The blessing was beautiful. 14 men standing in the circle around her as she was blessed with health, happiness, and a wonderful companion some day. Abram said she was smiling and looking straight at him the entire time. She was still staring at him after he finished and he was coming back to the bench. She is official in the records of the church now and has her first big ordinance complete!
After the meeting was over, the Joslin and Benitez families took off and went back to my parents' house for some brunch. It was so delicious! We took some pictures there while some of the food warmed up. Here she is with her best friend and cousin, Spencer.
We took a four generation picture today, also. My grandpa, my mom, me and Annette.
We were so excited to share this special day with our families. It is so fun to see how our entire families get along with each other! We missed a couple of our brothers and their wives and four nephews though.
One last thought: Annie has been working really hard over the last 10 days to master thumb sucking ever since the first time she figured how to do it. The other night she was getting sleepy but wasn't going down so I just set her on the couch between me and Abram. A couple minutes later, this is what she looked like:
Our continuing steps to getting her to pacify herself while sleeping are working! She'll be able to put herself back to sleep on her own before we know it!
