Ethan's Blessing

This Labor Day weekend Bryan and I were able to drive to Utah to be part of Ethan's blessing. Whew, we have sure made a lot more trips to Utah this summer than last! Ella had just had her 3rd birthday so we were able to celebrate with her on Saturday as well. It was a very busy weekend filled with friends and family!

I feel like I am always taking pictures of other things so I wanted to get something of the two of us. Bryan and I still love each other a year and four months later! :)

We decided to go to the Treehouse Children's Museum in Ogden. On the way there I helped Ella put together this fabulous birthday crown. What a cute smile she has!

The museum has tons of different sections from music to politics, even. Check out my very presidential husband! Watch out, Obama!

Ella loved running to all the different places. The museum was surprisingly empty this day so she mostly had free reign of the place. Bryan and I thought it was a pretty awesome place too!

We all attempted to the pull the sword from the stone but I suppose none of us were meant to be king.

Ride 'em cowgirl! She loved it when we'd rock the horse back and forth really fast like she was really riding a galloping horse!

Bryan thought he was giving me antlers here but it looks more like jazz hands to me... This ended our fun at the museum. We then stopped at Super Target (we don't have any here in Boise, unfortunately!) and ate dinner at Taggart's. I was full for the rest of the night and what felt like in to the next day!

We got up incredibly early the next day and drove down to Lehi for Ethan's blessing. It was a great experience and a beautiful blessing.

Ella decided in the middle of the family festivities that she really wanted me to take a picture of her wearing her apron that I made her. Glad she liked it!

Ethan is such a sweet little baby. I got to hold him for a very long time and it was really nice.

Uncle Bryan held him a little as well! He started squirming at one point and Bryan, unsure of what was going on, handed him back to me. I thought this was just kind of funny.

We spent the entire day there at Shelley's and it was a lot of fun. We played games and laughed a lot. I am so lucky that I married into a family that I feel I can be entirely myself with and whose company I truly enjoy.

The next day we had to leave to return to Boise but not before meeting up with the Pfaffs and Jasps for lunch at Kneaders in City Creek Center. What an awesome place!

We brought Callie as well and left her at Bryan's moms. She mostly stayed in the basement with us and had free reign of that, which I think she enjoyed. We tried to have her come upstairs a few times to socialize with the dogs but she was pretty wary of them. Hopefully she will eventually be able to be friends with them. You can kind of tell here that Callie is ready to escape should Guinevere try anything but Gwen is just being a happy dog. She was the most interested in Callie of the two dogs.

Well, this September is going to be a very busy month for us! We'll be in Utah again for Bryan to do recruiting at BYU for Clearwater Analytics. It will be crazy to be back there! Then we will go to Maryland and be a part of Sylvie and Jack's blessings. I'm excited to meet those two!

For now, I think its nice to be back home in Boise. We sure do love living here.