Festival of Trees 2012

This year we went up to the Festival of Trees.  It's beautiful there.  I must admit, I might enjoy it even more if I didn't have to help a 4 & 2-year-old be happy.  It's the last place (besides Chuck-E-Cheese) that you'd want to be if you had a migraine.  Luckily, I didn't have one, so we really did enjoy ourselves.  

Basically, it's a fundraiser for the Children's Hospital.  People decorate trees in honor of those who have passed on or who are fighting illnesses. It's a tear-jerker.  Other people buy the trees to raise money.  And we pay a small fee to come and look at the gorgeous trees.  

Here's Whitney in front of a Tangled Tree.  There were a few of these, but this was the first one she spotted.  

 Here's another Tangled-Themed tree.

 Bubba probably had the hardest time.  Here he is on Bart's shoulders so he'll stay out of all the Christmas decorations.

Bart would love one like this someday:

So cute:

Quite the display:

There were lots of dance groups putting on shows. Whitney LOVED watching them.  In fact, that was all she wanted to do.  

Now, I snapped this picture, because I couldn't get enough of this baby's bow.  

Yes, that large thing on her head is a bow.  T.U.  T.U. T.U.  

We stopped to look at the gingerbread houses.  Here is one that looks like the Provo Tabernacle. 

Love it.

And then it was time to go:  

See how you sometimes have to strap in a two-year old so they won't go grabbing all of the things?

In other news:  MacKay went through a stage where he was obsessed with the toilets.  Flushing, sitting-on, putting toilet paper into, etc, etc.  Here he is after his first poop (and his only poop) in the toilet.