Christmas Lights and the Festival of Trees

Justin put up the Christmas lights awhile ago and every night since Elsie stands at our front door looking out the window at our lights. Elsie absolutely loves Christmas lights so on Saturday we took her to Thanksgiving Point to see their "drive thru" lights. Elsie absolutely loved it, but I really do not think it was worth the $7. We really could have just driven around our neighborhood looking at all of the lights on the houses and she would have been happy.

We went to the Festival of Trees last week which was fun but also very sad. I could not help reading the plaques beside many trees about the description of who the tree was dedicated to and feel sad. There were so many trees dedicated to little babies who did not have the chance to live or only lived for a short time. My heart ached for so many of those who lost loved ones. The Festival of Trees is such an amazing fundraiser for the Primary Children's Hospital. I am amazed that every penny goes to the fundraiser. There are so many volunteers that give so much time and money.

I have always loved the Festival of Trees. This was the first year in about 10 years that I was not either performing or watching my dance classes perform. My life has certainly changed over the past year. Pretty much all of my time goes to Elsie. Sometimes I miss teaching dance and being in the "real working world" but this will only be for a short time I am grateful I get to be home. I was in the kitchen and was looking to see what Elsie was doing. I found her sitting in our end table drawer! I was nervous that it was going either tip over or break and so I don't let her sit in it anymore, but I had to take a couple pictures because it was so funny.