Blessing Day

First the basic facts:

Fletcher’s was blessed on March 3, 2013 in the Bonaire Branch in Kralendijk, Bonaire by his father, Brandon.

Those in the Circle: Brandon, Papa Krout, Elder Wayne Smith, President Brian Albus, Brother Hensley Palm, and Brother Daniel Solarin.

Fletcher was dressed in pants, vest, bow tie, and shoes made lovingly by Granna.

The vest barely snapped up!
He is growing so fast.

He was wrapped in a white blanket crocheted by Grammie K

Fletcher cried/whined the whole time he was being blessed. We knew it would happen though. I always feed him right before church and he usually falls asleep and at least makes it all the way through sacrament meeting, but of course he didn’t fall asleep. He was too excited to have his grandparents there!

By the way, I’m so glad that Grammie and Papa K were able to be there. It was so neat to be able to be with them as their first-born son blessed his first-born son. What a legacy! I tried to imagine how they were feeling and how I will feel when Fletcher blesses his children and I felt so overwhelmed with the Spirit and with happiness. How wonderful is this gospel? It truly brings joy.

The blessing was beautiful. Brandon did such a great job. It was a very neat experience to imagine how Fletcher will turn out and what kind of life he will live while his father is giving him a blessing to help him through it all.

I recorded and typed the blessing, so if you want to read it comment or send me an email and I’ll be happy to pass it on.

We were so thankful that Fletcher’s Aunties from school were able to make it. We love Auntie Abbey, Janelle, Kelsey, and Kenisha!

After church we had a small luncheon at the Smith’s house. We had a taco bar and it was so delicious! We were lucky everything turned out though. When we put the chicken in the crockpot in the morning it was frozen and the lid didn’t quite fit on so we just balanced it thinking that as the chicken thawed the lid would fall into place, but instead of doing that it just fell right off, so when we got home the chicken wasn’t all the way cooked! So we had to improvise and hurry and try to cook it and shred it in a frying pan, which worked out just fine. Whew.

After the luncheon we spent the rest of the day napping and loving and playing with Fletcher.

Super Great Day.