A Baby Blessing & Bibimbap for Abigail!

Todd gave Abigail the sweetest blessing this morning! He blessed her with so many things, but the one that stuck out to me was the gift of Charity! I thought that was so sweet and I started to get emotional… Abigail already has such a sweet way about her—I’m excited to see that gift develop and grow in her! It was such a beautiful day. We went home right after taking pictures after their Sacrament Meeting and I made a HUGE yummy fruit salad with all sorts of things in it… then we headed back to Megan and Todd’s and helped them get all the food prepped for the luncheon. Todd made bibimbap bulgogi for lunch and Allison brought her amazing chocolate chip cookies and there were also Nothing Bundt Cakes cupcakes, as well. It was quite the spread with all the food! We visited with all the people who came and just rested and enjoyed ourselves afterward. Logan didn’t get a nap so he was even crazier than normal… hahaha!

I surprised Megan by sewing a blessing dress for Abigail… we had both looked and looked so hard to find the one I sewed for her baby blessing with absolutely no luck! (We had even both been praying to find it!) Then, Thursday evening as I was falling asleep, I was thinking that if I couldn’t find her dress, I could do the next best thing and just sew a new dress exactly like hers and I even still had the pattern I used! So, I got to work big time on Friday and Saturday sewing, sewing, sewing in order to have it ready by Sunday! Allison was a huge help—I’d forgotten how difficult the pattern was to read and it took both of us to figure it out! She helped me a lot and Saturday afternoon, when I’d finally finished the last step, I ironed it up and took it over to her house to surprise her with it… and she cried! When I first walked in, she thought I’d found her old dress and then I said, “No, this is blessing dress 2.0.” and then she just started to cry! The ONLY thing that was different about it was I put lace on the hem of Abigail’s dress. Megan’s dress was just a plain hem. I sure hope it turns up somewhere and it has been such a mystery as to where that dress went! It was crazy, but I’m so glad that I went ahead and did it—and Allison and I had fun doing it together! (Allison bought the sweet little bracelet for Abigail too!)