Celebrating Tace's 1st Birthday

Dear Tace,

Happy Birthday sweet boy!  I can't believe your first birthday is already here.  I wish you could be here to celebrate with us. You are constantly in our thoughts and we want you to know how much we love and adore you.  Your dad and I can't wait until the day when we can be reunited with you once again.  

As your birthday has approached your dad and I have been thinking about what things we would like to do to celebrate you.  These are a few of the ideas we came up with:

First, we went to the temple the morning of your birthday.  This is one of our favorite places to be.  It is within the walls of the temple that we can feel you the closest.  I love that we live so close to so many temples.  It is great to be able to go as often as we want and have the opportunity to serve others and to feel your presence close.

Second, we donated some blankets and remembrance boxes to the hospital.  Tace, when you were born it meant more than anything to your dad and I to have a little outfit to dress you in, a tiny blanket to wrap you in, and a remembrance box to put your things in.  These items are now some of our most prized and valuable possessions.  All of these items had been donated to the hospital.  Now, it is our turn to give back.  We want to donate items to the hospital each year on your birthday so that other couples faced with similar trials will have something to wrap their precious angels in.  

And lastly, we did a balloon release for you at the cemetery.

Tace, we love you with all our hearts!  I hope you can feel all the love that we are sending your way, this week especially.  We wish we could have you here, but we know that you have a great work to do on the other side of the veil.  Happy birthday sweet boy.  We are one year closer to holding you once more!

With all the love I possess,
Mommy

P.S.  Your Grandpa Brent, Grandma Darcy, and Aunt Halli got these flowers for you.  White roses have become your flower (from the story shared in the post titled "5 Months").  This was a beautiful arrangement of little white roses.

Grandma Terri went down and decorated your headstone with this spray of flowers we made for you last winter and Grandpa Rick bought you the little back-hoe and dump truck.  He said that he thinks about you all the time, especially when he is driving the back-hoe or track-hoe at the ranch.  He wanted to get you a couple little toys so that you would have something to play with.  I thought that was so cute.  Your grandpa is one of the toughest men I know, but he has a soft spot for each of his grandkids.  It is so sweet to see how tender he can be.

Once again, we all love you SO much and we hope you had a wonderful birthday!