You Must be Married to a Canadian

We recently got several inches of new snow. What should we do for dinner? Why not barbecue? No problem! Just brush off the grill and fire it up. Hey, don't even worry about a coat! I'm not going to complain, it was a delicious meal, and I didn't even have too cook. I love you Jason!

Madeline's Blessing, and other fun things

We blessed Madeline this past Sunday. Our ward has had a real baby boom this fall—there were three baby blessings that day. A lot of my extended family came. It is always inspiring to see so many of the men in your family participating in the priesthood. Jason did a beautiful job. He talked about Madeline’s personality and how she can help others, about how she was saved to be here at the time of the restoration, and about the importance of temples for her and her family.

The dress she was blessed in has quite a history. I was blessed in it, along with all the girl cousins on my mom's side. Now all the daughters of my cousins but one has been blessed in it too.

We also got some more professional looking pics of her in her blessing dress. I'll post those later.

Here are some pictures of the big day. Our growing family of 4...

My family, I think Matt must be standing on something. He only wishes he was taller than Michael...

And here is the whole crew.

Since she wasn't in too smiley of a mood when we got those other pictures, I thought I'd include a few more recent pictures of her too. She really is such a happy, smiley baby. She is starting to carry on tons of "conversations" too. I think I'm in love.