Quintin's baby blessing

We blessed our sweet baby boy in church over Thanksgiving weekend so that we could have family here for it. Robert gave him a beautiful blessing. It was such a special day and the words spoken in the blessing were powerful and yet also calming and peaceful as I think about raising this precious little baby boy. I loved listening to Robert give him the blessing because as I listened I could hear in his words just how much he and our Heavenly Father loves Quintin. I was so grateful for all of the family and friends who supported us and Quintin on such a special day.

So much catching up to do!

Well, I had grand intentions of blogging about Thanksgiving and Quintin's blessing before Christmas, but it didn't happen. Things got in the way, things like a little virus that hit I, Robert, and Quintin, a massive ward Christmas party that I and the rest of the Relief Society was in charge of, shopping for Christmas gifts, Robert had finals and had tithing settlements for the first half of December which left me being a single parent. Life has now slowed down a little bit for now and it's time to play catch up. Christmas was great and I WILL blog about it before Valentines day I promise, but lets start with Thanksgiving and work our way to Christmas.

For Thanksgiving we were lucky enough to have Robert's parents and his older brother and his wife come this year. We had a great time with them being here and Quintin enjoyed being the center of attention with his Oma and Opa. He also got to meet his Uncle Red (Jared) and Aunt Erin for the first time and he now counts them as a couple of his BFF's!

After traveling all day and a 3 hour drive from Austin, TX because of traffic Oma and Opa got to relax with this little munchkin!

We love these 2! Erin and Jared just chilling after a very successful day of shopping on black friday...we weren't crazy this year and didn't leave the house until 9 am, but we still managed to find good deals and then came home to relax and play games and feasted on leftovers and popcorn from our awesome popcorn store here in Waco.

Here's baby Q hanging with his new homey...Uncle Red watching Transformers, enjoying some quality "man" time! Poor Quintin is exposed to many chic flicks because he spends the majority of his time at home with me so he was very grateful for a chance to hang with some "dudes" when Erin and I ran to Target for some things.

I think he got the roasting pan confused with his bassinet! Or maybe he was jealous of the Turkey's crib and wanted to try it out!

We had a great Thanksgiving and loved having family here to spend it with. We were grateful that our good friends the Eagars got to also spend it with us. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, I love the time spent with family and friends over delicious food...which we had, but sadly didn't take any pictures of this year!