A Beautiful Day

Rebecca was blessed yesterday. What a special day. We spent most of Saturday cleaning and getting the house ready. We decided it is a good thing to have these events once in a while, because it forces you to deep clean your house. We clean our house lots, but never really deep, so it was TIME!!! Today I'm liking my really clean house, but I'm sure it will be back to normal soon-not too clean and not too dirty either.

Sacrament meeting wasn't until 11:45, which was good because all our family and friends were coming from far away so they didn't have to leave too early. Seth's parents and my parents got here at 11:00 which was perfect. Seth's mom made Rebecca's dress from a pillowcase her grandmother made. The lace was handmade. What a treasure. It is so beautiful and Rebecca looked like a tiny perfect angel. My mom made a headband and I made her a bracelet. Seth's sweet grandma Wistisen (who died 9 months after we got married) made a white afghan for our babies. So our moms helped get Rebecca dressed and we headed over to the church. Seth gave her a wonderful blessing. He blessed her to be sensitive to the whisperings of the spirit and to have a love of the gospel and a desire to live it. She is such a sweet baby. She never made a sound the whole time. And the dress stayed clean--WHEW!! What a relief. I can not say that about some of her clothes! Seth was also called to be the teacher for the 7 year olds. He'll have fun with that. After the blessing, everyone headed over to our house. We didn't have as many people show up as we had thought would come, which was ok, it ended up being really comfortable in our little house. We had tables set up in our living room and we had so much food, it's a good thing we had the extra table in the kitchen with no one sitting at it. It was kind of strange though, usually when the Wistisen's get together, there are a lot of kids. But two of Seth's siblings didn't come and one family's kids were sick and the other family's kids were camping. So it was strange to not see them running all over, but I'm glad no one was running all over at the same time!! Anyway, it was a really good day. We love to have our families around, which does not happen nearly enough.