Gingerbread Houses and Scouting & PTA

This morning I was asked to go help at a fundraiser activity at Thanksgiving Point.

The caller must have been in charge of some of this activity since she sounded so desperate and is also in my ward. I had no good reason to not go help them out in the bind that the PTA found themselves in at the last minute. I was already dressed to go out so thought why not go help?

Ellen T., her husband and family, moved in the ward about the same week as we did. They have a son on a mission, a daughter who just graduated from high school and a couple of younger girls about 13 years and 8 years old. I am just guessing on their ages. Her mother used to be the principal at Cascade Elementary when Tana, Michael were going to school there. The other younger two missed out since she moved schools to the Provo School District where she lives closest to for her job. I think she is still a principal now. They are a friendly family and I have sat next to Ellen often in R.S. until she was called to Primary.

Anyway my helping out for an hour and a half turned out to be quite pleasant. The Christmas decorations were in the process of going up with lots of lights, and artificial Christmas trees to decorate for the event. It reminded me of a small scale Festival of the Trees at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City.





Eric Dowdle is an artist that does a lot of local scenery in his paintings, like Temple square, Pioneers, the skyline of downtown Salt Lake City. He does a lot of puzzles with his paintings, so I am almost sure you would recognize some of his art work.


It looked like there would be a silent auction of some kind, by the looks of the paintings that were brought in by the artist, Eric Dowdle while I was there watching everyone scurry around to get things ready for the three day event.



The Gingerbread houses were so beautiful, with some that looked like mini-mansions representing the late 1800s. I took several photos of the display, so I will post them a little later.

I really think the event is something my grandchildren would love to go, see and do. The volunteer work I was doing was helping the bakery booth squeeze that thick white frosting into a 2 1/2" by 2" zip lock baggie. They were going to sell $1.00 gingerbread cookies and have frosting ready to glue them onto the cookies with lots of hard candy to decorate the cookies. It was a nice intro to the Christmas season and Spirit. There was even Christmas Carols playing which were rather nice considering we were there to help raise money for the local Scouts and schools.

It was a sticky messy kind of job to put the frosting in those small zip-lock bags, --but someone had to do it! So I, and two other ladies inserted the frosting for the fund raiser activity. The UVU culinary department are in charge of that booth which took up a rather large size area, with several long tables connected in a line long enough to have like a mini-general store. It looked very nice with all the red and white aprons, candies ready to go for the cookies, with lots of Eric Dowdle puzzles to sell in metal cans for the fund raiser.

The day was kind of cloudy and looked like it might rain some time today, but I don't think it did but it got very cold, with some wind blowing and sprinkling enough to have to turn on the windshield wipers. Winter is trying very hard to come before Thanksgiving. Too bad. I really liked the fall weather, but the trees are losing
all their leaves so the dreary brown trees are about all you see outside these days.

It is late so I can download the Gingerbread house(s)pictures tomorrow.