Evan's Blessing Day

Evan's Blessing Day arrived  and we all met for a wonderful breakfast made by Jess's Dad.

 Jess knows how to make everything beautiful and festive. 

Evan wore the blessing outfit that Jess's brother JT wore. Evan has his middle name ~ Thomas ~

 Getting dressed.....

 I'm thinking this Mom is mighty happy and glowing today!

 Here we are after Sacrament meeting is over. 

 Jess's family here.

 I like all the pictures of us with Evan so you get to look at them too. 

It was why we went. 

  Here is all of our family.

 All the men in our family. 

 My babies all grown up. 

 I'm a munchkin. 

 Corinne and Shannon wanted to get the house cleaned up for Jess and Scott before we left.

The three of us ~ it's our love language.

 Here are a few pictures of the lodge we stayed at. It had three bedrooms. The girls shared a room, my dad had his own room and we got the master room downstairs. It was really nice!

 Time to go back to reality.

 It seemed like we had this trip on the calendar forever. It was so exciting to anticipate going to meet Evan along with the added joy of having Corinne and Shannon come too.

I don't think anything could have made the trip any better (other than lasting longer).

Scott and Jess are such wonderful partners in parenting. Evan is so blessed to have them. 

He is such a darling and sweet natured little boy. 

I'm so excited to see how he grows and develops his personality. 

So much in those eyes. I can just see it!!!

Evan's Blessing Day #3

Our third day was packed full of activities!!

Jess made appointments at the Nail Salon. 

Corinne and Shannon and Nancy (Jess's mom) and Alyssa (Jess's youngest sister).

Jess and I got pedicures. It worked out just right for us to have time to talk and enjoy being together.

Here we are on the way out the door to go home - Evan came along too!

Next activity was our Texas BBQ at the Miller's. 

They are very good friends of Scott and Jess's.

 I would say a surrogate Mom and Dad and wonderful friends.

I didn't post pictures of all of the food - there was a lot, but you get the idea. It was delicious. The best steak I've ever had. I'm not a big on steak, but it was heavenly. 

 Scott was pretty excited about it. He is really immersing himself in the Texas lifestyle. They both are actually. It is exciting to watch them blossom where they have planted themselves. 

We lounged around for quite a while to let our food settle and enjoy Evan.

 I think there was still some snacking after dinner because there was all manner of M&M varieties in the house and these two are eating. Fred and Shannon were not at the house before we ate. We had a car rental issue so this was definitely after dinner. hmmmm 

We played games after dinner. Heads Up

 Splendor the board game - This is Nancy, Pernell (Jess's Dad) and Julie Miller playing with Corinne.

 Ticket To Ride - Fred, Alyssa and Rick Miller playing.

and Evan again.......

 Here's the group!!!

By evening we made the decision to take the boat tour of the Riverwalk.

I think this will be one of the my all time favorite pictures of Scott & Jess.

They are so happy!! 

It's beautiful along the river. So many lights and the way the buildings and waterway go together. 

We will want to go again and again on our return trips to San Antonio!!

 After Scott & Jess headed home with Evan, we wandered to the Alamo.

I mean wandered......

 Picture of taking pictures.................

Another wonderful day.

Thank you Scott & Jess for all the planning and preparing for us!!

It was a big long day for them. Learning to navigate with a baby. They did GREAT!