Festival of Trees!!!

Each year James and I love going to the festival of trees. The spirit of those angels, the love of their families, the generosity of the people there fills the air with the smell of fudge, scones, and roasted almonds. It is definitely a tradition James and I have started and will continue for a very long time. We love it. This year we took lots of pictures and I have categorized our favorites for all of you to see.
CLASSICS:

These nutcrackers were for the tree right below. The theme was rock n roll! It was so cute. 

This was a darling Coca-Cola Tree. We really liked it.

This tree was called "Retro". All the toys were classics from long time ago. This tree was so beautiful. 

This tree reminded me of my Grandpa Madsen. It's a John Wayne tree. All over the tree are John Wayne quotes, and underneath the tree are all his movies. So cute!

HOME:

This category is full of things James and I loved that we would enjoy in our own home. 

This Lantern was so beautiful. I have been looking for one for a very long time. This is exactly what I wanted. 

These cute little Moose are under the Mooseltoe, wishing everyone a Merry Kissmoose!

This Tree has temples all over it, and as you can see is was titled Stand in Holy Places. It was so very pretty.

BOYS:

These trees were all for little boys. They are darling!

This tree had all this little boys artwork of Dragons, and included a whole bunch of Dragon stuff animals, as well as the entire series of How to Train Your Dragon books. 

This tree reminds me of James. It's a future Engineer Tree. All the ornaments look as follows:

Yep, they are made from legos, or computer boards. James thought it was so clever!

This was the Hot Rod tree. See all those hot rods on the ground there was about 300 hot wheels. Can you imagine having to pick all those up?? Some little boys is going to be VERY happy. Holy smokes!

This was the Ninja turtles tree. The little boy standing in front of us thought it was the coolest thing!

This is the space tree. James would have loved that telescope! Santa that was a hint haha 

Yes, Santa is holding a chain saw at the top of this one. This tree is covered in tools and sports. Definitely a "guy" tree.

This one is our favorite boy tree. The train tree. So darling and I love the Conductor hat at the top of the tree. This was the sign on the floor. It's true, ALL ABOARD!

GIRLS:

These are the cute little girl trees. Not as many as the boys, but still darling.

I don't know if you can tell that ALL of these are beanie babies. I bet there are about 200 beanie babies. Holy cow, they were so cute!

This was a darling cow girl tree. So stinking cute!

I loved this frog tree. I thought it was very well done.

This is the puppet tree. So many cute homemade puppets. All the little kids wanted to play with them. They had security people there watching it all. What a good idea!

MOVIE:

These trees are all based on a movie. 

Everyone knows the Grinch! I thought they did such a good job with this one that Dr. Seuss would be so pleased!

This one is Monster University. The little kids were scared! haha

Of course we have to have a Marvel tree, what would life be like if we didn't have our superhero's?

This one topped them all. This Narnia tree was breath taking. Look at the Lion head it was carved out of wood. So beautiful. My favorite of the movie trees!!!

BROOKLYN'S FAVORITE TREE:

This tree is by far my single favorite tree. I loved it!!!!

Look how cute they made the tree out of baseball bats. Each baseball team's hat is on the tree and the rest are just baseballs. But look what was on the floor!!

Collectible baseball cards. There were so many! Such a neat idea. I loved it. 

JAMES'S FAVORITE TREE:

This is Jame's favorite tree. I thought it was super cute as well.

This tree had tons of car gears, and I couldn't believe it but they were all moving!!! James loved it. I was amazed everything was spinning. Very neat! Good job!

Last but not least here is the last category.

OUR FAVORITES!

These three trees were our favorite ones of all together. 

This tree was donated in remebrance of the police officer here in Utah County that was shot and killed on scene. It was so cute, the outfits for kids, the gift cards for families, the tree covered in toy police cars and flashing lights. It was definitely a popular one there for people to see. So sweet.

This you might not believe me, this is a Nemo tree. As you can see all the Finding Nemo characters are there, and the christmas tree has a fish tank in the middle! Don't believe me look really close. The core of the tree is a tank full of water! Do you see the bubbles? How cool is that???

This is the Mickey tree that went with this...

A freaking cute Mickey and Minnie playhouse. See the shingles? They are also minnie. They have a fireplace inside, with leather chairs, and everything was full of Disney toys and Mickey and Minnie sleds for sledding. We loved it! 

We love going to this each year and are so grateful for the spirit of Christmas it brings into our lives. I hope you felt just a little bit of it as I shared some of the fun memories with you. Happy Holidays everyone!!