Olive's Baby Blessing

Today has been busy!

Miss Olive Lynn Russell is the newest member of the LDS church. :)

Micah and I had so much to prepare for everyone coming over.. Naturally we did everything the night before.

I was super stressed the week before, trying to make sure we planned accordingly and had everything ready. He wasn't nervous at all though! Stinker. 

The morning of though, Micah and I switched places... I was surprisingly calm, totally not stressed out at all and he was nervous for the blessing! He wanted to make sure he did a good job, followed the proper "guidelines" of giving a baby blessing... And plus, we had a lot of people coming so the pressure was on!

Olive was all smiles in her carseat, sucking on her hand before the blessing and of course just as Micah picked her up to head to the front to bless her, she started getting cranky.

Awesome. 

Thankfully she quieted immediately when Micah started into the blessing. In the circle with Micah was my dad John, brother Mark, father-in-law Lynn (who Olive's middle name is from), and brothers-in-law Matt, Josh, & Ben. 

The blessing was beautiful, absolutely perfect. If Micah was still nervous when he was up there he hid it very well; his voice didn't shake at all and he was very steady throughout. 

Once he was done, he held up my cute little baby girl, showing off her ridiculously fluffy elegant dress. (My mom bought it for me, from The Quilted Bear - it was hand made and absolutely darling.) 

For the rest of our sacrament meeting Olive decided to cry her sweet little head off so I stayed in the hall with her until the very end when she fell asleep. 

Back at my house we had a simple brunch of muffins, fruit, bread, & smoothies! (Lynn brought the smoothie machine from the Russell's ice cream factory with him... One definite perk of having the Russell's ice cream be in your family - endless ice cream!) That was the most people our house has ever had in it and it was packed! We had probably 50 people coming & going through. Way fun but a little crazy!

Olive stayed asleep for the first little bit then woke up for some pictures. 

Poor little grump, she was hungry.. I forgot her headband too.  

We changed outfits before I fed her.. She was not happy with Uncle Matty or that headband!

Sheridan had slightly better luck keeping her happy-ish. 

And her Great-Aunt Erin gave her this darling bracelet! 

Such a fun day, crazy busy, but so fun. Micah and I cleaned up once everyone left then passed out for quick naps before our weekly Sunday dinner at my parents house. We had such a fun time catching up with our friends and family that could make it!