Lydie's Blessing

We blessed our little Lydie girl in November.

 We decided to cut some stress out of our lives and bless Lydie in our ward here at home, even though we knew we were going to Utah for Christmas the next month. My parents were in town for Thanksgiving, so we had her blessed while they were visiting.
Going back through all of these photos is making me realize the I have really been suffering from memory loss due to fatigue. I am scraping my mind for details here! I am realizing just how far out of that survival mode I had come having a nearly five year old as my youngest before the baby. It is worth the fatigue and air headed tendencies. Oh the joys of the newborn days!

Del gave Lydie such a sweet, loving blessing. She was a good girl for the blessing, even though Del told me later the few times she fussed did make him panic that she was going to lose it in the middle of the blessing. I hope that all of the things that Del blessed her to be strengthened with in this life come to fruition! She is such a precious little soul!

Lydie was MAD at me for trying to get her dressed up and have her picture taken. So I don't have many with details of her dress. She HATED the bonnet that came with the dress, and she was screaming in all the pictures I took while she was wearing it. So we ditched that and just went with a less offensive headband. She was very appreciative.

Our new family of seven! That seems like a lot of people. It is also nuts that Will appears to be taller than Wally in this picture. Those two are in some kind of race to see who is taller. I think it changes every month.

It was so good to have my Mom and Dad! We had a lot of fun during their visit, I felt comfortable leaving Lydie to attend the temple while they were here, and our timing was good because my Mom was back home before my Grandmas heath took a sever decline. My amazing, sweet Grandma passed away while we were home for Christmas. I will get a post updating that up soon.

It was nice to have at least one family member stand in the circle with Del for the blessing.

Our fantastic neighbors, the Arnold family, came for the blessing and Sacrament meeting. They are really the greatest family. They are so open and kind to our children, and we are just so grateful to know them! It was so nice of them to take time on their Sunday to attend!

We are so glad to have Lydie blessed and enjoy that milestone in her little life.