Monday, December 23, 2013

Blessing Baby Brooke

The Sunday before Christmas we blessed our sweet baby girl. We planned it so that a lot of my family and Aaron's family could be there and we blessed her in Arlington - in the same building I was blessed in. It was a sweet experience and we were so happy to have so many people we loved there. Brooke looked beautiful in her white dress and was perfect and we have every word of her blessing thanks to a sweet sister who short hand recorded it for us. But... we don't have any pictures, that's right, not one. Its horrible, absolutely horrible. I feel just awful about it. But the memory is stored in my head, does that count? My poor third child, not even a picture on her blessing day. It just ended up being a crazier day than we had anticipated. 

We spent the weekend in Dallas with both our families to see everyone before Christmas. It made for a very busy weekend for us splitting time between Arlington and Lewisville (Aaron's brother's house) but it was nice to see so many people and for everyone to meet our Brooke. The kids loved playing with all their cousins and were worn out by the end of the trip. We played and played, opened and exchanged presents, went on walks, went out to eat, strolled Ikea and just stayed up late talking. 

One of our favorite things that we did was go to the Perot Science Museum in Dallas. It was so, so cool. I was very impressed with it and we stayed for hours. The kids really liked it. Here were some of our favorite parts. 










We also had two Christmas miracles on this trip. 

1. My lost black running tights miraculously found in a random parking lot in downtown.
2. Camilla sleeping the entire drive home even though we transitioned her into my parents' house for awhile and then home. This was amazing. 

Then we headed home to get ready for Christmas! 

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