Baby Blessing for Elsie Jean Jensen

Today was Elsie's baby blessing! She looked so sweet and adorable in her beautiful blessing dress -- the same dress that Ellen wore when she was a baby! The blessing was in Jase and Ellen's ward. There were also two more babies being blessed that day (twins -- a boy and a girl). Jase and Ellen had everyone over to their home for a waffle bar after. 

Blessing of Eli Dean Jensen!

Baby Eli was blessed today! Their ward was at 10:30 in Herriman. It was estimated to be 35 minutes away from where we were staying in Highland, but we left early to play it safe. It is a good thing we did because it was snowing and the roads were terrible. The drive was a big nerve wracking and I was worried for Gerilyn and Grandma Jensen who were coming clear from Ogden. They said that their drive was very scary, but thankfully everyone arrived safely without incident (although there was a scary close call with Jared, who was taking Jenna, Jaiden, Adria, and Rella). Josh was with us and we also had my mom and dad drive with us, since we were worried about my dad driving in the snow.

I offered many prayers on the way there and thankfully those prayers were answered! It was a very good sacrament meeting and I really enjoyed all of the talks. Jase gave a beautiful blessing and I was grateful that we could all be there for it. We all went to Jase and Ellen's basement apartment for brunch afterwards. Thankfully their apartment is quite big, because there was a lot of people who came! After the blessing we headed back to Shane and Alicia's and changed our clothes and headed home. The roads were bad part of the way, but not too terrible. The wiper fluid in my car stopped working and so that was frustrating and scary because I felt like we couldn't see well. I am so glad that I live in Southern Utah! I wish all of our family lived there too, ha ha! 

Everett's Baby Blessing

Busy weekend -- moving Jaiden into her apartment at SUU and Everett's baby blessing! We left around 10:00 on Saturday and headed to Cedar City with two cars (my car and Jase's car that was left at our house while they were in Maryland all summer) loaded with Jaiden's college stuff as well as our weekend bags. We moved her things in and then went out to lunch with Jaiden and Emily and took them grocery shopping before continuing on our way. (I will do a separate post about her move-in). 

We all arrived in Pleasant Grove that night and had a nice family dinner prepared by Janika and Brandon. Jase and Ellen were there and so the babies were finally able to officially meet! Jared and Josh drove separately. Rick drove Jase's car to return to him and Jenna and Jaiden were with me. We ate yummy Hawaiian Haystacks at Janika and Brandon's and visited for a while and then I dropped Jenna and Jaiden off to Shane and Alicia's house so that they could attend their cousin, Rella's, 16th birthday party and then spend the night. Rick and I spent the night at Janika and Brandon's along with Jared and Josh. 

Sunday morning was busy with getting ready and finishing up meal preparations. We all met at Janika and Brandon's ward where Brandon gave Everett a beautiful blessing. Afterwards we had a nice meal at the clubhouse of Heather (Brandon's sister) and Adam's townhouse complex. Janika and Brandon had fixed five delicious breakfast casseroles for a nice brunch, along with pancakes and fruit. Those in attendance were Brandon's parents and all of Brandon's siblings, Heather and Adam and their three kids, Carolyn, Andrew and Jess and their girls.  We also had Grandma and Grandpa Westra and Grandma Jensen and Gerilyn. My brother, Chris, came with his wife, Kim. Shane and Alicia came with Adria, Rella, and Calder. It was fun to visit with everyone and the food was delicious! We took some pictures afterwards (although some of the guests had left by then and most of Brandon's family was still inside, and so we didn't catch everyone!) 

We all took naps and then Shane and Alicia met Rick and I at their new house (in the process of being built) so that they could give us a tour. Their house is AMAZING!!! We were out on one of the high balcony areas when the wind blew the wind shut and we were locked out with no way down! Thankfully Shane was able to call his neighbor who came in the front door and rescued us. Otherwise Shane would have been climbing down the scaffolding, ha ha! We are all excited for it to be finished to see how everything turns out! 

Jared had driven home with Jaiden, Josh, and Jenna so that the boys could see her new apartment and so Rick and I had a nice drive with just the two of us!