babies, baptisms, birthdays and blesssings

I guess it started at the end of April, it began with my niece Katie's 4th birthday, then that Saturday May 3rd was Bekah's birthday and baptism. I was really sad I couldn't be there for her special day but I sent a gift to remind her how special she is to us and to her Heavenly Father. It is hard having family so far away. I always thought that all my family would always be in Washington but now Eric's brother and family are in New York, two of my sisters and their families are in Utah and my brother and his wife and another of my sisters are all in Idaho.

(Side note: after teaching RS on Sunday and reading the writings of Joseph Smith I have decided once again that I was born in the wrong era, because my writing, runon sentences and extremely compound sentences were extremely common back then! Once again I knew it!)

Back to it though, so I was lucky though to have gotten an extremely cheap ticket to fly to Utah on Saturday, May 3rd so that I could be there for my sweet neice Averi's blessing on the 4th. It was wonderful to finally meet her and her mother had her dressed up just as beautiful as she always looks. It was nice to get away and Sean gave Averi a beautiful blessing.

And then we got great news today! Cassie, who is due on October 10th found out today that she is having another boy! She does great with the boys and this one will have wonderful big brothers. I was suprised when I visited how much Eli has grown. He looked so big and grown up!