Blessing

On Sunday Gabriel was blessed. His daddy did the blessing and was assisted by Gerald Fitzgerald, Robbie Laypath and of course Paw Paw. It was such an awesome blessing. Gabriel didnt make a peep except for soft little singing which nobody but the people doing the blessing could hear. He was blessed to grow in the church and learn, to be a humble person and do well in school so he can support his family, find a wife and marry her in the temple and have lots of children. He was also blessed to teach his children "about the church , the things I am trying to teach you" It was soo sweet. I nearly cried several times. It kinda made up for blacking out when Gabriel was born and missing Josh's reaction cause I definatly saw a reaction from him while he was giving Gabriel his blessing.
 Gabriel looked like a little angle in his white outfit chewing on the collar. I know why they call it a blessing. A blessing for our little blessing.

stress?

Yesterday while everyone was at work I had Elise in the tub, and Gabriel had poo'd up his back and was screaming, then Elise started screaming about how the water was to cold in the bathtub. All of this while I was trying to wash clothes. So that is a pretty stressful situation of course but after further review and pondering it occurred to me that I would rather be doing that than any other form of work. What else is going to be more fulfilling? So, ya, while its gross to be up to your elbows ( and in Gabriel's case neck) in dirty diapers there is nothing else I'd rather be doing. How lucky I am.

Our trek

So last Thursday my mother, myself and my kids packed up the car and headed to Franklin Tennessee. Little did we know there would be a blizzard with which to contend. From Birmingham to when we finally stopped in a little town called Cullman Alabama we passed 17 wrecks and then saw the result of 3 more the following morning. A lot of people would have been pretty irate I guess but my new goal is to try and be more positive. So at least we weren't in any of those wrecks, and while Gabriel screamed from Birmingham till when we stopped at least Elise was good. Other things to be grateful for are the facts that we could find a place to stay and had the money to pay for a place to stay and didn't have to stay in the car and freeze. Everyone wants to go on vacation to Cullman Alabama. lol
We got there and stayed with my cousin Kari and her mother, my aunt Nancy. While we were there Kari made some hair bows for Elise , we went to Kari's son, Chase's basketball game. His team is called the Celtics but Elise kept hollering " GO SEPTICS!" Which was pretty entertaining. They also won which was fun for us as well. Gabriel was fascinated by the game and didnt take his eye of the ball the whole game. He might be athletic. We went to see the movie Megamind which I had already seen but my mom hadn't Gabriel watched the whole thing as well. And we went to church Sunday Elise went strait to primary no problem and wasn't the slightest bit concerned with the fact she had never seen these people before in her life. We watched the Super Bowl in Kari's theater room on the 10 ft screen which was pretty awesome especially since the team I was pulling for won. On the way home Gabriel screamed from Meridian all the way home. Didn't even take a break. He is the most stubborn baby ever. He wins the " most stubborn", and "loudest' award. He never gave up and just went to sleep. But at least Elise was happy. This is about all for now so hopefully I will write more often. Need to get in the habit.