Thursday, December 1, 2011

The Festival of Trees.

Hey Ladies and Gents, I'm Tombstones daughter, Kaybi. I had the opportunity to go to the Festival of Trees today with my rug rats, my Mother and Sister in law and her kids. After my kids cried through another year of pictures with Santa and Mrs. Clause we started walking up and down the many many rows of Christmas trees. We found Dad's tree and I couldn't find my phone fast enough when I saw the sold sign. I had to tell my Dad the good news right then!

The Festival of Trees is such an amazing fundraiser. More than $29.3 million has been raised since 1973. Of that, $1.9 million was raised in 2010 with 95,000 people attending the week long festival. All of the funds raised go to the Primary Children's Hospital.

I'm so proud of my Dad for participating in such a wonderful fundraiser. I'm proud of him for his creative idea and seeing it through till it was finished. I'm proud of my Mom for supporting him through all of this work. A big thank you to all those who helped him along his way and donated items for the tree.


One last thing, the company who bought the tree was Struck Axiom. Dad and I were curious so we looked them up and it all made sense. They are a creative company that thinks outside the box. An especially big thank you to them!

Merry Christmas everyone!

10 comments:

Ken said...

Nice post! Thanks for the update, and I think you should be the head poster here... Oh yes, and I agree with all the things you said about me.

Unknown said...

Way to go, we're proud of you for taking part for charity. Good for you.

Brady
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CINAMUN said...

CONGRATS, Now I know where Will gets all his creative Ideas

Trobairitz said...

Good job and congrats on the sale! It is an awesome tree for an awesome cause.

Wish I had just an ounce of that creativity.....sigh

Tarsnakes Down Under said...

Hey ken, CONGRATULATIONS!

Ken said...

Thanks to all of you, and a big thanks to my favorite daughter for this latest post!

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JMGant said...

Saw it on Saturday! Looked awesome!

I think it was the only tree, that wasn't actually a tree. :)

BeemerGirl said...

That is such a cool and unique tree!! Did you want to make another one for home?

Ken said...

BeemerGirl - I made a suggestion like that, but it was met with a stony silence. In other words, no.