Baby Blessing Weekend

We had the most crazy weekend of our lives for Dallen's baby blessing. We had our friends Nick and Mindy, their 2 kids, Nick's parents and his niece and nephew in town, plus my whole family minus Jess and Jordan, and then Travis' family- 23 people total. It was also our 5th year anniversary which we celebrated on an ATV ride for the first time since we've lived here. It was also Dallen's first ATV ride which he experienced on Nick & Mindy's RZR next to their 8 month old baby, Savannah. He did great and it was sooo nice to get up in the hills on the back of our new ATV with Travis.

The next day we decided to do a BBQ up in the mountains at Puffer Lake. We rode the ATV's, fished, had a camp fire and just enjoyed being outside. Joy caught her first fish and we had a scare with an ATV tip over, but thankfully everyone was ok and minimal damage was done. It was nice being out of the house and feeling like we were camping for the evening.

On Sunday Travis did a beautiful job blessing Dallen. My dad, Joseph and David Wells stood in the circle. It was a small, intimate, beautiful blessing. It was also fast and testimony meeting so I bore my testimony about being a mother and the importance of families. It was so wonderful being able to express my feelings for my mom and mother-in-law and family with all of them there.

That afternoon we did a brunch with everyone; it seemed like it'd be super easy making pancakes, eggs, and bacon. We planned to do pancakes on an electric griddle, bacon on a bbq, and eggs on the stove that way people could help cook and we wouldn't be on top of each other in my small kitchen. Well, we started a huge grease fire on the bbq which melted the tube to the propane tank and had to be put out with a fire extinguisher! Yeah, we almost had a huge explosion had the flames got closer to the tank- yikes! So brunch just got crazier and crazier with so many people here. Travis did a great job entertaining the kids with tubing down the creek, hikes through the pasture, pony rides, crayfish hunting, playing with our neighbors puppies and sandbox, etc. My niece Brighton got a taste of small town life and fell in a pile of cow manure on their hike; she wasn't too happy about that. :) It was quite the weekend, but it was so good to have all our family and close friends share in Dallen's baby blessing.