Ffion's Blessing

On Sunday, September 12th, 2010 we blessed our beautiful daughter 

Ffion Lillian Clarice Worsey 

We were hoping to do it at church before my mom and dad flew back to Wales, but it didn't go to plan so we blessed her in our home.  It was still just as special, thanks to everyone who attended.  She was so blessed to have so many worthy priesthood holders surround her as daddy blessed her. 

After the blessing we had a great family dinner I think there was just over 40 people here!!!  The entertainment was provided by Dale who skillfully vacuum up millions of flies that came in while we had all the doors open.  It was kinda funny, 40 people watching him as he sucked them up one at a time, almost cheering ~ yeah, we're pretty lame, but watching was addictive!  Despite the funness (not sure that's even a word) of it, it was pretty gross, I kinda felt like I was in an outhouse, not in my home!  Yuk!

{would like to insert a picture here if anyone took one of the flies}

Anyway, it was a wonderful day.  Thanks to all my wonderful family and friends for coming!

Ffion and her first week

Well, she's here and she's beautiful!  Ffion arrived safely after a 4.5 hour labour from start of induction on Friday, September 10th, 2010 at 2:45pm.  She weighed in at 6lbs 12oz and measured 19 inches long (49 cm).

In my earlier predictions, I might have been dreaming with most of them, but honestly - many dreams came true!

She's a picture of health, she came on a day that suited most, she weighed 6lbs 12oz (now how's that for a prediction, 1oz off),  she did arrive after just one push and I did manage to get into my pre-pregnancy jeans.....ok, so I won't brag, it took me till day 3.

So far she is a fabulous baby.  She feeds between 9-10pm, sleeps till 4am, feeds, poops and then sleeps till between 8-9am.  How did I manage that one eh?  She is wonderful.



The girls adore her, especially Aylish.  She LOVES to help - sometimes a bit too much.  She has already had her straw from her pop in Ffion's mouth (of course Ffion was thirsty) and a couple of days ago she picked her up out of bed and brought her to me yelling "mom, I got her"!  If Ffion can survive Aylish I truly believe she will survive ANYTHING!

Shannon, Keira and Rylee love her to bits too.  There is always a queue to hold her, it's the first thing they want to do when they wake up in the morning, it's really sweet.  I am so lucky to have 5 beautiful, healthy little girls, I love each of them so much.

Richard is as usual, the perfect husband.  Always willing to help and support me.  I'm amazed at how blessed I am.

Mom and Dad have been here the past 3 weeks and it's been wonderful.  I love them so much and appreciate all that they do for me and my family.  Today is a sad day for me cause they flew home.  I know that in time we will be together again, I just wish it would hurry up and come!

So here she is, the newest member of our family.  

Ffion Lillian Clarice Worsey, the perfect little angel.

The Bike

This summer we decided that it was time for Shannon to hand down her bike to Keira and get a bigger one for herself.  We decided that we would use this and teach her the need to save.  We didn't ask her to save for the whole thing, just $30 towards it.  That shouldn't be hard right?

How wrong was I?  Oh my goodness, I never knew how hard it was going to be.  Shannon did very well at earning money towards her bike but had a difficult time with not spending it (I know, I know, that's most of us right?).  She frequently visited the gas station with friends and treated them to whatever, spending $10 - $15 a shot!  It was sooooo FRUSTRATING!

We finally decided that drastic measures needed to be made for her to take this task seriously.  We lowered the seat on her bike and told her that the bike now belonged to Keira and she no longer had one to ride until she had the $30.  Believe it or not there was still one more episode of 'spending' money after we had done this!  She was $9 off her $30 for a couple of weeks when finally her younger sister got so tired of waiting for her to earn this money she kindly donated her portion of the recycling money towards the bike.

It was a very exciting day for ALL OF US on Saturday when she finally got to buy her bike.  We've all learned a lot from this, especially me, I don't think I'm as ready as I'd like to be for my kids to grow up & make the mistakes of life!