Our Angel Tree

I have some catching up to do! I finished the semester last Friday with much better grades than I would have ever expected due to the fact how bad I was struggling at the beginning of the semester. So I couldn't be happier. We celebrated Preslee's Birthday and Pay it Forward project. That post is coming soon, I have a lot of pictures to sort through! All I can say is thank you, we were able to assemble 350 bags. :) Amazing! We also took off to Utah for the weekend.

Though I wrote about Christmas decorations in an earlier post, we never put up a tree. Mainly because of the hassle, we have a huge fake tree buried underneath Sno Shack supplies in our basement. That really isn't like me, I've always been a Christmas fanatic. Well, today my dad showed up with a 200 lb tree... Yes that's right. My parents had talked about planting a tree in the backyard in behalf of Preslee. So they called around, and found a green house selling a pine tree that can be replanted in the Spring. It's sitting in a large pot, roots and all. It can't stay inside too long, or it will die. So we get it for a few days. They bought new ornaments, many of them are angels. They called it our angel tree. We decorated it tonight. We love it, and feel its perfect for us this Christmas. It kind of helps us feel like she's a little closer by. And we can't wait to replant it in my parents backyard. Kind of a cool concept right?

(Don't you love the little angel up at the top! We didn't want to trim the tree since it will be replanted. It looks kind of funny, but I love it.)

It's been a great day, I had a doctors appt this morning, its not that I didn't appreciate hearing a little heartbeat before, but now it means the entire world to hear that sound :) The appointment to find out the gender of the baby was made for February 1st. I made Christmas candy with my mom, my parents surprised us with the tree, we decorated it. My sis-in-law Cara sent Preslee's life sketch made into a book with pictures, and my friend Farrah dropped off a slide show with some pics I don't even remember seeing! Though I bawled all the way through it (a good kind of crying of course), I felt it depicted her life perfectly. And Pat finished work till after the Holidays, and spent the night playing ball.

Thank you everyone who has went out of their way to think of us these past few weeks. I know I say this a lot, but I really can't get over how generous complete strangers can be. And thank you to the two incredible people who sent us ornaments, we couldn't wait to place them on the tree!