shift to pull a hill. Just Like an 18 wheeler. Got a fake tree now. MISS THAT SMELL But My fake tree gets More real every year. The needles are so old Ya have to sweep before & after.

I think this is my favorite one so far. My kids would also have an ax fight in the backseat if given the opportunity. Lol. Fun stuff and I love Christmas and decorating for the seasons with my kids.

Y’all are just precious 🥰

💜🎄💜🎄💜🎄💜 (One of the ads that came up after your video was Dolly Parton telling us about her new fragrance “Scent From Above.” She’s so cute.💜)

My husband and I usually cut a tree right around Thanksgiving but last year we didn't have a Christmas so we made up for it by getting our tree up at the beginning of November. It's going to be crispy by Christmas but we're enjoying it.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

I’m with you, make Christmas last as long as possible!!

Precious family time. Thanks for sharing. Friend from North Georgia Mountains

Always a real tree, Frasier Fir, one 12', and one 8'. Beautiful mountains around here. Thanks for sharing your adventures!

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Look like you ladies were cramped in the back seat. But still had fun, that's what it's all about being with the family.I been watching y'all's video for awhile now, and I've come to the conclusion that Katie is the family clown. My youngest son was called the class clown he's 40 now and still clowns around I love it when people are cheerful. Keep on keeping on. God bless

One year I had a round tree like the one you saw. I had a Jewish couple over for dinner and we all referred to it as a Hanukkah 🕎 bush.

Your kitchen light blinks on the screen too but not in the kitchen. You need UGGs Corrie to keep your feet warm. It works! I love that type of tree. So nice you all go together. Next year you'll b married! Musical angels. Perfect.

I keep telling my husband that I am going to run into y’all eventually up there..we love taking weekend rides. We are also looking for a cabin to buy in Murphy! Love your family…just good people!

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely if you see us, come up and say hey!

Thanks for the video. 💜💜

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Nice tree farm! I like your Dad’s truck. I have the TRD Sport. Liked his coat too! Always liked that color combination

All my family have died, so it is a nice reminder to see you at Christmas.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

God bless you and Merry Christmas!! 🎁🎄

@auscomvic9900

2 жыл бұрын

@@thepressleygirls And you!

I used to live in Avery County NC across from a tree farm, they start cutting trees in October to sell to big cities!

Corrie, I've learned from being a skier that one pair of wool socks works best. Wearing two pair of socks actually restricts the movement of your feet, which causes them to become colder. ? Hope it works for you. 🙂

Yall are very blessed and fortunate to have such a close and caring family, especially for the holidays. Really enjoyed shopping for the tree and seeing your beautiful countryside. I wish all the very best CHRISTmas has to offer.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and God bless! 🎄🙏🥰

beautiful scenery and fun to watch! love the bloopers lol

That looked fun.

I would take the cut off branches to make a wreath or centerpiece.😍 Aww you did. I type as I watch.

"Real tree, mossy oak." Lol. I caught that.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

I wondered who would 😂

I have many Griswold family tree hunting Experiences 🙂 here's just one. Me, my friend and our girlfriend's were driving around looking for 2 perfect trees on the edge of our country roads. His girlfriend yells stop, that's the one I want. He climbs 20 feet up this pine tree to cut the top out while I watch for traffic. When the tree top fell it almost hit me in the road. She looked at it and said, Nah, I don't like it, come on down!😳🤣 Glad y'all decided to go to a Tree Farm and get a Perfect Tree! Can't decide which blooper was the funniest!😂

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Oh goodness! 😂🎄

Thank you for making my day. I feel right at home listening to the way you talk. I understand every word from everyone. I am a native 58 year old man who was born in Asheville. I lived in black mountain before and I currently live in Swannanoa. I work at Kearfott between black mountain and Swannanoa. I wish I had some good old fashioned cooking like your momma does. I have no one really left to chat with. Your videos make me happy. Thank you so much...

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Thomas, I’m so glad our videos make you happy, you are always welcome here with the Pressley Family! 🙏🥰

Nothing prettier than a real green tree.

We trade fresh chocolate chip cookies for a neighbor's cedar tree in his sheep field. That has been our tradition for the past 10 years.

After about 22/23 years of having a fake tree (gosh I can't believe it's been that long! lol) we got a real one this year! We had them when I was real little, but I guess it was easier for my mom + dad having kids. When we did get real trees we would go up to my great grandpas farm! Don't remember much but we have the pictures!!

When i was coming up we had to cut our tree from the woods. We thought we didnt have the $ to buy a christmas tree. All it took was one slip of the saw followed by a trip to the ER to encourage my parents to make some budget changes for the future. God bless merry Christmas love you all.

I love your videos. Very informative and funny. You ladies, mom and two daughters are absolutely, positively gorgeous!!!!

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I heard recently that if you keep your wrists and ankles warm that helps warm the rest of you. So I had a pair of thick socks with worn-out feet. I cut the feet off and just wear the tops of the sock up over my ankles as an additional layer. I’ve noticed that helps me stay a lot warmer😊.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a great idea!

Mountain views never grow old we are running behind this year. We usually fix a couple trees. My wife fixes her one In the kitchen that all the ornaments are all M&M characters from past Christmas. Have you ever heard the Christmas song Greenie the Christmas tree. It's on KZread. Thank you for sharing.

Beautiful tree 🌲 Brings back childhood memories!! When I was growing up in the early 80s I would go out in the wood of our farm and cut a tree with and cross cut saw. It was usual a Spurs pine,that and regular pines are all that is around here. We would place the tree in a five gallon bucket and fill half way up with gravel and that was our stand. And would water it along. Lol.

Good morning Presley family.

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Morning!

This is KZread GOLD!!

Blue spruce is the only Christmas tree I’ve ever had, family tradition. Hay rides and hot chocolate through the rows of trees as we’d look them all over, nests are a cool bonus I agree.🎄 love your sister bond!

We always got a real tree until we retired. Then we got a good artificial. I made one of those ceramic trees. It was in a box that didnt make it on the moving ship. So many things in that box that we so special. Get you a Frasier Fir. They are so beautiful. And, they are grown in your area. Oh you got a frazier Fir. You are going to love it and it fills the house with its beautiful scent. Its going to loose a bunch of needles because they didnt shake the tree to get all the loose stuff out. Ha Ha y'all crack me up. Makes me miss my sis. This is the silly things we used to do.

Cool!

That brought back memories. We used to do that when I was young, although not in a mountain setting, so beautiful. And sisters are a blessing!

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Fun trip, ladies, and the scenery is too beautiful! i keep seeing some people say celebrating Christmas and other holidays is evil because some druids or dark religions held those days as special ritual days.. They simply are not thinking it through. Evil is in the heart and minds of people doing evil. There's not the first shred of evil in the families gathering with love, food, gifts and decoration, especially when they're making the birth of Christ as their reason for the season. I won't let evil take away such a precious family celebration of Christ. Merry Christmas to the Pressleys and every one here.

When Yvonne was still with us we went all all decorating for Christmas. She loved it so much. Since she left us and it's just me here all alone it just don't seem right. I gave all her decorations to the kids. Missy said "Daddy, do you want me to put you up a little tree?" I told her yes. "Where?" "At your house!" "Why?" "Nobody will see it here!" Losing a loved one is hard! Especially at birthdays, anniversaries and holidays!

You girls have big, beautiful brown eyes. Haven't noticed before. God bless you, and Merry Christmas .

We always got our trees from local tree farm. We cut all but a few. Sometimes the snow was too deep to get into the trunk. Hope you guys have a Blessed Christmas and an Awesome New Year. I enjoyed your tree farm experience...it is a lot of fun. God Bless You All! Merry Christmas. I just now saw the antics at the end...ax fight and all. You guys are craaa-zy!

Nice Tree Yall

Love this!💙

My momma always had ger tree ready and Thanksgiving evening she turned all the lights on....

I have a ceramic tree and a little white artificial tree my two youngest grandson’s bought me for my desk. ❤️👦🏼🧑🏻❤️ Then we have an artificial tree we leave up all year because our dog loves to lay back behind it! Thanks for sharing this. Going to watch you decorate it next. ❤️🎄

Enjoyed God bless

could sit on feet to keep them warm or get a electric cover and plug in truck - when overheat metal and hit it with super cold it will crack like people - so don't want hot water - unless drinking and only sip before get cold and take chill out - could take up yoga to get the blood circulating - and i always leave my tree in the wood because i always know what i am getting for Christmas -same thing the tree was and that is nothing

Ya’ll was at my in-laws place! My mother in laws family runs the farm. Ya’ll picked a pretty one!

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

They were wonderful people and such a pretty place! 🙏🥰

My momma and daddy had a place near Topton on Wayah Rd. After driving ALL the way there, I used to ask them Wayah move all the way out here? 😄 🤣 😂

You video reminded me of several Christmas tree stories from my life. When I was little we lived in an apartment. My mom and dad picked up a tree at a tree lot. The tree was wrapped in string and frozen...from being outside. They set it up in our dinning room and went to bed. In the morning with tree thawed and the branches dropped it was so big it touched every wall. We couldn't even enter the dinning room. When I was older and married my wife wanted to decorate the tree with homemade decorations made with food, like popcorn and cranberry garland and gingerbread--men cookies. When she was done the tree was beautiful. In the morning however, the dogs had taken a bite from every gingerbread-man on the tree....it looked like a tree full of people who were missing their limbs. Finally, one year we took down our tree and through it into the woods behind our house to let it return to the earth. But much to our surprise, in the spring, the tree had grown new roots and was sending up new sprouts and limbs. Over the years it grew into a tall pine tree again.

Good morning y'all❗🌲

@thepressleygirls

2 жыл бұрын

Morning!