Festival of Trees

This year for her Christmas present, my mom requested that we do a tree for the Festival of Trees since she is in Russia. Becca, Melanie and I went shopping after Christmas last year to find items that we would want to decorate the tree with. Definitely the time to go since most of it was part of their after-Christmas clearance. :) Melanie came up with the name of our tree (in addition to her help shopping), Heather made the tree skirt, and on the Monday following Thanksgiving this year, Michael and I joined Jeff and Becca and our cousin Em at the South Town Expo Center to decorate the tree. Michael and Jeff did the structural part of the tree, making sure it was sturdy and would stay together during transport (after it was purchased), and the girls did the decorating. I only have one picture of the final product, so I'm going to link to the other posts that have been written about it so that you can see more pictures (although some of them are duplicates). It was a lot of fun to do, and there were a lot of "Well, next year we should do this" or "Next year will be easier because..." or just plain "Next year..." :)

We were glad to see that our tree sold, and to hear that it sold for so much! It was a fun experience and a fun atmosphere to be in with everyone else who was there on "Decorating Day."