Our Christmas Tree

We were the recipients of a Christmas service yesterday! When I was at my good friend Annette's house, I commented on how much I liked how she decorated her tree and she volunteered to help me decorate mine! She took me to Tai Pan to get ideas and "made" me buy a 50 yard roll of ribbon to help decorate my tree. :) (I said I'd buy it if she'd help me decorate my tree with it!) We saw that some of the trees were decorated with sayings in them. She is my friend that makes vinyl and her husband makes the wooden frames, etc. So. . .the next day, I joined her to help design and make some saying for my tree. Her VERY kind husband froze his fingers to the bone that night making the wooden boards for the sayings. The next day she and her children came over and helped me put it all together. She also donated some beautiful complimentary ribbons to add! We were all pretty excited with how nice it turned out--definitely the best decorated tree I've ever had!

Isn't it cute? I wish I had taken a before picture. . .the tree had a lot of potential but started out rough (even being so unstable at first that it fell over on top of poor Isaiah). After Lou stabilized it again and Dad trimmed it, put the angel on top and stabilized it even more with a clever arrangement of string and weights, it looked much better. This tree should feel loved--it sure had a lot of help getting pretty! (I mentioned in an earlier blog, but I should mention here that Dad cut this tree for us at Sellar Creek and we hooked it on top of our van and brought it back to Utah!)

To top off a fun morning of Christmas spirit, she bought us a pizza lunch and we watched the Mr. Bean Christmas episode. What a fun morning we had with Annette and her family! Thank you so much for spreading the Christmas cheer to our family! :)