Baby Blessing

Our sweet little nephew, Matthew James, was blessed last Sunday. He's adorable. Looks a lot like his brother and sister, but has his own sweetness, too. 

Here's the baby and the "brotherhood," minus my dad, who went home early... (I'm particularly partial to the one on the far right, in glasses.)

It was our first chance to meet him, so I was especially excited to hold and cuddle him. He is about 6 weeks old now, and such a little cuddly chub of a newborn. Look at these yummy pictures! 


We had a big family dinner afterward. I couldn't stop eating. Seriously, I developed an addiction to my sister-in-law's mother's rolls and homemade raspberry freezer jam. I know there are other sufferers from this addiction, so some of you out there can sympathize. I also had to reassure my mother that her peanut butter bar cookies were indeed very tasty --- by eating three or four, or maybe five of them. Sigh. It's like they picked me to single-handedly clean up any food that might be left after everyone went through the line once. I've been paying for it this week with my sluggishness and lack of enthusiasm for exercise. Getting back on the wagon tomorrow. Promise.

I took a few cute pictures of some of the grandkids, while we were all gathered together. Thought I'd share...

Little BJ, showing us the big scratch on his arm. Look at that sad, sad little face! You bet he got plenty of sympathy from us!!
Little Sara, tuckered out and fast asleep on her grandpa's lap.
Princess Sammie. No matter where she is, she always finds the princess gear. She came up with this pose on her own, too!
Anna, glaring at me for taking her picture. She still looks at me like "how do you know my name??" every time I talk to her. One day we'll be buds. Won't we??
Spence, standing up and posing like a champ! He love the little red light on our new camera, which comes on right before the pictures takes, so we get some good shots that we owe to the Canon. yay! Btw, Spencer started walking this week! If I can catch a video of him I'll have to post it sometime soon. It's adorable.
Three manly Hone Bros. See the resemblance?? 
It was a nice weekend, though a short trip for us... We got there Saturday at 5:30 pm and left on Sunday by 7 pm. (Our plan was that we'd leave late in the evening and our kids would sleep all the way home. Bad plan; the kids were AWAKE and restless and overtired ALLLLLL the way home, errr at least almost all the way!) Anyway, we had a fun time and loved seeing that baby!