This last weekend my sisters, mom, and I went to the beach for our annual sister's weekend. We were gone Thursday and Friday nights. We rented a little house in Lincoln City and it was perfect for us. Thanks to Ericka for taking the initiative to do the planning as usual. We had a blast. I think we made use of every minute we were there. We watched girly movies and highlighted each other's hair. We ate junk food and took turns preparing the meals which were very healthy to offset our not so healthy snacks. We talked and talked and didn't get much sleep. On Friday we went on a hike in the mountains, but mostly we shopped and shopped like you can only do when you have no husbands or children. Paige was the only baby along for the ride and she did pretty well. She spent most of the time in the front pack. I think it'll take me a week to recover from the lack of sleep, but I wouldn't have missed it. The only downside to the trip was that Emily and Laura weren't there. We hope to have them next time.
Then we came home and the next day was Paige's baby blessing. I
had to feed her just before the meeting and of course she chose that moment to get her diaper overflowing. Luckily I caught it before it got on her dress but I had to rush to clean her up in time for the meeting to start. Then when Clint went to do the blessing she starting screaming and didn't quit until the blessing was over. I had left the binky in the mother's lounge on accident and she just wanted to go to sleep, poor thing. Ah well, we made it. I was so happy to see all my family there--or at least all of us that are here in Oregon. Afterward we went to mom and dad's to eat and hang out. We are getting to be such a big group!
We plan to get some family pictures taken this weekend. I'll be sure to post them when I get them back.
e's our new family picture. We also did some individual pictures of Paige in her blessing dress. She did such a great job posing. I was so grateful to have Clint there to help me keep everyone where they needed to be. It also helped that we had the first appointment in the morning. We didn't have to wait around as much. And we had a great p
erson doing the pictures. She was so patient with the kids and wasn't in their face so much as to intimidate them. I have to thank Clint for sacrificing his Saturday to do this for me. It was part of my Mother's day gift to get this done. I remember going to get family pictures done as a family for mother's day a lot when we were kids, so I guess I am keeping up the tradition.
