Once upon a time, we had to drive all the way into church on Gunnison Avenue. Then after the stake was split we ended up in the Stake Center for a couple years while they built a new chapel for 10th & 11th Wards on Orchard Mesa. My Dad was the Bishop when they started and dedicated that building. He put a lot of time into making sure that building was designed for a growing ward. After Daddy died, Brother Jay Olsen and a couple other men in our ward petitioned Salt Lake to plant a tree with a plaque in memory of my Dad. It started out as a little bitty Blue Spruce.
One year my cousin's wife Lynette had her children make ornaments to hang on the tree. My Mom started putting those little ornaments on for a couple years, but the tree just got so big it started to swallow them up.
So, I decided that I would surprise my sisters and my Mom, by having Jason and Casey, along with my kids decorate the tree with red Christmas ribbons.
Over the next few years it became a family tradition to decorate that tree, but it kept getting bigger and bigger!
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(Oh yeah...fat Allison helped too...)
We had someone complain, so we stopped. I'm not really sure why they would...but..
Anyway, I probably will start this tradition again, I still have all the ribbons, I just need to get a cherry picker, because the tree is pretty big now!
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Such a Jason pose on the 2nd to last one.
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