Special Day for our Family!!!!

Today as you can see from the title was a very special day for our family. Kathy and Jeff's newest daughter Georgia Marie was blessed today at church. She looked so beautiful as you can see in her white dress. This dress was worn by both Jessica and Sarah, so it has very special memories. Jeff gave her a beautiful blessing, and she was pretty good throughout the whole thing, letting out a few noises towards the end. She is such a beautiful little girl and it was so special to see her blessed. It was extra nice as well because I got to sit with Brandon today at church, for those who don't know, I'm still in Halifax Ward at church while Brandon is in Cole Harbour because it starts earlier, so he can make it to some of the meeting before going to work. Church is always wonderful but for some reason it's just so much better when I get to sit with Brandon. Plus it was awesome to have almost my whole family surrounding me (minus Laura- you suck!! PEI come on!!) I unfortunately had to work today, but more on that later, so I didn't get to go to the family BBQ which would have been so yummy, so I made sure to snap a few pic's before I left and then left the rest in the hands of my mother.

Phil and Sonja were back today at church and it was so nice to see them. I really miss sonja when she's away because she's one of the people I talk to almost everyday, so it was nice to look across the aisle at church and see them sitting there. Ethan is getting so big, he has so many teeth now and a bit more hair although it's pretty blond. Today in Sacrament meeting he was playing peek-a-boo which was one of the cutest things ever!!! Brandon and I had Ethan sit with us for a little bit and he was a little charmer as always. He definitely loves his cousins.

Sadly though I had to leave church early today at 11am because I had to work, and trust me I was not impressed at all. My store was not only open today but it is also open tomorrow...no Canada day for me this year I guess...Oh but I forgot retail people don't count as people, we don't get to have a life and celebrate holidays, we just have to work, so people can not spend time with their families on Holidays, they can shop. So needless to say I wasn't wanting people to ask me how I was today because I was going to tell the truth. We had an okay day I guess....time passed fairly slow at first but luckily picked up. Christina and I watched the Canada Day/ Tattoo parade from the store window...it was pretty good I guess. The only good thing that comes out of working Sunday and Monday is that I'm gaining two paid days off for after the wedding which is awesome...I try to focus on that!!!

After work I ran some food down to Brandon who was working a super long shift today, so I grabbed him some food and took it down which he really appreciated!! I secretly just wanted to see him, and bringing him food was the perfect reason to get to see him!!! I cannot wait until we have jobs where we have the weekends off, it'll be soooooooo nice!!

The wedding plans are coming along well, I'm in the process of figuring out decor for the reception and rounding up the remaining RSVP's...there are still a few slackers who have yet to RSVP and they better do it soon. Brandon and I have our marriage license which is exciting, one step closer!!

I should mention since I have not posted since Monday...Wednesday evening Brandon picked me up from work and we headed down to the Five Fisherman Restaurant for dinner with his family as well as his grandparents that were in town for Brittany's Graduation (Congrats Brittany and Laura on Graduating!!) Anyway the restaurant was beautiful, they had someone walk us up to our seat and they were very quick to refill drinks etc. Also the sun was shining in my eyes and they came over and closed them for me...most places are not this caring- it was quite nice. We had a delicious dinner- I had chicken...yummy!!!! There was a salad bar and muscle bar, which Brandon loved- he had 4 plates of them..I on the other hand tried 2. Dessert was just as wonderful...cheesecake...YUMMM!!!! It was a great meal and even greater company...I had the nicest time talking with the family and with Brandon's grandparents. They are just the sweetest people. His grandmother Sandie came over and gave me a hug as soon as we arrived. Meaghan and I spoke wedding plans which was super exciting. It's so awesome- I get my wedding in August and then Meaghan's in October! I LOVE WEDDINGS!!!!! When we went to leave we stopped outside to talk a minute longer and Brandon's grandfather Steve gave me a hug good-bye, it was just such a great dinner, I am definitely marrying into a wonderful family!

I definitely feel very blessed to not only have an amazing family myself, but to be gaining another amazing family!! I am being doubly blessed!! I can't even express how excited to gain more members to my family!!!

Anyway even though my Canada Day weekend is a total bust, I still want to wish everyone a HAPPY CANADA DAY!!! Here are four little cuties modeling their Canadian pride...Check out Facebook for all of Georgia's blessing photos!!!