This is the tree inside the lobby of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It was so fun to see this tree being decorated. First of all, the tree was assembled. A young man stood on the framework inside the tree to add the "branches" of the tree. Then, on Monday morning we watched as they put out all the boxes of decorations in a large circle around the tree. I watched for several minutes before I realized that there were two young women inside the branches of the tree covering the framework with fabric. Others were sitting with boxes of ornaments around them making clusters of different ornaments to be put onto the tree. You can see from the pictures the progression. One photo is a picture of one of the women inside the tree and then a picture of what the tree looked like when I left to go to work about 8:30AM after our devotional on Monday. There is also a picture of the finished tree when we returned to the building about 3 hours later. The woman on the lift was putting some last minute touches on the tree being directed by the lead decorator from the Mezzanine. She was walking around up there and directing from above. It was very fun to watch.
The real story behind these photos is that I saw this project beginning before our devotional but I didn't have my camera. After the devotional I asked Ed if he would walk back over to our apartment to get the camera for me so I could take some pictures. He did it! And with a smile on his face. What a guy!! It was very cold and it is a 10-15 minute walk each way so it wasn't a little thing. I am so glad that I have the pictures, but I am more glad that I have such a cute husband!
I hope you enjoy the pictures. I will try to take a photo of the full lobby tomorrow so I can have that. It looks so beautiful. There are trees in all the event rooms and decorated trees on each floor in the library. I love seeing the big tree in the window of the Conference Center but I haven't been inside there yet and I haven't been into all the other buildings on the Church campus yet. I will visit them while I am here. It is such a wonderful place to be. I am so happy to be here.
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