Sunday, February 22, 2009

Christmas 2008....Multiple Family Events

Despite everything going on, we couldn't pass on getting a Christmas Tree. We finally chose a spot in our dining room. The stars added a nice touch. We enjoyed it for the 2 weeks we were home in December.Simon's feet are, well, HUGE. Many times, when he has his shoes on, he runs and isn't use to them being so big, so he trips and falls forward like sliding into homeplate. This time it happened on the sidewalk in front of our house, and we traveled around with a nice scrape on his nose.

Christmas Eve and morning was spent with the Nings. Everyone had Christmas PJ's.

While in Phoenix, we had a couple of special opportunities:
- Christmas with family
- Witness the sealing of Nate and Cari Owen
- Witness the sealing of Baby Annie to the Owen's
- The blessing of Baby Annie.

The sealings and the blessing took place on the same day at the Mesa Temple. The sealing was in the afternoon and we had the best seats in the house. From our vantage point we could see across the altar while baby Annie was held in place by her Grandma Robinson.

Immediately outside, we had everyone gathered for the blessing of Annie. Here we had the Great-Grandmothers.

I don't even know how to caption Sam's expression.

Susie wearing Kelvin's coat standing with her brother Tay (he's currently not dating anyone, that we know of)

We would have thrown some pictures of Grace, but she was shy. Ben however, was just all smiles for the camera.


1 comment:

LilMisfit said...

I love all of these new posts! Thank you, Kelvin! Both of your boys are so adorable. And I can't believe those Christmas-time pictures of Sus... she looks SO thin even though she was only a month out from having a baby! And I love all the temple pictures. Cari and Nate look so happy!