Isabella Felice Blessed July 15

Isabella was given a wonderful blessing by Nathan at their ward in Tooele. She is such a cute little girl, and reminds us so much of Laurie when she was little. She was given both physical, mental, and spiritual blessings.

Laurie was also recognized at sacrament meeting as she had just turned 12, earned her Faith in God Award, and was moving on to Young Womens. The Bishop said some really sweet things about her, and that she was truly a "Delight." She has her first temple recommend now, and is ready to go to girls camp soon.  Both she and Brendan are such a good help with the new baby, and really love their little sister.

Both sides of the family were there to support the family.  Chris, Anthony, Andrew, Autumn and their families were there along with Grandma and Grandpa!  On Tammy's side her mom, and sisters Annette, and Barbara were there with their families as well.

Chris's family had to leave right afterwards, to teach in
the new Aaronic Priesthood pilot program.  So Kylee and
Hailey were the only ones who got a picture taken with Isabella.

Some sort of shenanigans going on in the back row!

They served a good healthy sandwich/fruit buffet afterwards and the kids had a grand time playing with cousins, jumping, and seeing who cornered the big screen TV first!

We helped get at lot of the food prep done the night before, so Sunday dinner was relatively calm and easy to set up.  Tammy's mom stayed with them Saturday night as well as us.  We love their new guest room downstairs.  We had fun playing games with her and the kids, as well as working together.   Many hands make light work!  Tammy told me that after everyone left Brendan and Laurie, swept, and mopped and Nathan got everything put away.  So life was back to normal.  That makes me happy to hear.  It is always such a huge help when everyone pitches in to help.


Isabella and Lawsyn get acquainted.

We stayed with Autumn and her family on Friday night, with Nathan on Saturday, and drove to Chris's on Sunday to stay with them.  We enjoyed playing games with the kids and visiting with everyone.  We also had a lot of birthday presents to deliver for Peyton, Laurie, Tammy, Michael, and Hailey.  Gannon and Sage we'd remembered to give earlier.  I'm going to have to get a secretary soon, to keep me organized!


Autumn taught us a new Spazz Uno game which we passed along to both of the other families.  It involved doing hand signals for specific colors whenever an exact match was played.  It was a lot of fun.