This is a story about a family's special days. On Sunday, this cute boy was blessed by his father, with his grandfather, great-grandfather, Uncle J---, Bishop W-----, and his family's hometeacher standing in the circle:
It was a beautiful, spiritually sweet blessing.He stayed quiet during the whole blessing and yawned when his daddy held him up afterwards for the congregation's admiration. They "awwwed" obligingly.
His Omay provided the blessing outfit. She couldn't be there, but we were very grateful for her contribution.
On Monday, this was discovered on Nana's kitchen table. Notice the number of candles:
Nana provided some fire, the rest of the family provided some singing, and the cute girl in the blue shirt looked on the proceedings with restrained amusement.
Then, in the space of two deep breaths, she blew out all six of those candles and made it official:
The Eldest turned six years old.
SIX.
She's taller, stronger, wiser than she was before, and she has a loose tooth on the bottom.
Her poor parents are beginning to feel quite old. Was it really six years ago that she was born? Where has the time gone?
(The cliched lament of all parents, but it's very applicable.)
The birthday girl and her sister consented to dress up in their Christmas dresses to be admired by one and all. And to have several pictures taken.
I love their identical expressions in this picture.
The Primary requested a picture of the family. We tried to pawn off our Christmas picture on them, but they wouldn't have it--it was oriented the wrong way. So we took advantage of the children's dressiness and took a picture the right way.
Merry Christmas again, from our family to you, with love.
3 comments:
Have they never heard of cropping? I've never heard of such a picky picture asker before! you all look lovely. Congrats on the blessing!
Envy: that you had so many of your real family there in the circle. Lucky little boy. My kids had no great grandfathers on my side. How amazing. And I had no grandfathers at all, and no grandmothers who understood a baby blessing the way we do it. Kev and I, we were a little free floating family - but you guys get the LDS version - connections all over the place. Those kids are so blessed. And their grandmother brags about them in the most OBNOXIOUS manner -
What a beautiful bunch of pictures! I can hardly believe Annika is SIX! You look great too!
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