Knox's Blessing

Last Sunday, November 11, we blessed Knox into our church. When we bless babies into our church, they are given a priesthood blessing, and it puts their name on the records of our church. It's not a baptism like other churches do with babies. We baptize our children at age 8. Details about priesthood ordinances and blessings are here.

For Stone and Emerson's blessings, we actually went to El Paso and blessed them in our home ward (Cliff and I grew up in the same ward for our church). But now that we actually have a home and have settled down for a bit (as opposed to being transient students), we decided to bless Knox here in Longview. My mom and Ray, and my Dad, made it out here for the special occasion, and we had a weekend FULL OF FUN. It was SUCH an enjoyable weekend. My kids were absolutely in heaven. We really did have so much fun. We sure missed the Jessups, but they had just come out to see Knox and spend time with our family when he was in the hospital. 

It was a rainy, but special, blessing day.

During the weekend, we went to the park:

Even though my dad could totally rock a green scarf, that is actually my wrap.

CC (my mom) has a silly string war tradition with my kiddos. So we went out to our street, and the war began.

Emerson usually LOVES the wars. She LOVED spraying people, but cried as soon as anyone got her--which is not her norm with these wars. This was the first time that she was really able to push down and spray it all by herself.

Sunday night I pulled my chimes out for my Dad and Emerson. Charisse, my aunt (my dad's sister), gave these chimes to me when I was younger. She always used chimes when she directed the music in the primary at church, and got me a whole set of them. I have used them in primary over the years, and for the first time, I pulled them out for Emerson last weekend. My dad and Emerson had a fun time with them:

It's been so wonderful to have both Cliff's parents and mine come out back to back. We don't get too many visitors out here in East Texas, but we've been spoiled with several visits over the last few months. 

The blessing weekend was perfect! 

And now onto the holidays!