El Paso Part IV: Emerson's Blessing!

When we heard that Tanner and his cute family were going to be in El Paso the week of Cliff's spring break, we knew we had to head over for some quality family time. We decided to delay Emerson's blessing a few weeks, and do it in El Paso so that our families could be a part of the special day. Then, Jordan and his cute family decided to head over for the occasion, and then my cousin and his wife, Mark and Jacki, decided to head over last minute from AZ. AND, my cute cousin, Drey, came with my mom. In our church, a baby blessing is basically a father's blessing, and it makes the baby a member of record in the church. It's a special occasion, and it happened to be on my 25th birthday!

The morning actually started off a bit stressful. It was the first Sunday since we have had two kids that we were actually ready for church EARLY! ...that was until we couldn't find the keys to the car, which happened to have Emerson's white bloomers and white bow. After frantically searching for some time, we saw them on the front seat of the car (oops!). Thus, I had to make due with what we had in her suit case, and make a cream bow and bloomers do justice. We barely made it on time to church after the fiasco (and perhaps a few tears out of frustration on my end). In the end, it turned out to be a perfect day. AND, in addition to all my family being there, my BFF, Shannon, and her sweet mom, came to church for the special day.

Her blessing dress is kind of special. It was actually a dress my mom's cousin made for me the night I was born. I found it in a box, just before Emerson was born, and decided I wanted her to wear it on her blessing day.

AND, notice her pink toe nails! I did take the polish off that night so that her cute little toes/toe nails could breath. I just couldn't resist on a special day. :) I turned to Shannon in church, and said, "Can you believe I painted her toe nails??" ...to which she replied, "YES!!"

My side of the family!

Below: Here is the bow that was locked in the car!


Below: My ladies! Rachel (sis-in-law [jord's]), Jacki (cousin-in-law), Me, Charee (sis-in-law [tan's]). I love these girls!!
Below: Stone and Chloe were jumping off this table over and over again to Clay, AKA Uncle Bubba.

Above: My cousin, Drey.
Below: It was my 25th birthday that day, Rachel's 25th was a few days before, and Tanner's 30th is this Sunday. SO, we got to blow out some birthday candles together.

Below: Money shot of the trip! While we were blowing out the candles, my stinker of a 2-year-old was in the Jessup's side courtyard doing THIS:


What the heck?! He's gone outside before (at the park, and on the side of the road on road trips)....but this?! What the heck? I love Chloe's face in the first picture. It's like she knows he'd doing something naughty. Ooooh, this is just the start, huh??