Festival of the Trees

SM and I met my mom and sister at the Festival of the Trees on Saturday morning. Above is an entry that I absolutely love...Candyland. As a speech therapist, I used the game Candyland as a method of practicing good articulation. Before any of the students had a turn at the game, they'd have to say a number of words with correct articulation. I really enjoyed playing the game with them.

This was another entry in the gingerbread house decorating. It's not a house, it's a castle. I can't remember the name of the castle but I believe it was modeled after a real castle.

Here's a picture of my sister. When she was younger, she belonged to groups that would perform at the Festival of the Trees...and that's how it started that we'd attend the event. It was fun to see youth groups singing and dancing there on Saturday. It brought back some great memories.

This was one of my sisters' favorite tree grouping. It had a dancing theme and since she's the dancer in the family and she loves the colors hot pink and blake...she liked this one.

This saying was on a tree with the theme of Lacrosse...but it really made us all laugh.

I loved looking at this blown glass tree. There were lights positioned below the glass and lit up different parts of the tree as music played in the background. It was fascinating. SM had a totally different opinion of the tree. He didn't like it at all.
Mom and I found Santa. I think he got carried away with the bronzer...what do you think?

This was a tree that SM did like. He was contimplating buying the tree because it was one of the lower priced trees but then realized that this wasn't true Aggie Blue and decided not to get it. (side note: I don't think he really would have bought a tree but everyone can dream, right?)

This tree was also a favorite of mine. The tree is not in the shape of a triangle...it's actually sort of spiraled up to the top. The theme is "The Grinch that Stole Christmas" and has Whoville members...it was so cute.

This was one of SM's favorite trees. He has a thing for penguins this year.

This tree has a Hawaiian theme...and since my sister spent a couple years attending BYU-H...she loved this tree theme.
Here's a photo of my mom, me and my sister.

And this is a close up on my favorite themed tree...called Wicked. I loved the spiders all over the tree. Now, this is not a tree that I could actually put up at Christmas time...it would just be too weird, but I really loved the creativity that went into this tree.

And here's the full tree. I know it's strange but I think that's what I like about it.