The Walter Family: Bennett's Baby Blessing

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Bennett's Baby Blessing

Bennett was blessed on Friday, November 25th. He was 1 month old. We chose to do it outside of church since family was going to be in town only for a short time for Thanksgiving. So after receiving approval from our Bishop we prepared a wonderful dinner and dessert for the occasion. We made 3 soups. Clam Chowder, Baked Potato and Chicken Tortilla. We had all the sides needed and tons of dessert. We had a ton of food! It was great! We held the blessing at Great Grandma Linn's home to accommodate the amount of people that were going to attend. We had about 30 people there. We blessed him and then dug into the food. It was a wonderful evening. Here are a few shots.

Bennett was an angel during the blessing. He slept most of the time the whole evening. What a cute boy.

With Grandma Bonnie, and Great Grandma's Linn and Alvey

Mimi and Grandpa Linn and Grandpa Walter

Grandma Bonnie, Grandpa, Debbie, Bennett and Stephen

The Royce family (except Emerson) and The Walter family

The Linn, Walter and Alvey generations

Great Grandma Linn holding Bennett. We are so grateful to her for allowing us to use her home. We had such a good time and we are so grateful to all those who traveled so far to visit us and be apart of this special event. There were so many pictures we focused mainly on the group shots. You are all very special to us and we love you all! Bennett is truly a blessing to us and we are so grateful the Lord has blessed us with him.

3 comments:

Sevenofus said...: Cute!! What a sweet little boy!

You dad and Bonnie are in our ward and it is great to see them on Sundays!; December 11, 2011 at 9:20 PM
HayMadSam said...: Bennett is such an angel! The fist picture of him is absolutly darling!; December 12, 2011 at 3:09 PM
Anonymous said...: What a wonderful surprise awaited me on the computer--------ALL those pictures. And isn't he the cutest litle man God ever gave anyone!!!!! Makes my Christmas more then Merry this year.
You just want to reach right into the screen and grab him and just hug the daylights out of him. You all must feel a great renewal of love each and every morning when he wakes up. Of course, kisses and hugs from "GG" Jo. I can see him changing in looks already. By the way, did his Xmas sock arrive?

I loved all the family pictures also, especially the one of you all in Disney. Wish Smitty was here to enjoy it with me. We would be talking of how we moved here and there were only five of you all across the street and then there were seven and------away the Walter Family went. and goes. Aren't you guys aware of over population/(ha)

If only Judy and Paul knew how awful we thought of them as parents, sending their 3 children off for the day at 5 or 6 in the morning. No it was none of our business but we felt so sorry for those "3". Five years later when we FINALLY got to know your folks did we understand where they were going every morning.

Time to sign off. Going to lunch with a few people I used to work with today. Kisses and hugs for one and all. Love, Jo; December 15, 2011 at 11:01 PM