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Festival of Trees 2011

Sue — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:40:07 +0000

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 interests, so this year we did a classical music tree and called it “Joy to the World”. We are in our customary spot on the east end of aisle C in space C-21, in honor of the planes he was flying when he died. We got it all decorated yesterday and it came out very nice. In addition to our family tree, the Fazulyanov’s did a small Fairy tree that’s very pink!

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Twins

Sue — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:19:03 +0000

Our twin nieces arrived yesterday!

Sitting on Santa’s lap…over time

Sue — Tue, 31 May 2011 00:10:14 +0000

I have taken pictures of people sitting on Santa’s lap at the Carey Christmas party for the last several years and thought it would be fun to see how we’ve changed through the years. So here are some photos, organized by family.

See us sit on Santa’s lap. See us have fun. See us get older.

Disclaimer: I thought I snapped feverishly at every party and got every child every year. But when I gathered up all the pictures I found some people are missing. I can’t explain this, so nobody should infer anything or take this personally. There’s one year I don’t even have pictures of both my own children. I can’t explain this, either. If you have other shots you’d like me to include for posterity, send them along and I’ll update this post!

Click on a photo to see them all in a gallery by family.

Scott & Sue’s family

Phil & Janice’s family

Paul & Michelle’s family

Brent & Teresa’s family

Mark & Sonja’s family

Ildar & Christine’s family

Carey Christmas Party

Sue — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:00:29 +0000

Every year we have a Carey Christmas party before Christmas at the Rapp house in Bountiful. This year our gathering was rather smaller than usual as Scott’s brother Mark had moved his family to Virginia, near Brent’s family; Matt, Brian, Patrice, and Shawn, are on missions; and two of the married Greenhalgh kids couldn’t come, plus Mark had to work at the MTC. We were there with no kids, Janice and Phil were there with their oldest, Paul, and his wife Tania, and baby Addy; the Rapps with their four youngest; the Fazulyanov family; Grandma Carey and Aunt Renae. We had lots of yummy food and then the kids all performed a Christmas number of some kind and the adults told a story relating to Christmas. Then we sang our traditional “12 Days of Christmas” by holding up the cards. That has been sung at every Carey Christmas since long before I joined the family 26 years ago. Several years ago Janice made each family a large set of matching cards and each time your number comes up you have to stand and hold up your card. Mysteriously, Paul Rapp always gets 12 drummers drumming which means he only stands once. (Younger kids usually opt for a partridge in a pear tree, allowing them twelve opportunities to rise and hold). We had a great time, as always, and enjoyed being together at Christmas.

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Festival of Trees 2010

Sue — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:23:25 +0000

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 snowmen and ice cream. It was black, white, and silver, with red accents. Christine made cookies and cream ice cream scoops out of play dough and Oreos to put in the ice cream dishes and Mom tested several brands of ice cream as she emptied out containers to put under the tree. You can click on a photo and see them larger in a gallery.

Sue’s Friday Fill-in

Sue — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:00:26 +0000

1. Apparently there’s some sort of time warp going on because we just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary and Mark will have been out on his mission a year in a couple weeks. What the??

2. I just love a sunny day.

3. 2009 has been a real test for my word of the year, serene, so far.

4. You start your youngest in preschool in 1994; in 2009 he graduates from high school and that was it.

5. For too long I’ve been wishing for winter to be over.

6. I am not obsessed with reading; I am not!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to an evening of Star Trek: Voyager with Scott, tomorrow my plans include volunteering at the State Solo & Ensemble Festival and Sunday, I want to catch up on news with my siblings!

2008 Festival of Trees

Sue — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:40:14 +0000

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.

Welcome home, Brent

Scott — Tue, 29 May 2007 04:22:43 +0000

Brent is returning home tomorrow after a year deployment in Iraq. We are very excited and relieved that he returned safely and I'm sure that he looks forward to being with his family again. On this Memorial Day our thoughts turn to all those who work to keep us free. We owe much to all who have fought and served on our behalf.

Jill serving a mission

Scott — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:52:46 +0000

Our niece Jill (Janice and Phil's daughter) leaves today to begin service as a missionary in the Korea Seoul West Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She will spend about 12 weeks in language training before heading to Korea. This is the same mission that Scott served in from 1979-1981 and Scott's brother Brent served in as well from 1982-1984. So that will be three from our family that have served in that mission. We wish Jill well and send our thoughts and prayers with her as she begins this service.

Paul Rapp Retires

Scott — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:21:18 +0000

Congratulations to Paul, Michelle's husband, on his retirement from his position of Chief of Police in Bountiful. He had a 26 year career in law enforcement. Thanks, Paul, for all you did. I know that Michelle said she has plenty of things for you to do now, so I don't think that it will be much of a rest!