Kenzie's Blessing Day

McKeznie received her baby blessing back in June! She was blessed the same day as her cousin Henry and her second cousin Ryan, how convenient for our families right! Fortunately, everyone's church schedule didn't overlap sacrament meetings so we were all able to attend the others. I thought it was really special to see these beautiful babies receive such rich blessings so early in life. Needless to say I was nervous for McKenzie's blessing because I really didn't want her to cry during it, but she didn't, phew!! She had a big circle of priesthood surrounding her as Josh gave a very touching blessing. Since she could sit up pretty well, Josh just held her in a sitting position. My dad said she sat very still and looked around at them during the blessing. I would put up more pictures of that day but I had my sisters take pictures with their cameras, so when I get those, I will post them as well.
After all the blessings, whoever was able to came back to our house for dinner. My mother-in-law, Jamie did a lot of work preparing the food. It was quite the party with multiple relative from every direction, geologically and genealogically!
Since all of my immediate family was there, we took a nice family picture. It was actually a good experience too! We weren't stressed about what to wear or where to pose, it was just 'click', 'click', done!! Josh's Aunt Darissa was very nice to take them for us with her nice camera.

Here's the nice, collected family picture.

And then, of course, my family in their natural state.

Updates! Foster's arrival and a new cousin!!

Long time no type! I haven't been very active with my blog for a while; life has been very busy with family the last couple months. Joshua's family came out to Utah to see Kristen and Mackay's new baby boy Henry, and stay until both McKenzie and Henry were blessed at the end of June. We have had so much fun!!

Three days and 2,000 miles later...They're here!!! The Foster Family made it to Utah!!

We're so glad they were able to come out and stay long enough to go do stuff together! Kenzie loved having so many people around! She really loved when Emily and Chelsea would come and talk to and make faces at her, it was great to watch her light up to people, especially family. :)




Kenzie's first dip in the pool! Josh took Kenzie out into the water and showed her how to splash. She caught on pretty fast and was promptly soaked from smacking the water repeatedly.
We went with Erin, Brian, and their son Calvin and their cool friends. I'm excited for when Kenzie learns how to crawl and then swim. I plan to start teaching her when she's about 6 months, which is soon!






McKenzie has a cousin!!!

Kristen and Mackay are very proud parents of this little ball of joy! Henry Mackay was born May 26th... He is so awesome!! Not to mention he made me an aunt and Joshua an uncle! :) Here are pictures of the cute cousins and with family.




What's really neat is McKenzie's reaction to Henry, it's as if they were already buds just catching up. We put Henry up to Kenzie and she squealed and laughed and then reached out to grab his arm and hand. It was really really cute. :)