Carey Family Website » Festival of Trees http://www.careyfamily.org Alpine, Utah Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:42:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 2008 Festival of Trees http://www.careyfamily.org/2008-festival-of-trees/ http://www.careyfamily.org/2008-festival-of-trees/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:40:14 +0000 Sue http://www.careyfamily.org/?p=273 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 our theme was “Dance Under the Stars”, because Paul and Michelle met in a ballroom dance class at BYU.  We made it a winter scene, so Santa and Mrs. Claus are having a dance outside in the garden in the snow.  We had 3 trees, each decorated in a different color-purple, fuschia, and turqoise, an arch, garden bench, and lamppost.  Here are some candids of the tree and the decorators.

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]]> http://www.careyfamily.org/2008-festival-of-trees/feed/ 1 Festival of Trees 2007 http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2007/ http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2007/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:02:23 +0000 Scott http://www.careyfamily.org/2007/11/30/festival-of-trees-2007/ 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).

The Festival ends Saturday, December 1.  Stop by our tree if you go (it is in Row C, space 21 and is called "Jingle Bell Rock").

   

  

 

]]> http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2007/feed/ 0 Festival of Trees 2006 http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2006/ http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2006/#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:00:14 +0000 Scott http://careyfamily.org/2006/11/30/festival-of-trees-2006/ 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 Iraq).  If you are in the Utah area, be sure to go to the Festival of Trees this week (until December 2) at the SouthTowne Expo Center. Our tree is in row C. 

    

    

]]> http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2006/feed/ 0 Festival of Trees 2005 http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2005/ http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2005/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:07:22 +0000 Scott http://careyfamily.org/2005/12/01/festival-of-trees-2005/ Our tree for the Festival of Trees 2005 had a snowman theme.  Here are some of the pictures for this year:

 

]]> http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2005/feed/ 0 Festival of Trees 2004 http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2004/ http://www.careyfamily.org/festival-of-trees-2004/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:43:08 +0000 Scott http://careyfamily.org/2006/11/12/festival-of-trees-2004/ 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:

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This is the decorating group after the tree is all done.

 

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Our "popcorn tree".  

 

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See our Santa and our "popcorn snowman"–more details below.

 

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Michelle at the beginning of decorating the tree

 

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Our Popcorn snowman.  It took 50 lbs of unpopped popcorn and a whole lot marshmallow/butter "glue" (like is used to make Rice Krispy treats), to make this snowman.

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Here is our tree for Festival of Trees 2002:

             

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