festival of trees

now that we're back in utah, we get to go to festival of trees again!  i love festival of trees.  it's so inspiring and uplifting and it is such a great cause to contribute to.

 

on our drive down to festival, i kept thinking i smelled something foul, but i couldn't figure out what it was.  when i finally pulled reese out of her car seat i found the culprit.  reese has pooped all over her outfit and her carseat!  tyler and i had to make a surprise trip to target to get reese some new clothes.  here is reese waiting for her new outfit while trying out katelyn's carseat.

she quickly discovered that katelyn keeps treasures hidden next to her seat and decided to explore.

one of my favorite parts of festival are the fabulously decorated trees. each tree is dedicated to a loved one that has passed on.  it is a very bittersweet experience walking around reading about those loved ones and seeing those trees that they most likely would have loved.

we of course had to take a picture of the green bay packers tree

speaking of the packers, while we were there, tyler's siblings gave tyler his birthday present which happened to be a green bay packer jersey.  and not any jersey, but aaron rodgers jersey (the quarterback.  tyler often got told by strangers he looked like him while in wisconsin).

we also spent some time in the kiddie area where they had a whole slew of fun activities for kids.  grandma and grandpa were so nice to spoil our kids while we were there. they let them do any activity they wanted.

 

the girls chose to get their fingernails painted.  reagan was a little nervous at first, but she loved the end result.

katelyn was in heaven, of course.  she's a girly-girl that's for sure.

the kids also got their faces painted.  katelyn thought it was so neat that her music teacher from her school painted her face.

katelyn and tanner also chose to go in the bubble machine and did a great job.

 

 

 

grandma and grandpa also let the kids choose one thing to buy and take home with them.  katelyn chose fairy wings and a wand and tanner chose cookies.  very fitting choices for each kid.

 

the whole gang