Blessing Day!

November 5, 2006: Eleanor Elizabeth gets a name and a blessing! It was such a wonderful day. Ellie managed not to stain her dress (whew) and didn't even cry during the blessing. Good job, QE2. Bus, Jan, Mike, Sarah, Marc, Aunt Nan and Uncle Herb all came.
With Nan, Taylor, Andrew, Dani, Jared, and the twins, we took up the entire third row. Keith, Jared and Tony Strike stood in the circle with Rob. The blessing was just beautiful, of course. And then we took lots of pictures.


We missed you all and wish you could have been here! After church, we had the Lesan crew over for dinner - pasta and salad. For those of you who write down meals in your journals, I cooked tomato sauce from the Ultimate Italian cookbook and chicken alfredo sauce from the Essential Mormon Cookbook. For dessert, I made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies from the Montgomery Ward Relief Society Cookbook, Katie Strike's recipe. Those last two choices seemed appropriate cookbooks to use on a Sunday - sort of like how we only listen to Sunday music on Sundays? We only cook from Mormon cookbooks on Sundays? Well, anyway, it was all quite delicious. Now it's almost 10:00 p.m. and we are ready to turn in (see Ellie and Rob in pajamas).
Hopefully Ellie agrees!