Blessing Day

Gracie's blessing day went great. We had lots of family and friends here for it so that always makes a day special. She was such a good baby and didn't fuss during her blessing. Which, to me, is a miracle...she's a bit of a Mommy's girl. She looked awesome in her dress but by the end of the day it was ready to go to the cleaners. Luckily she waited until the evening to start spitting up all over it. I took it to get preserved the next day. I was so worried if I didn't get it cleaned right a way that it would yellow from the spit up. I'm glad it's preserved but at the same time I'm kind of sad that I can't look at the whole thing anymore or show it off.

Here's a picture of the little doll with her Auntie Jill in the background. I think Jill was pretty proud of herself, she was holding Gracie is sacrament meeting when some girls behind us who were visiting the ward for another blessing told her..."oh what a beautiful dress". She smiled at them and said, "yeah, I made it."

So precious

Grandma and Grandpa Bodily. She wore the pearls they gave her for her blessing. I was so afraid her braclet would fall off.

My Mom and Steve.

Grandma and Grandpa.

Blaker Bod and his little girl.

My Baby and I.

And proud proud brother Benjamin. He is so excited that he's getting big enough to hold her on her own. Actually about a month ago now, I was really trying hard to get my chores done and it just didn't seem like anything was going my way. He told me "Mom I can hold Gracie while you do your chores." I was hesitant at first but then decided to let him try. He holds her really good if he's holding her like in the picture above (in his right shoulder). So, I decided I'd try it out. I told him that he could not move and that if he needed to move or needed something else, or if she wsa moving to much that he could yell for me and I would be right there to help. He was amazing and I was able to whip through cleaning my bathrooms. It wasn't bad I could ckeck on them like every minute and it didn't take me that long to get them all done anyways. What a helper!!!!!!!!!!

Fall Festivities

I havent blogged forever...now it's coming back to haunt me because I have a bunch that I want to post. So hopefully over the next few days I can get all caught up because I've got all the pictures I want to post ready to go on my computer now. Well when Gracie was about a month old, we went to the church to let the kids ride their bikes. It was so much fun, plus we kind of made a mess out of the church parking lot because we shook all of the leaves off of the trees. The kids had a blast they ended up playing in the leaves more than they did riding their bikes.

The kids thought their Dad was AWESOME when he would make the leaves fall. And honestly it did look really awesome to me too. They had a blast and kept picking hanfuls up off the ground and throwing them up in the air. I had a little video of it but blogger sucks and it took forever to upload and still didn't go through so these pictures will have to be enough. Well below we will start on Halloween. There's lots of pictures of Miss Grace because it was her first Halloween and I'm obsessed with how cute she is!

Billy would not pose for the camera at all. He didn’t like being in his costume and he
would NOT put on his Captain America mask.
So I never got a really good picture of him in his costume…ohhh the life
of being a Mom to a two year old.

Ben and Brendon were so cute together. They still love to put their costumes on and play. Seriously the best toys I've ever bought have ended up being their halloween costume. Although I don't think that Billy's will get much use. Brendon tried to put it on once cause he really wanted to be Captain America...yeah didn't work out to well for him, I laughed and he was embarrassed and had to take it off. It was a little snug!

He was so proud of himself. He had waited a long time to get to wear this costume. The suspense had been killing him.

I know the shoes drive me crazy! He's like allergic to tieing his shoe laces. He can do it...he just doesn't want to.

Ohhhh....sooo cute.... Sorry didn't realize I didn't get this picture rotated...oh well

She's so precious!

Gal I am obsessed.

Okay back to Captain America. This was the end of the night. Don't you love the chocolate drool he has running down his costume! Yummo.
She was so stinkin cute in her Halloween costume. I had to show of her little lady bug wings.