November 1, 2009

Jace's Blessing

It was such a wonderful day.  Joe gave Jace a name and a blessing.  Joe and I also bore our testimonies for the very first time publicly.  To contemplate, and verbalize it makes it much more real.  I hope Jarek and Beau, who are old enough to have paid attention, got something from it.  Those in attendace were: 

Our family; Joe, Jamie, Jarek, Beau, Jada and of course Jace


 My Grandma, Virgina Harder


My parents, Stephen and Cathy Harder


Joe's mom and sister, Mary and Katie Jones


Steve Smith and his family: Natalie, Breanna, Josh, Jacob, Michael, Daniel and Rebekah


Jane Ostler and her family; Chad, Ben, Brandon, Elisabeth, Evie and Grant


Sam Smith and family; Kim, Tristan, Kael, Ashleigh and Kallista.  My friend Julie Sears and her sister Katie were also there.  Sam's family and Julie left before we took pictures.

The men who stood in the circle with Joe were Steve Smith, Chad Ostler, Sam Smith and Bishop Jensen


After sacrament meeting we met back at our house for refreshments.  Thanks to everyone who came and supported Jace and our family.We love you!

After a busy day, he's just plain tired :)

2 comments:

Jamie said...

Sorry we couldn't make it. He is getting so big. We so need to do something.

Shel and Aaron said...

Darling Pictures! It looks like it was a great day - sorry we missed it!!!