Alexis's Baby Blessing

Yesterday was Alexis's baby blessing at our church. Ben gave her such a beautiful blessing. We had a lot of family and the Tongs and Hanamaikais (both practically family) join us which was really great. Alexis is lucky enough to have 5 grandmas (2 great) and 3 grandpas (1 great) that were all able to be there! Our friends, the Mailes, were also blessing their baby girl, Ane, as well so our church was very crowded. This fall we had another baby boom in our ward- the year McKade was born there were 22 babies born! This year there were only 6, but 5 of those were born between September and the beginning of October. It's so much fun to have so many newborns in the ward!
Afterwards we went to our house for lunch. We wish we could've invited more people but we were afraid the weather would not cooperate and we would have to accommodate more than forty people in our home instead of our backyard which would be insane. Our fears were justified since after having an entire week of beautiful, sunny 70 degree weather, the weather turned for the worse and it rained like crazy and turned really cold for the day! Somehow we did end up filling our house with everyone and had a nice, all be it cozy, time eating, visiting, and celebrating Alexis!