Happy Birthday to me....

Sunday was the greatest birthday ever! Benjamin was blessed and it was amazing. We had so many family and friends there and we are so thankful to them for their love and support! Benjamin was wearing a beautiful outfit made by Josh's mother. It even had an embroidered "B" on it for Benjamin. His blanket also had his full name and blessing date emboidered on it...it is so beautiful. Thanks so much mom! Josh did such a wonderful job with blessing Benjamin and I'm so grateful to him for his worthiness and that he is in tune with the Spirit. There were many tears of joy shed that day. The reason why we did it on the 9th was because our stake conference was the first Sunday, and this was a weekend that Josh's parents could make it. We had regular speakers in sacrament meeting, and our stake president was there as well. He was asked to speak last, but he had Josh get up and bear his testimony. President Barrington, our stake president, was inspired for more reasons than one. Josh's family does not get to see him often, let alone hear him speak in church. Josh's parents and his nephew were able to hear his testimony. It was an amazing testimony, and once again I am grateful that he is in tune with the Spirit.

The only down side to this whole weekend was that Sir Benjamin was very spoiled with the numerous amounts of people, and he was held a lot. Now, that's not a bad thing, but he usually gets put in his crib and he falls asleep on his own. But with all the people here this weekend, he would fall asleep in people's arms and would just get held. So today his mother is battling with him because he won't go to sleep unless he's held. I pray that we can break this habit soon. I guess it's been especially hard today because I have been sick...so much for that flu shot! Oh well, you do what you must, right?

Again, thank you to all of our family and friends for your love and support. We are so richly blessed!