Jence's Baby blessing

Jence received his name and a blessing on Sunday December 4th 2011. He was named Jence Stevens Mower, and Dan gave him a beautiful blessing. I love baby blessings, and I do a lot of planning and anticipation leading up to it. I have to shop around to find a baby blessing outfit (I found Jence's online). And then there's the after church dinner to be planned. And this year I spent a lot of time cleaning, setting up Christmas decorations, and making sure the kids had coordinated Sunday clothes for pictures. Because of the crazy wind storm all of my preparations seemed less important, but the blessing it's self went just fine, and that's what really matters. Dan came home from his early church meetings about thirty minutes before sacrament meeting was about to start and told me that the church block had been canceled, and everyone was to work on getting the neighborhood cleaned up, and prepare themselves for the next big wind storm that was coming in that night. They were planning on holding a shortened sacrament meeting, so we decided to still bless the baby. But what about the dinner afterwards, the pictures, the families, and the 20 lbs turkey that was already roasting in the oven! We decided to still do the dinner, It felt a little strange to be having a party while all of the ward members including Dan, and a lot of his brothers were cleaning up our fallen trees, and debris. We didn't get many pictures, and I don't think Dan even came in for a plate of food. He was busy trying to secure a pine tree that looked like it might fall on our deck. But in spite of it all Jence still got lots of attention, and we were able to still enjoy the day. Sometimes things don't end up living up to our expectations. I guess this is a lesson for me, I need to learn to relax, and not worry about how things are "suppose" to be, and learn to just "roll with the punches". We love you Jence, you have already brought so much joy, and happiness to our family. We are so thrilled that you are a member of our little family. It's fun to see our family grow.

We got a family photo with dan the following night. I asked Dan's Mom if she'd come and take our families picture, and I got Jence back into his blessing outfit, and the kids back into their christmas church clothes. I was really happy that we finally have an up-to date family picture.