Catching Up Part 2 (Samantha's Blessing)

Samantha was blessed on November 14th. The day went wonderfully well other than a few mishaps. Her dress stayed nice and clean the whole time she wore it; she slept through the entire blessing; Steven, Cody, Samantha, and myself were all healthy; and my amazing mom provided all the food for the luncheon afterwards leaving me with little to no worry about that. The mishaps included Steven's mom not being able to make it because she was too sick, my dad not being able to make it to the luncheon because of other Sunday duties, my brother unfortunately was out of town during it, one of my sisters and one of my brothers live out of town and couldn't make it, and Cody (the little stinker) decided that right when the blessing began would be a really good time to start acting up and being really disruptive so that I wouldn't be able to hear most of it. :( Yep...it's true. I pretty much missed the whole thing. However, we know a lady who was kind enough to come to the blessing and short-hand the whole thing. She did this with Cody's blessing too. So, I will at least be able to read the blessing in it's entirety. Thank heavens for her! I am so grateful to Steven for being worthy to give the blessing. He is an amazing husband and father!