Max's Big Day

Today was Max's Blessing Day!

We were so excited about today! All day long we (well I guess mostly me) kept telling him, "Max, why won't you go to sleep? Why are you cranky? It's your big day!" Finally, it was time to get ready for church. We were extra excited because Max was wearing the same blessing outfit Austin wore! How cute is that? Max is 7 weeks old now and it's a good thing we didn't wait another day to get him blessed or his outfit would have been too small! It just fit!

We were a little nervous at first because this is the Max we had this morning (I'm sorry but that is such a cute sad face!):



But he ended up just fine! He didn't make a peep during the blessing and was just fine all during church!

Look at those big, dark eyes and dark hair! This is the same little blanket that Makenna used for her blessing. We can't remember exactly, but we think it is a blanket that Austin's grandmother made (is that right, Becky?). It's something like that.

So cute! The little outfit was a white one piece with buttons up the back and a collar and a little vest. Then he had on just plain white socks and cute little white shoes. Much simplier than dressing a little girl for her blessing!

The blessing went really well. We were lucky to have our great friends come for the blessing because we did not have family here. In the circle were Austin, JJ, Nate Judd, Nate Larson, Daniel, Scott, Bishop Hall, and Brother Lowe (the first counselor). I, however, could not hear the blessing because of this person:

(She is wearing a dress my mom made. I LOVE this dress!) She wasn't really crying or anything, she was just talking really, REALLY loudly in my ear the whole time! I did catch the part where Austin said something about, "We bless you to listen to your parents and your big sister." WHAT?!? No way! Don't listen to big sister! She will have you jumping off the roof! : ) But everyone said it was a nice blessing (Austin can't remember what he said to tell me!).

Afterwards everyone gathered at our house for some treats. Our friends the Blooms just moved here today from Idaho and they came as well (how nice is that? They haven't even moved anything in their house yet and they came to our little get together!). Thanks for coming everyone! I do apologize for our tiny little house, but it was still really fun to have everyone over and to have so much support and love from our friends! All in all, a nice day for "Max's Big Day!"