Paige's Baby Blessing

June 28th was Paige's special day. She was blessed in sacrament meeting by her dad. And I know that Ross gets nervous about these kinds of things, but he did a wonderful job with the blessing. 

The day before, we held a family dinner to celebrate. Not everyone could make it to the blessing and not everyone could make it to the dinner. But people came to one or the other (or both) and hopefully enjoyed celebrating the birth of this beautiful baby girl with us.  

This is the dress that she wore for her blessing. This is a special dress because it was the dress that wore when I was sealed to my parents in the Salt Lake Temple when I was just 3 months old. So this dress holds special meaning for me, and hopefully Paige will think it was pretty special too.

Getting a group picture after sacrament meeting was pretty chaotic, so this is about the best we could get. It might be a little hard to see everyone, but we were very grateful for all those who made the effort to be there with us. We had some of the Leslies, some of the Tuckers, some Miller family and even some of our Turner "family." It turned out that Lesley and her little family were coming out for their summer visit and were able to come to the blessing along with Lesley's parents. It was so fun to have them there.

Here is the group of priesthood brethren who were able to stand in the circle with Ross. We are so blessed to have such honorable men in our family.

The rest of our church meeting was pretty crazy. After pictures, Leah had to go into Primary and give a talk. It was fun to have some of her family members be able to go in and hear her. Then during the third hour, I taught the lesson in Relief Society. It wasn't my usual week to teach, but I was able to make some trades to be able to teach that week while family was there. It was very neat to be able to teach and share my testimony of the gospel with my mom, sister, mother-in-law, grandma, Lesley and Vera (who are like an extra sister and mom to me) there with me. 

After church, I got some pictures of Paige in her blessing outfit along with the blanket my mom crocheted for her. Isn't she a cutie!

And of course Leah had to get in on all the picture taking action. This girl loves her little sister so much! And who can blame her? We are so glad to have this beautiful bundle of joy as part of our little family. We love you Paige June Leslie!!!