Festival of the Trees....Sam's Tree
My mother-in-law, Tracie, has been helping the Sunset Jr High cheerleaders do a tree for the Festival of the Trees for the past few years, and last year she asked me and Kandi and Krystle (my sisters-in-law) if we would like to do a family tree this year. We decided that it would be fun, so we got a tree ready. We picked the theme 'A Family Christmas', and went from there. Here is what the tree looked like. ( I found it hard to get a good picture becuase of the lights from all of the other trees, and I'm not a professional photographer :))
There were Santa heads, nativitys, stockings, jingle bells, pointsettas, shiny red leaves, and lots of ornaments that looked like ones you would find on a family Christmas tree. It looked a little 'country-ish'. We actually did a set-up to go with it. A rocking chair with blanket and pillow, a fireplace with stockings, a fischer price nativity scene, fake presents ;) and a treasure chest filled with Christmas books.
Here is a close-up of the fireplace. I thought it was cool because if you just wanted the effect of the fire but with no heat, you could do it. If you look closely at the tree you can see red jingle bell garland. I loved it. It is on top of the fireplace too.
Here is a close-up of under the tree. The tree skirt, nativity and treasure box filled with books. The kids loved helping me find all of the books. Ben loved playing with the nativity, just like he does at home. 
Tracie asked if we knew anyone at Primary Children's hopsital to whom we could dedicate the tree to. I didn't know anyone, and then Tamina had Sam and he had to be there for 3 weeks, so we dedicated the tree to him. We had a cute collage of pictures and his story there at the front of the display. If you look at the 2nd picture of the post, you can kind-of see the easel with his picture in it. We had fun making the tree. We might even brave making one for next year. It is for a good cause :) This was one of the kids favorite trees there. It said 'Maui Christmas!' They definitely get points for creativity!
There were Santa heads, nativitys, stockings, jingle bells, pointsettas, shiny red leaves, and lots of ornaments that looked like ones you would find on a family Christmas tree. It looked a little 'country-ish'. We actually did a set-up to go with it. A rocking chair with blanket and pillow, a fireplace with stockings, a fischer price nativity scene, fake presents ;) and a treasure chest filled with Christmas books.
Here is a close-up of the fireplace. I thought it was cool because if you just wanted the effect of the fire but with no heat, you could do it. If you look closely at the tree you can see red jingle bell garland. I loved it. It is on top of the fireplace too.
Here is a close-up of under the tree. The tree skirt, nativity and treasure box filled with books. The kids loved helping me find all of the books. Ben loved playing with the nativity, just like he does at home. 
Tracie asked if we knew anyone at Primary Children's hopsital to whom we could dedicate the tree to. I didn't know anyone, and then Tamina had Sam and he had to be there for 3 weeks, so we dedicated the tree to him. We had a cute collage of pictures and his story there at the front of the display. If you look at the 2nd picture of the post, you can kind-of see the easel with his picture in it. We had fun making the tree. We might even brave making one for next year. It is for a good cause :) This was one of the kids favorite trees there. It said 'Maui Christmas!' They definitely get points for creativity!
3 comments:
Great Job Kim! Your tree and setup look beautiful! I used to love going to the festival of trees. We went every year as a family.
You guys did great! Where did you find that treasure chest for the books? That's cute. Jeff has something like that...I need/want something to put our Christmas books in. We have a ton! Hmm.
Liked the Maui tree too. Never been to the Festival of Trees, but looks like it'd be fun.
It was awesome! Thanks for the great tree! I need those pictures. When we went to see Sam's tree I took the camera, but there was no card. :(
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