Baby Blessing!!! Finally...

So on Mother's day we blessed our sweet little baby, Hayden Joyce Barton. She looked so cute!!! Unfortunately I didn't take as many pictures as now I'm wishing I had....but what do ya do? Anyways, it was great. We just had our immediate families come...it's not that we didn't want anyone else to come, but it was last minute, on Mother's day, and in Logan...3 things that made inviting other people seem pointless. But it was so special! What a great Mother's day gift for me to have my baby blessed :) although next year I'm hoping for a more relaxing Mother's day....but Justin did such a fantastic job! In her blessing one thing he blessed her with was being close with her immediate and extended family members. That is sooo important to me! I was never that close with any extended family members growing up, we are closer now, but I always felt like I missed out because of that. And I only really remember one of my grandparents, and she died when I was 15. Justin is the opposite, he has been super close with all his cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents since he was born, and he still has two living, wonderful grandparents. When I married into his family I could see how close they were and I wanted that for our children. That's one of the reasons moving to Philadelphia is really hard for me...I have been so worried about our baby missing out on valuable family time the first five years of her life, and our families missing out on those years as well. When Justin said that in her blessing it made me feel so much better! I know everything will be fine as  long as we're doing what we're supposed to do.
Well that's it on the blessing, I can't really think of anything else to report, except my birthday I guess....getting old means having a pretty anti-climatic birthday. Justin made it fun for me though! He made a little bib for Haddy that said "Happy Birthday Mommy!" and brought her into work to visit me! It was such a great surprise, I miss her so much when I'm at work! And then when I got home he had a birthday pie ready for me and a card and little gift :) He had 5 all-the-way stamped Cafe Rio cards wrapped up, which means 5 free meals! I was so excited! He is such a sweetheart, I love him so much. He made my birthday special for me :)
Oh also one last thing.....I have officially changed the spelling of Hayden's nick name from Hadi to Haddy.....it just makes more sense, and people kept pronouncing it wrong when it was spelled H-a-d-i which really bugged me. So that's it! The end.

Moving! And baby blessing info towards the end...

Well, I guess it's official now. We've reserved our Pods, we've booked our flights, and put our down payment on the apartment. June 15th is when we fly out, that is in just a little over a month! There is so much to be done before we go, it's a bit overwhelming....if anyone has access to a lot of boxes, and they would like to donate them to the Barton Moving fund, please let us know! Also, we could use flat bed trailer if anyone knows of one we could borrow on June 10th....the place we are renting our pods from is called U-Pack and they ship through ABF. Their terminal is down in Ogden so we have to get all of our stuff down there that day. We have access to two trucks, but a flat bed trailer would probably make it so we could get everything down there in one trip! If you know of one available for borrowing please let Justin or I know....we would greatly appreciate it!
We are going to be throwing ourselves a going away party as well, since we'll probably be gone 4-5 years... We are thinking it will be June 11th at my parent's house in Sandy but we don't have any details yet (if you are a member of Justin's family then that party is going to be the week before, either at the cabin or at Mike and LeeAnn's depending on weather). I'll post more when I know more.
I am actually getting really excited to go, now that the details have mostly been worked out. The stress of it has mostly worn off, especially now that we are all flying together (there were many scenarios of getting to Philadelphia, most of them involved either Hadi and I flying alone and Justin driving, or all of us driving...which sounded even less appealing since it'd be 3-4 days). I hate hate hate hate HATE flying. I am not looking forward to it. But having Justin there lessens my anxiety considerably, and my dad will probably be flying out with us as well, so that's even better. It's just nice to have other people around to entertain Hadi if she gets fussy, and that thing people say about how your baby can sense when you are stressed? TRUE! And I am only stressed out when I am out somewhere with Hadi alone. I am so glad Justin will be there. The less stressed I am, the less stressed everyone is....
One last item of business, we have finally decided on a date to bless Hadi! (Yes, we are procrastinators...) This Sunday at 5:00 at our wardhouse in Logan. All are invited, just let us know if you are coming so we can plan on you. We have been trying to schedule a date since the end of March but this has been the first one where all our family members are available....yes we realize it's Mother's Day, we tried not doing it then but if we didn't we wouldn't be able to get Hadi blessed until the end of May, and I'm a little worried that she may not fit into her dress so we want it done ASAP! Anyways, that is all.