A Big Day!

Today was an exciting day because it was Taylor's blessing day and my birthday! I am starting to feel a bit old now with two kids, and closer to being 30 now than 20 years old. boo hoo.
Because we had Stake Conference today, obviously there was no church so we blessed her at the church at 5 p.m. and had a bunch of our friends and family come! It was awesome to see how many people support you when you have an important event or celebration in your family. And we had almost a full chapel with all the people that came! It started out going to be in the Bishop's office, then we moved to the Relief Society room, and then we went to the chapel since there were so many people. Dave of course did a great job with the blessing and we were happy to see family and friends help him out in the circle. After he was done, we went straight back to the gym and ate a bunch of food! It ended up working out perfectly. Originally the plan was to do it during church, but we didn't find out until after my parents booked their flights and my brother and his wife made their plans to drive up that we found out about Stake Conference. It worked out better ths way because we had so many people come there was no way we could have accommodated them in our tiny apartment, so it was convenient to have the church completely to ourselves where we could set up food and tables beforehand and then go straight to eating after the blessing, rather than wait for church to be over and for people to leave church to celebrate, or try cramming into our tiny apartment, it just wouldn't have worked. So...this time around I enjoyed the way it did work out and it worked very well. Thanks to everyone who came and supported our family.

It was very nice having my family in town, since I don't get to see them very often. Ben and his wife along with two kids drove all the way from Green River in the middle of the night to be here! And my parents flew in on Thursday to stay. How nice it has been to hang out with them for a few days and enjoy the sightseeing that Oregon has to offer including Cannon Beach, Lincoln City, Saturday's Market, the Children's Museum, and tomorrow 23rd Ave, Powell's Books, and of course Voodoo Doughnuts! It's been great having them here, and as always the time flies by too quickly. At least it will only be a couple of months until I get to go out to Utah....hopefully.