Monday, July 12, 2010

A Forever Family (Part 1)

So this is going to be a long post (it was a looong weekend)! The family and festivities all started on Wednesday when Gma and Gpa Urbancic arrived. It was nice for them to arrive early to spend some one-on-one time with Blake before everyone else arrived. With that being said...the rest of the family began to arrive on Thursday, and Friday. We had a house full! But what a great occasion. After 2.5 years of waiting... 8 months of being "watched", finalization at court, the time had finally arrived that we were going to be sealed in the temple as a forever family and then Dan was going to be able to give Blake a father's blessing!!!

Grandma Holly and Blake checking each other out....
Uncle Nate and Aunt Katie trying to steal Blake's toy.... HELP!!!

A big family dinner at Applebee's with Dan, Katie, Nate, Holly, Mike (the photographer), Grandma P, Grandma P, Aranne and Blake...right before we went to pick up Mike from the airport
A little bit of the mess that four little ones can make in just a short amount of time....(oldest to youngest...Ellie, Benjamin, Preston and Blake)

3 comments:

Shaela said...

how wonderful and exciting!! can't wait to hear the rest of the story :)

Kirsten Krason said...

He's so big! I can't wait to see him

Lina said...

Looks like such a great time and occasion - was so bummed we coudln't be there but hopefully we'll be able to get something booked in soon. I'm nagging Gary's ears off about booking a trip in for next summer so fingers crossed. :-) Love you! XXX