Blessing Weekend

We had an awesome weekend this past weekend.  Both of our parents were able to come up and Matt's little sister Annie as well!  They all rode up together Friday and left Monday morning.  It was definitely a short visit, but SO fun.  My parents stayed with our friends who live right by us, so that was nice, but we pretty much had a whole lot of people in our apartment all day!  

We had quite a few photo shoots for little Miss Mylee Mae.  I could post about 1000 pictures, but I tried to only choose a few :)

Grandpa Clair with Mylee

Colton being Colton

My beautiful mom with Mylee in the dress she made for her :)

Grandma Sari (the photographer) and Colty

I feel so lucky to have the great parents that we have.  First of all, Matt's parents were planning on driving up all along when we blessed Mylee.  My dad has been without a job for 7 months and they didn't think they would be able to spend the money to come up here.  My mom was already here, but they wanted more than anything to attend her blessing.  Matt's parents were willing to allow them to ride up with them and take some of their time spending with the kids to let my parents have the opportunity to come up as well.  How wonderful for us :)  It was such a treat to have them be able to come and meet Mylee and to have them all here at once.  Colton could not get enough of his "GA-GA'S"  He was absolutely in heaven.  He played and played and Mylee got held for 2 days straight which is a treat for her :)  All in all, it was a great weekend and we are so thankful for their willingness to drive all the way up here to see us!!  

Matt did a wonderful job with the blessing and Mylee opened her eyes up the whole time to listen to him

While my mom was here when Mylee was first born, I had told her of this image I had of a perfect blessing dress.  When I was blessed, I had a small, white, crocheted dress. My mom thought she still had it, but didn't.  We looked online and found some beautiful crocheted dresses which were all over $70.  My aunt found my cousins and sent it up to me, and that is what I was planning on Mylee wearing.  A few days after my mom got home and found out she would be coming back up to visit, she found a pattern for a crocheted white dress, and spent hours and hours making it.  I don't think I could have imagined a more perfect dress in my mind.  I am so glad I have such a talented mom, because look at how beautiful she made my little baby girl look on her blessing day :)

My dad with his 2 grandkids :)  

Living away from family is hard, and seeing them, and seeing Colton's heart break when they leave makes me wish we lived closer.  However, we have met some incredible friends living up here and it makes it that much better when we do get to be with family :)  Thanks for coming!!