The Tingens

Baby blessing weekend

Jacob Tingen
June 23, 2011
Blog, Life, More Pictures, Natalie, Virginia
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Finally we are posting pictures of Natalie’s baby blessing. Thank you so much to family who came and family who didn’t but wanted to 🙂 And thank you so much Micah and Warren for the blessing dress!

I love baby blessings, and any blessing, actually. Different parts of the gospel may have taken a long while for me to gain a testimony of, but I have always felt something sacred about priesthood blessings. I’m glad Jacob was able to bless Natalie.

not from the weekend but still cute 🙂

Grampa Showalter with Natalie for the first time

snoozing at the pool

Gramma loves her pool toys

poor Jenny always injures her foot on vacation

silly Grampa!

Jacob skipping a ball across the water

had to document myself being part of the fun

the notorious “short pump”

luckily Jacob is not a short pump

tradition to take visitors to the famous La Cabana restaurant

abuelitos Tingen enjoying a hearty La Cabana meal at home after a long day’s drive from Georgia

abuelita Tingen with Natalie for the first time

blessing day?

yay!

Jim, Tonya, Natalie, Jacob and Daisy Tingen

thank goodness my mom smoothed out Natalie’s dress

Mark & Marlene with Tonya Natalie and Jacob

Jenny Brent & Julia with Tonya Natalie and Jacob

who is that hot guy holding the baby in the big white dress?

changing out of the beautiful dress our sister-in-law Micah gave us

Grampa and Natalie sitting in a chair while Julia looks ominously on from the background

Brent writing in Natalie’s red book aka journal

Jenny looks so good in purple… she must be a spring or summer

Julia looks so good surrounded by toys

Jenny looks so good in chairs holding two little girls

Julia’s hand looks so good with Natalie’s foot

Jim’s awesome tie looks so good on the couch

Julia and Natalie look so good together!

yay they’re friends!

trying to show Julia how to relax

ice cream looks so good in a bowl

ice cream looks even better in Julia’s mouth

took Jacob’s parents around campus

the study carrel

perusing the tomes

random building

go spiders

trying to get an artistic picture of the lake from the student center

a neat idea, actually…I think the calculations are accurate!

resting

weird outfit

we remembered bread for the ducks

good arm, good arm!

the cute little baby ducky we tried to throw bread to but the big ones kept snarfing it first

the cute baby we didn’t give bread to but she was happy anyway

the new football stadium that Jacob laments is right where the law school parking used to be (closer to the law building)

trying to escape the heat and humidity and get back to the car

tiredy tired

I really like the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (especially because it’s free)

this one was called ‘the struggle’ or something like that

very intricate

window sills look so good with Jacob in them

Jacob looks so good in window sills

the marble hall

trying to be artistic

African banana chair

all covered with beads!

the linguist’s staff

they gave us the Forbidden Island game

with very cool pieces

this was when we first noticed Natalie playing for real for the first time

went to another Natalie’s birthday (Jacob’s holding Natalie Tingen, Francisco’s holding the one-year-old Natalie)

they were so nice to dish us up food even though we left early because Jacob’s parents were back in town

3 Responses

Jenny says:

June 23, 2011 at 4:48 pm

I love that first picture of Natalie! And all the other pictures too. This post convinces me even more that we need to live closer someday. We love you guys! Come visit soon!

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Heidi says:

June 25, 2011 at 11:35 am

Oh how I love seeing pictures of you guys! Smiling Natalie is a very cute thing to see. I am sad we missed the blessing.

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Annie Merrill says:

June 27, 2011 at 3:48 pm

Natalie is absolutely adorable!!!

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