Ruby’s Blessing Day

November 30th Ruby was blessed in church by her dad and various family members that were able to make it.

While my mom was here to help with Ruby as a newborn, she made this beautiful blessing dress for her! I had an idea of what I wanted it to look like and then stood in the aisle of JoAnn’s for like an hour because they didn’t have the white-on-white kind of print I was imagining in my head!

After some phone Google searching, I decided lace over satin for the bottom would look cute and we got some lace for the sleeves and headband, too.  We put a scallop-trimmed ribbon over a plain satin ribbon for the “belt” part of the dress and then i hand sewed on  three little flowers I found in the button aisle.  I love how it turned out!

I took apart a store bought headband so I could add lace and add another little flower on it to match the dress.

Perfect match!

And here is our little princess all dressed up in it!  It was a bit big on her since she only gained like 1 1/2 lbs instead of 3 or 4 lbs like she needed to to actually fit in it ;) My Mom also crocheted me this blanket with a cute scalloped edge on it for her blessing day.

Here are all the men that participated in the circle.   {Left to Right: My Uncle Vic, My brother in law, Greg, Ruby’s Dad, Scott, holding Ruby, and my Uncle Brian} One of my brothers lives nearby, but he was sick that day and couldn’t make it.

    After the blessing at Church, we invited everyone to come to our house for a little munch and mingle.

We were so glad that Scott’s mom could be here from Georgia! Ruby was pretty much done with people holding her, though, by the time we tried for this picture!

   My sister making Ruby smile.  Adorable.

A picture with my Grandmother Harris (Ruby’s Great Grandmother!)And one more with Scott’s mom!   We are so grateful for all those that traveled to be here with us for the blessing! It truly made the day special for us and little Ruby. 

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For my records: All those that came: Aunt Laura & Uncle Brian, Sara, Kevin and Ethan.  Aunt Meg.  Aunt Shauna and Uncle Vic.  Grandma Harris, Jen & Greg and all their kids, Brenda Brown