Blessing Day

The special girl of the day

Our little eternal family

On April 8, 2012 we blessed our Gracelyn Michelle Brower. It was a beautiful spring day and just so happened it was also Easter Sunday. We were lucky enough to celebrate with many family and friends. Matt gave her a beautiful blessing. Both our families in their entirety were there as well as Grandma Harris, Aunt Jeanette, Kelly/Julie, Jim & Tamara(Issac,Jude), Braydon Martin, and Grandma/Grandpa Edstrom. We learned from Hallie's blessing to do pictures before and Im so glad we did. My mom made Gracie's dress and Kim made her headband that was extra special because it was made out of Grandma Norr's pearls and cloth. Although we can't name all of our girls after her I was very touched that Gracie had a piece of her with her on her special day. In fact we actually picked the pattern and material based on the headband.
Our sweet girls

With her mommy

With her daddy

Grandma Sheryl(made the dress) and papa


Nate with one of his favorite nieces

Maddie and Nate with the girls

The bishopric, Daddy, Papa, Uncle Kelly, Ez, Kyle, Tyler M., Randy Hatch, Grandpa Brower, Grandpa Edstrom, Aaron and Nick were the priesthood that helped give you a name and a blessing. Daddy talked about loving eduacation and using your mind to learn all you could, being tolerant and nonjudgemental of the people around you, to someday find a worthy young man to take you to the temple, as well as having patience with yourself and others. It was a beautiful blessing Matt did an awesome job.
Afterwards we were able to do the luncheon at Wadman so we would have plenty of space(for future reference this was an amazing idea) I didn't have to clean my house before and after, there was plenty of space, the kids had room to run, and I didn't have to sanitize my house with bleach after everyone left...yeah I'm OCD. We were so blessed to have everyone there to celebrate Gracie's special day.