“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.” Hinckley

On May 29th Lydia was blessed by her Daddy.

Her cousin Stella was also blessed by her Daddy, my Brother.

It was a beautiful day filled with wonderful people.

I love my little brother and his amazing wife Brittany. They are so precious to me. We were so glad they could share a special day with us.

Daddy gave Lydia a beautiful blessing. She was blessed to have a strong relationship with her father in heaven. To always know that she is his daughter and to strive to keep that relationship strong through a desire to speak with him in prayer and to feast on the scriptures and his word. She was blessed to have a desire to seek out her ancestors and to help her family unit return back to Father in Heaven someday. She was blessed with Charity, to love and serve those around her as Christ did.

In the circle she had her Father, Grandpas, Uncles, and 2 great Uncles.

I just love this picture.

When we found out Lydia was a girl I set out to crochet her a blessing dress.

I had a pattern I had used for Hannah that was nice, but I wanted something different. I was having a hard time finding anything I liked in a 0-3 month size.

After a while I found a pattern that I loved but it was a 6 month size. I figured if it was too huge I could adjust it if need be, but felt pretty confident that it would be fine.

Man am I glad I went with that pattern. It fit our chubby little princess perfectly.

I love it when babies are so asleep that their lip tucks in like this.

After church we had everyone over to our new place for lunch.

We had only slept there 3 nights before all of this so things were pretty bare, but we enough room for everyone and a great time was had by all. Including babies, we had 74 loved ones there with us.