Crew's Blessing Day!

Crew was blessed this Sunday! We were so grateful to have friends and family come for Crew's blessing, and then after we had a luncheon at our house:


Dave Lemke - My sister Katie's fiance


Scott and his Brother Craig and his Cousin Matt

Scott's Dad -aka Grandpa Butler! and Brother Mike


My sisters-in-law Andrea and Jill, who are married to Scott's brothers


My sister Jennifer and her fiance Daniel - the big day is only 2 months away!!!

Crew and his Grandma Butler who has driven up to BYU lots this last week to watch Crew while I taught the rest of the semester:)

And here are our first "family photos" - we couldn't get Crew to stop crying for longer than 30 seconds, so it was an adventure:)







Thanks to Scott's longtime roommate Ryan Tucker for taking these photos.

I'll always have a soft spot for Ryan and his wife Sherri because of our parallel lives...

Sherri and I were in the same singles ward in South Provo. Over the course of about a month, I showed up at the temple several times, and each time, Sherri would coincidentally be in my session. We had a few heartfelt conversations, mostly about how much we didn't want to be single anymore.

About a month later, Scott and Ryan moved into our ward. They had been waiting for a place to open up in our ward for about a year. They moved in - and Scott and I were engaged 7 or 8 weeks later, and Ryan and Sherri were engaged about 7 or 8 weeks after that. They had baby Lizzie in December, and we had baby Crew in March. Heavenly Father works in beautiful ways.

Here's the proud Daddies:



and Momma's:




We love the Tuckers!