Yesterday we blessed our sweet baby girl Nora Ann Madsen! We were surrounded by our closest family and friends and felt so much love! We did a hot chocolate bar and made the yummiest cinnamon rolls and it was super easy and perfect!
Caden gave Nora the sweetest blessing! The parts that stood out to me the most were that Nora would have great faith, the ability to recenter herself and find humor when times are tough, and seek out JOY and pass that onto others! I also loved that he blessed her to be strong, stand up for herself and know that nothing is impossible because she can do hard things. We have no doubt that Nora will be able to do just that and we are so blessed to have her in our family and be able to be there to watch her grow into the amazing person she will become!
Story time.. while Caden was still on his mission, cute little McKayla ordered a custom wedding dress while living in China. It didn’t actually show up until almost a year later, two weeks before my wedding, and it was unfinished. 
I was devastated but by some miracle found a rental just a few days before my wedding of basically exactly what my custom dress was supposed to look like. I held onto that beautiful unfinished dress in hopes that one day I’d have a daughter and be able to turn it into a blessing dress for her. My sweet grandma turned that dream into a reality and that China dress finally got to be worn. 
She did an amazing job and Nora looked so beautiful!
It was funny to reflect on that dress and all the meaning behind it. I was so sure about Caden that even though he had six months left of his mission I spent the rest of the money I had on that dress, because I pictured the life we’d share together and seeing her in it yesterday, made that dream come full circle. This family we’ve made together is my entire world! It made it even more special because she was coincidentally blessed on the 9th anniversary of when Caden left on his mission. We really are so blessed! 
[…] blessed by her […]