Charlottes Blessing Day

It was actually Lily and Charlotte's

Blessing day!

Lily is Zoe's (Chris's sister) baby girl born October 23. Zoe wanted Lily to be blessed as well, so we decided to do it all together. Great idea! Zoe came with Alex and Sebastian. Granny came with her new adopted doggy. Then Paul came with the kids. We had a good time!
If I keep doing all these parties at my house, I'd love to have a bigger kitchen!!

Some of the fun stuff the kids did with their cousins were: writing books, playing with Granny's new dog, drawing, video games, Legos, riding bikes, barbies, playing on the swings and slide, etc. fun stuff!!

The blessing went well. Chris got a hold of the spirit and really did a wonderful job on both babies blessings. He was surprisingly nervous this time. I think it's because he just knows a lot more people this time in our ward. He did Lily Kathleen Alexandra Lheron's blessing first, then Charlotte Alya Lheron's blessing. A lot of the ward thought we had changed Charlotte's name at the last minute. Or I made Chis do the blessing over to do Charlotte's! HAHA! I heard some great stories of delusional fathers changing the babies names up there and not telling their wives they wanted a different name for their baby until they were listening to their husbands bless the baby. hahah! Chris is much to smart for that. thanks honey!

The dress
The dress worked out great. It got my fashion design juices flowing. We named Charlotte out of inspiration of Charlotte Bronte, on of the most amazing authors of all time. Charlotte Bronte lived in the early 19th century and that just so happens to be one of my favorite eras for fashion. (Some of you know, but I majored in Fashion Design and I really loved historical fashion.) So, that being my inspiration, I decided to design a dress for my little Charlotte. I didnt have time or money to go out and buy anything new, but I did have lots of sentimental remnants of things at home. I always have white cotton batiste, then there was lace from Isabel's baptism dress, tulle is well tulle, buttons from Gma Adeline's sewing leftovers, and satin pipping from my wedding dress. I think this may be my favorite way to build something. It forces me to be a little bit more creative.