Sealing and Blessings

What an amazing few weeks we've had! Not only did we get to bring home our beautiful new Ethan, but we got to seal Luke to us and bless both Luke and Ethan in church! As we sat in the celestial room waiting to be sealed I/we felt overwhelmed with all of the blessings we have received in our lives this past year. We feel so lucky to have had Luke join our family in such a miraculous way, Jake has a good job (which seems like a miracle these days), we've really worked to pay off our debt, my parents have been gracious enough to let us overtake their home, and we added a beautiful and sweet little boy to our ever-growing bunch!

The sealing was short and sweet--actually my Mom didn't even know it happened until we all stood up and started filing out! Luke was giving us some tough love as he put up a fit throughout the ceremony which meant we really didn't hear much of what was being said. It was such a wonderful feeling to finally have him adopted and eternally sealed to us. Thank you to all who came and participated in the event--especially Jamie, Grammy, Grampa, Austin, and Grandma Jewkes--all the way from Utah!The next day we had the AWESOME opportunity to bless both of the kids on the same day--so cool! Jake did a fabulous job and it all went off without a problem except that Jake called Ethan by "Luke" once. Oh well!Now Grampa and Jamie/Austin are back in Utah, Mom, Julie, and Claire are in Texas and we get the privilege of having some one on one time with Grammy at home! Yeah, lucky us!Ethan update: cute as beans, a very good baby, already working on his Baby Wise schedule, growing rapidly with all he is eating, keeping mommy partly insane but not too bad! We just love him so much and he is so stinkin' cute! Due to my "cabin fever" he's already begun making outings to a petting zoo, the grocery store, Wilson's Warehouse, and story time. Cooper is very in love and sweet with him and Luke is trying not to slap him so hard every time he sees him and trying not to be so jealous of his bottles. The insanity is fun!! When we looked through Cooper's scrapbooks we noticed and uncanny resemblance between him and Ethan. I think they are going to look exactly alike as they get older. Weird!