Baby Blessing

Jayden's special day!

Jayden Nicholas DeWaal was blessed by his father on August 7, 2011.
We had all the fam come over after, and as always, we took LOTS of pictures!

These are some of my fav! :)

Here's my handsome man!

So the 2 things Nick was dreading would happen that day was 1) Jayden would be screaming during the blessing, and 2) Jayden would have a blow out. Well one did happen and one didn't.

Nick was trying to get Jayden to sleep beforehand, with no luck. Then he spit the pacifier out on the floor right as he was about to bless him. So he got a little worried but luckily Jayden was quiet and content during the blessing.

As far as the other thing though, this was probably the worst blow out yet... and wouldn't you know it, right as we were walking out the door (15 minutes before Sacrament meeting!) Jayden hadn't pooped for like 5 days (probably more information than anyone wants to know...) :) so I was totally expecting it to come and to come bad. We even waited until the last minute to put Jayden in the only white outfit we had for him. And as soon as we did and put him in his carseat, that's when it all came out! What a little stinker! So I was frantically running around trying to find anything kind of white that kind of fit him, while Nick was cleaning him up, which took like 10 minutes. I had bought a blessing outfit for him but I didn't try it on him until that morning... oh and there was no way he was wearing that! I would put him in black before I let him out the door in that thing! He looked ridiculous...like a clown/pope :) Luckily I had just bought a white polo for him for family pictures the week before. So that's what he had on until the blow out. Weird that he didn't have any plain white onesies that fit him at the time- they were all either too small or too big. Finally I found a 9 month white onesie that said 'I Love Mommy' across the top :) He was 11 weeks at the time but he is very long and that was the best I could do! Gotta love the unexpected with babies and kids right?! :) Well, besides that minor setback, it turned out to be a great day!!

With a wiggly toddler and baby, it's almost impossible to get a good shot of all 4 us :)

The proud big sister...

The whole fam dam... all the DeWaals and Tondevolds...

Maddie absolutely adores her baby brother!

I thought this looked like a wedding announcement photo :)

Nathan is in his own little world playin in the dirt...

Wedding announcement #2

Maddie loves to fly with her Uncle Dave

The Hales, which are now a family of 5! (Yes, my sister is pregnant here... 9 months pregnant actually... wish I was that little when I was about to pop!) :)

Oumie & Oupie

The grandparents

Grandma & Papa

Taylor & Shauna- they moved to Arizona the week after. We miss you guys!

So probably my favorite picture of the day!!

Nick and his baby... Erik and his baby! (Yes, I'm talking about that green bottle!) :)

Oh Erik!!

Me and my girl!