Bella has quite a few girl cousins around her same age. She loves them already! Three of them were also at Grandma Heidi's house so Bella got to play with them! Here is a picture of her twin cousins, Ariana and Ariah(Uncle Taylor's kids) and Addeleine,(aunt Anneka's little girl). You will also see Anneka and Johnny sitting at the dinner table.
We went to Idaho a few weeks ago and Bella met her Grandma Heidi and Grandpa Mark and some cousins, and aunts and uncles. We baptized McKayla the Saturday we were there and then blessed Bella on Sunday. Isabella was lucky to be blessed on the same sunday as Hyrum Walker(Aunt Anneka's new baby boy). I am including all the baptism and blessing pictures here on this and the next post. I apologize for not including Hyrum. Isabella was so fussy after church that we had to rush back and get her changed. So we didn't get any of his cute little man outfit. As you can see in her blessing dress, she is not feeling well. She had a tummy ache. :( We will be also using this same dress to seal her to our family in the temple soon. More about that later. Enjoy the pictures!
I thought it would be nice to show Isabella with some family from my side. And the Frisbys were the only ones who came down to see her. Of course they were really coming to see off Kaleb at the MTC. But they did visit and brought a cute outfit for Bella! We got to have the wonderful McKenna come stay over night and Bella really liked her. She even let her hold her a lot and this was rare in the first days at home. Here is a picture of Bella and McKenna and one again of them when we all went to the Brick Oven. And the last is the Frisby Family at the MTC. It was neat to go see Kaleb off! I think he will do great!
For about a month bath time for Bella was very hard. It sounded like we were torturing her by her screams. We decided to take turns having the girls hold her in the tub. This helped! Now she loves to be in the bath or shower even with the other kids or by herself! In fact she says bath and will try to take off her clothes when she sees the tub! Thank goodness we don't hear those screams anymore when we bathe her. This is a picture of Kristen and Isabella in the tub!
A Red Thread to China - "An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but never break." -- Ancient Chinese Belief