Carden's Baby Blessing

Sunday April 27, 2008

We blessed Carden on Sunday in the BYU 130th Singles Ward (since that is where Justin and I are serving, Justin is the 2nd Counselor to Bishop Brown). It was a beautiful blessing and the circle was complete with all the uncles and grandpas! Carden actually didn't peep! I was so relieved because I had only fed him for 10min before we left the house and then he was a little fussy for the first opening song. He looked so cute in his little white sweater and pants that Nana gave him! We also sang "Dearest Children God is Near You" for the intermediate hymn. The day was warm and sunny. Everything was perfect. We are so blessed to have had so many family members here and a part of this special time. Justin was conducting and ended the meeting with his sweet and powerful testimony of our Heavenly Father's love for each one of us.

BYU Graduation

Well...my BYU life is officially over! While I actually graduated in December I attended commencement and "walked" this weekend. It was a great weekend, and I'm so grateful to have had so much family in town that were willing to sit through it all! :) THANKS to ALL who came!

More CUTE Carden!!!

Carden & Marin!

More cute faces

Here's some more cute Carden faces...he also watched his first Suns game the other night (a dismantling of the Spurs!)

Carden's First Day Home!

Carden got to come home to some snow on Monday, thanks to this crazy Utah weather...It was quite cold and snowed a couple times that week!

Cleft Chin!

Carden in his Navy Blue

Baby Carden Arrives!!!

On April 05, 2008 at 9:42 a.m. little Carden Douglas Sweeney was born!!!! He is such a cutie. Marin did so well...here's the story:

Marin and I worked at Wilson Diamonds that night and came home, ate dinner and watched GoldenEye with Mike and Ashley. As soon as the movie was over (at around 1:00am) Marin stood up and her water broke! We ran down to the hospital and got all hooked up. Marin bravely endured the contractions for a few hours and at 6:30am she got the epidural. From there things progressed super fast. By 8:30am she had gone from a 2.5cm to a 10cm in two hours!!! At 9am Marin started to push and at 9:42 little Carden finally came!

He is the cutest little boy, and we are sooooo happy to have him. Both him and mom are healthy and loving life back at home. We'll post lots of pics and video in the upcoming weeks and months

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