Festival of Trees

A favorite family tradition of ours is to go to the festival of trees. This year it seemed like everything was going on in the same week. On Wednesday we had the Festival of Trees banquet, then a Relief Society progressive dinner on Thursday, Friday was Casey's office Christmas party, Saturday morning we took our family to the F of T then went to my parent's to help film their Christmas movie, then dropped Brooklyn off at a birthday party, picked her up and went to my Mom's birthday party to make gingerbread houses!
The F of T banquets was so nice. It was unbelievable how much they were auctioning the trees off for! Some were posted for sale at $25,000! We were just there for the food. And it was so good! We could cut the steak with a butter knife! Yum!
On Saturday at the F of T the kids enjoyed taking care of their bear at the bear hospital (we are getting quite the bear collection, we're been going for 6 years x 3-4 bears each year = 18-24 stuffed bears! We might have to start giving them away!)and getting their faces painted and some crafts. Cody's favorite part was watching Providence Hospital's music video to "Down" by Jay Sean. He was mesmerized! He watched it through 3 times!