After our wedding I had always dreamed of taking my wedding dress and making it into a blessing dress if we were lucky enough to have a little girl. Fast forward six years and my dream came true. My sweet aunt was kind enough to take apart my wedding dress and sew Nova a blessing dress. It turned out beautiful- the dress as made from the bottom half of my dress and she even transferred over some of the beading. Then I made a headband with some extra beading and dress material- she looked beautiful. She was given a wonderful blessing by her Daddy the first weekend in March. Afterwards we had breakfast at Grandma's for everyone who came to support us. I'm so thankful for this little girl. We are so grateful Heavenly Father trusted us with such a sweet little spirit. We feel so blessed that she is ours. 

My baby brother received his mission call a few weeks ago. I'm still having a hard time believing the tiniest of the family will be leaving on mission. He leaves 16 days before "M" comes home from his mission- two brothers separated for 4 years. We sure are going to miss "J" but he are so excited for him to serve the people of Cuiaba Brazil. 

My baby brother graduated from high school last weekend. And then on sunday he put in his mission papers- i get all teary eyed just thinking about him leaving for two years. I'm still not sure how our littlest brother grew up so quickly- 

Here's a few of the pictures we quickly snapped a few weeks ago- isn't he handsome! 

Next week we lose another little brother for two years to the mission field. We are sad to see him and his crazy antics leave- but we are sure proud of his desire to serve a mission. We love you Mattie and we know you'll be a wonderful missionary! 

p.s you look so grown up in these pictures!