Students excitedly greeted the Saunders’ dog “Dakota.”

Students slide around on the Saunders ice covered driveway.

Fourth-graders help to load their tree into a truck.

Students from Winkel’s class run around in the field of Christmas trees.

Rena Gedde gets help from her teacher Katherine Winkel to cut down their class tree.

Students make snow angels in front of their bus while waiting for other classes to finish cutting their trees.

Two students from McDonald’s class stand by their chosen tree.

A student plays with snow while waiting for her turn to cut the tree.

Students in Winkel’s class lay on the ground in order to cut down their chosen tree.

School buses pull into the Saunders’ tree farm Thursday morning.