Our trees gave their all!

Saturday was our ward Christmas party and I was on the decorating committee. We used the boughs of our tree to put down the center of the tables and along the front of the stage. We added gingerbread men cookies and snowflakes. On the tables, there was also red ribbon to add some color and we put crayons on the tables, that were covered with paper, so that the children could color. It was great and it really kept the kids from running all over the place. My friend Leslie came up with the ideas and I just helped.

We always thought it would have been fun to put lights on those huge trees but it would have cost a small fortune. Well, they did get some lights in them along the stage. Someone came up after looking at everything when we were finished and said our trees never looked so beautiful! They did!

While I was decorating at the church, men from the ward were at our house for Super Service Saturday grinding up the stumps from the trees. There is a man that had some connections and he got the equipment for nothing. It was cold and it was snowing off and on. Thanks guys! The tree that you see on the right is the next one to go in the spring.

This is just one of the stumps. It doesn't look all that big but they were. The men dug around the base and around the biggest roots and used the grinder on them. Our yard looks so much bigger and empty now. I look at it as a blank canvas and when the curb and gutter gets put in next spring, we can start working on "painting" a beautiful yard.

Thank you again to all those men who braved the cold weather!