This is the 12th year we have decorated a large tree in honor of Scott’s deceased brother, Paul, for the Festival of Trees which provides charity care for patients at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Each year we have tried to pick a theme that had something to do with his [...]

Our extended Carey family does a tree every year for the Festival of Trees that benefits Primary Childrens Medical Center.  We do it in honor of Scott’s brother, Paul, an Air Force pilot killed when his plane crashed in Alabama in 1995.  This year our Carey tree was themed “Cookies and Cream” and we did [...]

Scott’s parents and siblings decorate a tree each year in honor of his brother, Paul, who died while on active duty in the Air Force.  (You can see previous trees in our Archives.)  All proceeds from the Festival of Trees goes to charity care at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City.  This year [...]

This year for our Festival of Tree tree we decided to have a music theme, since Paul loved music.  We had an electric guitar, drum set, a bunch of 45 records, and an autographed CD from Melissa Etheridge (Melissa went to the same junior high and high school as we did and was Janice's age). [...]

Festival of Trees 2006 is underway.  Monday was decorating day and Tuesday was bid night.  Our tree was purchased on bid night by American Express (thanks!).  Our theme this year was an old fashioned Christmas, and honoring our brother Paul (who died in the line of duty in 1995) and brother Brent (for his service in [...]

Our tree for the Festival of Trees 2005 had a snowman theme.  Here are some of the pictures for this year:  

Our tree for the Festival of Trees 2004 had a popcorn theme in memory of Paul's love of popcorn.  We made the TV news with our tree.  This link (http://kutv.dayport.com/launcher/3929/?tf=video_player.tpl) has a news report and at the end is a brief reference to and TV shots of our tree. Here are some of the pictures: [...]

Our tree for Festival of Trees 2003 was actually a woodland scene with a bunch of trees and a waterfall!