andy's blessing

yesterday anderson clark cotterell became official. spencer gave a beautiful blessing in our ward. it was great to have all of our local family able to join us. all four of our parents, my three living grandparents, dominic & jen (and kids), eden, graydon, clark & susy (and kids), taylor & courtnie, (and kids), and grant. all the melchizedek priesthood holders participated in the circle. if you'd like to know more about the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, click here.

the whole day was wonderful. the weather was great. i planned well on saturday and got everything ready (i even thought of the primary song "saturday is a special day") for the next morning. we planned what time we needed to leave and how much space we needed to save (three rows). sunday morning went really smoothly and we got ready early enough to walk to church.

we weren't planning on leaving church early, but with benny as tired as he was and lots of tortillas waiting to be fried, we left after sunday school. we had a luncheon with our families at my parents house. my dad did his specialty - tacos. they were delicious as usual. lilly ann did her specialty for dessert - brownies (i never knew there were that many kinds of brownies). there were several different kinds. again, thank you to everyone for your help! it was a great time.

with the weather so good we had some tables set up outside and all the kids played outside. eden was great and spent a lot of time outside watching the kids play. i'm grateful i was outside to see benny climb the ladder to the top of the fort all by himself - he used his elbows and knees, but he did it!

unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of the family (my mom got a few after sacrament with those that didn't have to leave right away, so i'll post those later), but we did get some of andy last night before he went to bed. he is such a cutie.

even as late as 9p he's full of smiles! as long as his tummy's full!

we set up a make-shift photo shoot. the lighting wasn't the greatest, but andy did great.

a couple of shots with the parents: