Utah Trip Part V: Ruby's Blessing and Other Fun Events

Sunday night (Dec. 26) we had a double baby blessing for Ruby and her cousin Jack. Our immediate families gathered at Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Gwilliam's house to bless the babies. (There would have been waaaay too many people for Grandma and Grandpa's house had we been able to invite everyone from the 3 families involved!). Rob gave Ruby a very sweet blessing. The thing that stood out to me (besides the fact that he blessed her to have a good relationship with her siblingS) was that she would live up to her name and shine brightly like a ruby in this increasingly dark world. It was a beautiful blessing and we sure did feel the Spirit there!

Ruby and Jack

Sweet Ruby

Bunkers

Again, I didn't do such a hot job of the picture taking but despite the lack of photographic evidence, we had a great last couple of days in Utah before flying home on Wednesday. Monday night we attended the Annual Easton Family White Elephant Party. Let me just say that Rob's family is a hoot. We always have so much fun with them!

Tuesday was Mikey's Eagle Scout Court of Honor. Mike is such an amazing young man. I am seriously impressed with all he's able to handle. He's student body president, Madrigals president, plays in the school band, works, plus does great at school and he's cute to boot! Plus he's an Eagle Scout - what an accomplishment!

Wednesday was our exciting packing day for our flight home. Now, remember how we were 13 lbs too heavy on the flight out and we weren't carrying any Christmas presents with us? Right. Uh oh. So we bought those space saver bags that you suck the air out of with a vacuum and we packed our carry-ons so tightly that they probably weighed just as much as our main suitcase! I'm happy to report that we were able to get home with only our carry-ons and the one suitcase we flew out on. It really was a Christmas miracle! The flight home went really smoothly. Both girls were very well behaved and kept everything in their diapers that they should! :) We even had the back two rows to ourselves so we could spread out and have a sound barrier between us and the rest of the passengers. We were exhausted but sad to leave our families. We were blessed to be able to go to Utah and had such a great time!