Last year I went to The Festival of Trees with Maddie's Activity Day church group so this year I made our whole family go. This really gets me into the Christmas spirit. It's a fund raiser for the Primary Children's Hospital. What's amazing about it is everything is donated. Even the employees are all volunteers so 100% of the money earned goes to the hospital. People decorate amazing trees and gingerbread houses then others can bid on them as a donation. Last year they made 1.5 million dollars. People are so generous! They had 800 trees donated this year. The other thing about it that pulls on my heart is little signs by some of the trees about children that spent lots of time in the hospital and some died and some lived but the families donate trees as a thank you. Last year our neighbor's mom died so all the sisters got together and made a tree to donate then my neighbors husband went and bought it as a surprise to his wife. Just so many sweet stories.
The "UP" house
A gingerbread bird house
I told Max to stand by his favorite tree and I'd take his picture so he chose this one.
Maddie
Tanner by the "Guitar Hero" tree
I thought this paintbrush tree was creative.
3 comments:
Wow!! Kyla those gingerbread houses are amazing!! I use graham crackers and if it sticks together I think it looks nice. Can you imagine how much time that took. WOW! That is so fun. I wonder if they have that here?...
That looks so cool. I'll bet it is kinda overwhelming on the eyes after a while. How long does the festival last?
It went from Dec. 2-5. I think the people that bought the trees want them set up in their houses so it can't go too long.
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