I can't even begin to tell you how wonderful it was to have everyone in town for Raymond and Chloe's blessings this past weekend. This was the first time most of my family meet Raymond John and the first time they visited us at our apartment. It was a weekend of good food, cute babies, and family, family, family.
Hooray for cousins! Tanner and Maggie
Sleeping Maggie and Raymond
Favorite Aunt Paige and Mags
Isn't she gorgeous? I sent my camera off with Sara, Stanford, and Paige (as I am not at all a photographer). When I got my camera back at the end of the weekend there were all sorts of gems. This was one.
Uncle Blake and the nephews got into a royal water fight. Aren't uncles the best?
Grandma was happy to hold all her babies. Here she is with darling little Chase. He is such a happy guy.
The fabulous Richins Family. They are such fun.
My mother is a very talented heirloom seamstress. I wish you could see upclose the beautiful hand tatted lace around the collar and hand stitched smocking. I LOVE this blessing outfit. I love seeing the pictures of Raymond in his sweet all-white outfit. It reminds me how very pure and innocent he is.
Even when he's crying.
The back is just as beautiful as the front. I love the buttoned belt.
I love that Raymond has two "Torgerson" cousins his age. And I love the chaos of this picture as the men folk show off the little ones.
Raymond is also lucky enough to have a Christiansen cousin his same age. Chloe was born just two days before Raymond and was blessed the same day in Nick and Jeanine's ward. I am so sad we didn't get a picture of the two together, but here is the beautiful Christiansen family featuring their darling new addition.
With the Christiansen grandparents
With the Torgerson grandparents.
The babelins and their mamas
All the Torgys
The proud papa
My little man. Don't you just love those jowels?
The babelins and their mamas
All the Torgys
The proud papa
My little man. Don't you just love those jowels?
It was such a wonderful weekend. I was sad when the last of our guests walked out the door. I LOVED sharing my RayJ with everyone and partaking of general family goodness. My only regret was not getting to spend more time with the Christiansens, and the confusion between blessings that didn't let us take any pictures. I'm so sorry, Cansas. I feel terrible about that.I ended up with so many cute pictures of Raymond John that you just might have to get used to seeing him in is beautiful blessing outfit for a while as they might show up in all my posts for a while!
all my lovin'
cj
11 comments:
He is such a beautiful baby. I am glad you had a good weekend.
So fabulous!! Seriously, I LOVED seeing all the pictures (well except the upclose one of me!!!) I just hope we see more posts with lots of pictures like this more often. Fabulous fabulous fabulous! I sure do love you Carly and I loved getting to spend the weekend with you!!!
I loved all those pictures! Wasn't it fun to go through them all!!! Ha! When I saw that picture of Tash, I knew she wasn't going to like it, but I LOVE it and am glad you posted it. :) I just loved getting to see you this weekend Carly Jane and for that sweet boy of yours. He is truly a gem. Can't wait to see more of those pics on your blog!
Awesome! I'm so glad there were so many wonderful pictures. His blessing outfit turned out amazing, I love the lace on the collar most of all! Sounds like a crazy, busy, fun weekend with all the family. :)
What a cute little one. Is that picture inside your place? It looks awfully red to me....The blessing outfit looks great, I can't believe your mom made it. How talented! That must be where you get your wicked mad craft skills from.
What a DARLING outfit.
Also, did I miss why Jeremy is wearing a missionary tag?
Haha, I forgot about the tag. He is in a singles ward bishopric here in Cedar and that's what they do here. everyone in the University stakes who is in a bishopric or stake calling wears a tag. Probably if you zoomed in, you could see that it has his calling listed under his name.
What a wonderful blessing weekend! I am so glad that all your family was able to be there. What a treat. I love all the pictures, especially the one of all the sisters and the babies. So fun.
Congrats Carly! He is adorable! That's so fun that so all your family was able to be there. Family is the best! Great pictures! They are all so cute!
Beautiful pictures! That is wonderful you had all of your family there for the weekend!
Carly - I'm glad we got to share the weekend with you, even though I feel like I didn't get to see or talk with you much. I am sad we didn't get a picture of Chloe and Raymond together, but I had a feeling the pictures would be a bit of a fiasco, and they were. Oh, well. We did the best we could. Hope to see you again soon.
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