Today was a big day for our family. It is the first time that we were able to combine special ordinances for the kids. We had originally talked about waiting on the baby blessing until closer to when Wendy would be having her baby, so that mom and dad could come up for the baby blessing and then travel just a little further to see Wendy’s baby. But when we realized that Ethan is turning 12 and that means he would be receiving the priesthood, and that that would be something the grandparents might want to be here for, we decided to plan the baby blessing around Ethan’s birthday and ordination.
My parents drove up from California, and Laurel and Roine brought their family and Granny out for the occasion. This is also the first week since Seth was born that he and I have gone to church. Kyle gave Seth his blessing during sacrament meeting. Thankfully Seth slept and was nice and quiet during the blessing. During the third hour of church, Kyle and Dad left priesthood after opening exercises to collect us for the ordination. I went to collect the rest of our kiddos so they could be there too. I thought it would be nice for them to be there to see Ethan be ordained, so that they have his example to look up to.
After church we came home and had a late lunch/early dinner. We had sandwich rolls and lunch meats and cheeses so everyone could assemble their own sandwiches. We had chips and stuff for making Italian sodas. Laurel brought out frog eye salad, and everything was good. We also had cake and ice cream and we just hung out.
The girls decided they were going to attack Alex, and he was a good sport about it.
When the girls were tired of climbing all over him, they decided to do his hair instead.
Laurel and Roine and their family took Granny and left early, because they had a meeting to get to. Then Kyle took Ethan to his very first Stake Priesthood meeting. 🙂
Liesl wasn’t able to come out this weekend so I didn’t get any posed pictures of the family or of Kyle and I and the boys. In fact I didn’t take pictures of Ethan at all. I did pose Seth to take pictures of him in his blessing suit though.
