Jackson's Blessing

Last Sunday we blessed Jackson at our house. We had to have it at our house due to how late our sacrament meeting is so that my dad could make it. (He flies out to Lewiston, ID every Sunday for work on Monday and Tuesday and there's only one flight which he would have missed if we would have waited till our Sacrament meeting at 3:00!). Though we would have liked to have it at church so that we could have invited more people it all worked out well in the end. It was a little crazy all packed into our small living room but it was a really nice experience and little Jack was perfectly quiet the entire blessing. At the end of the blessing all the men moved their hands to step away and I guess Chad didn't have too great of a hold on him so Jackson came a bit close to taking a tumble but Daddy saved the day. :)



Our first family pic where everyone is at least looking in the same direction and mostly smiling...



Three generations of Henkel men.



Everyone agrees that Jackson got the "Lamb eyes"(my side of the family has those squinty smile eyes) Plus everyone says that Jackson pretty much is a little spitting image of my Dad. So my dad was trying to do Jackson's big smile face to show you how similar they look.



Jack didn't quite cooperate by doing his usual huge smile but as you can see from the pic above that Jack is a little Bryan. The grandpa's are definitely excited to have a little grandson now!



The proud Grandmas holding the little bud!



I had to show this picture because if you look close you will see that some people didn't quite get the memo that this pic was supposed to be a "normal" photo.



That same person didn't quite get the memo that this picture is a "funny" picture...



In the end we were able to get everyone on the same page!



The Lamb family minus Tyler.



The Henkel side of the family.



The Lamb side.



Our little family (Ella was having a tough time wanting to take any pictures that morning so pretty much every picture she is crying, squirming,or looking the other direction and Jack on the other hand was plum tuckered out after all the commotion over him!)



Henkel kids.



Lamb kids.



The Barnums (Diana, Jason and Macazlyn)



Mom and Dad Lamb



Mom and Dad Henkel. (check out Gigi's amazingly blue eyes!)



Some friends in our ward that were able to come to the blessing.



All the cousins...as you can see Ella was NOT having picture time!



After the blessing we had fruit crepes and we tried to take a picture of Ella's berry stained face but she was not interested.



This was her I'm going to rough you up if you take one more picture of me face!



And we can't forget another exciting celebration of that weekend was my little brother Cody's 13th birthday!



We love you Cody! Thanks for coming down even on your birthday and when you weren't feeling well!