We chose to bless Ree over General Conference weekend. We did that with Casen’s blessing and I love that it’s a gathering of just our closest friends and family.
When people make the effort to come all the way down here, we make the effort to show them a good time. In between Conference sessions on Saturday, we drove down to Canyonlands for a little sightseeing. First stop was Newspaper Rock.
This landmark never gets old for me. With so many petroglyphs to look at, it’s fun to talk, speculate and make up stories about what the people of the land over 2,000 years ago. We picked out petroglyphs we thought represented the Tree of Life from the Book of Mormon, wagon wheels of the pioneers and Santa Claus with his reindeer.
Kyle always makes painful faces when he has his picture taken. He’s such a clown.
Next stop: Hamburger rock for a picnic. The weather was heavenly and our picnic lunch was heavenly!
The blessing was wonderful. We both have such supportive and loving family. We came back to the house for a feast of ham, salads, funeral resurrection potatoes (cleverly renamed by Kyle at our Easter dinner the week before) and cookies. The weather was good enough most everyone ate outside on the deck and at the picnic table – it was glorious!
Mia and Nixon challenged Kyle to a pushup war. Ree met uncle Cody for the first time and was impressed by how awesome he is.
Auri’s fist pump! Casen has started to be interested in doting on Auri. He asks to hold her and pats her head and says nice words to her. She just looks at him and coos. She’s starting to work on her smiles. I love that she’s making eye contact and smiling at us. We didn’t get that with Casen at all until about 5 months old because of THIS.
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It all looks so fun. I wish we could have come but I'm especially grateful you had Grandma and Grandpa (great)there.
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