8 is GREAT!!!!!!!

Carter had his 8th birthday in November!! So on December 12th he was baptized and became an official member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The few days leading up to the baptism were a little bit stressful. An LDS firefighter had died that week and his funeral was held at the church building we were going to have the baptism at. So that means we were bumped to another building. The way it works is that funerals have precedent over any other activity that is planned at a building. Now usually that is no big deal but the problem was getting the final ok on WHICH building we were to use so we could let everyone know which one to go to. Here there are LDS church buildings on every other corner (we are lucky!!) so it was a matter of details. After that detail was solved it was all good.


We had a real nice and simple day. We had friends come from in town that we hadn't seen in far too long so that was nice and we had our friends from out here that made it too. My parents were able to come also. My mom gave a talk about baptism and Rob talked about the Holy Ghost and baptized Carter. After the baptism we went home and everyone came over for a luncheon. I am thankful for our friends and family that came to support and show love to Carter on his day. Thank you.

Here we are waiting to go into the Chapel. The kids were all smiles and eager to get their pictures taken.

Tanner didn't really want to get a picture taken.

Cooper wouldn't let me get a picture of him. He had to take the camera and get a picture of himself by himself!!