Blessed

We blessed our baby girl a few weeks ago...

It. Was. Wonderful.

It was a perfect day in every way.

Sophie was so beautiful, so sweet, so happy. It was so fun getting her dressed and primped for her big day. I just kept thinking how flawless she was and how happy I was. I was also thinking about my Mom and how she probably felt the EXACT same way when she got me ready for my big day.

I loved that I was able to bless her in the dress my Momma made for me when I was blessed. That dress has been hanging in a huge, beautiful shadow box at my parents house for as long as they have been there. I looked at it for so many years but never knew how beautiful it was and how special it was until it was my turn to use it for my little one.

Jon gave her a perfect blessing, and even a surprise middle name of Ruth.

Jon and I had talked about giving her the middle name of Ruth after Jon's two grandmothers who both have that name. But we didn't give it to her when she was born so we weren't sure if we wanted to change her name. I didn't even know if we were going to do it or not when Jon blessed her with that name. It was really quite a nice surprise. I never got to know Jon's grandma Boswell, but I know she was a great lady. I have however been very blessed to know his Grandma Layne very well. She is one of the cheeriest, sweetest, happiest ladies I have ever met. I adore her. She loved and accepted me from the minute I met her when I was just dating Jon. She made me feel so welcome and I have loved her ever since. So I am very happy to have my baby girl carry on that name and hopefully that cheerful attitude.

One of my favorite parts of the day was after she was blessed, Jon sat down and let me hold her, and she would not even look at me. Her eyes were locked on her Daddy, no matter what I did, she was just enamored with him which is so out of character for her. I am always her favorite and she is always looking for me (I know it's just cuz I have the food, but still). It was the sweetest thing. She loves her Daddy and knew what he had just done for her and that was her way of letting him know.

We were so happy to have a lot of family and friends there for Sophie's day. I think Ollie might have been the happiest actually because he had pretty much every favorite person on earth in the same room with him. He had so much fun playing with his Nanas, Papa's, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.


And of course the little star of the day had plenty of lovin' from all of her faves as well.




Perfect Day.

Thanks so much to everyone who came. We love you all!