Two Birthdays And A Baptism

Nate's baptism was May 14th.

Not only was it the day after Ailey's birthday, it is Eric's dad's birthday. We didn't have much choice on the date, so we went with it. We knew Dad would've been excited that such a special event happened on his birthday.

Because it was the day after Ailey's birthday, we decided we'd just celebrate both birthdays and the baptism the same day. It worked out well as Ailey and Nate are pretty good friends and they had no trouble sharing the day.

I had a little more trouble combining an invite, but I figured it out.

We had two different themes, for very different people. I tried my best to make it work.

For the cakes, I made a candy pizza for Nate's and Ailey got cupcakes with Shopkins on top. I tried my best to keep things simple.

The baptism was crazy as 3 other kids were getting baptized in our ward as well, but they do a good job at keeping the baptism to just the individual kid. It was a little hard to not have Eric's dad as one of the witnesses, but we were thankful we had a really good friend there who was able to do the job. We definitely missed Grandpa.

After the baptism, we headed back home to celebrate these two jokers. They both had a great time and we were thankful for the family and friends who attended. And you should all thank me, because instead of posting the 80+ pictures - I just made a video.

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Six Candles

My baby girl is six! Somehow that makes her seem like she's not a little girl anymore. It was kind of a sad birthday for this mommy, but an awesome birthday for this girlie.

I think she was happy...

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3 Months

Little Zach is 3 months old!

For some reason I didn't do a full out 'photo shoot' this month. It was a crazy month. But, at least I did get some pictures of him on his 'birthday.'

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Happy #60 Mom

My mom turned 60 on her birthday. My older sister knew we had to make the day special, so we planned a surprise party.

My older sister also teaches some sort of Math at a college level and so occasionally she acts us to fill out random questionnaires for statistics. This tactic worked well to figure out what we should serve for dinner and dessert.

We also had my little brother and sister use their gift of lying to get my parents to my sister's house. The story was that my little brother was headed somewhere and broke down close to my sister's house. So he called my dad for help. My dad was part of the lying party and used his best acting skills to act as if he was all put out that he had to help my brother. Somehow he convinced my mom to come along for the drive.

The grandkids were anxious for Grandma to arrive, as evidenced in the video below. My mom was also super surprised and was happy that we remembered her.

My sister also put together a little posterboard picture of how close we all are to the grave. It was kind of funny.

After dinner and dessert, we gave my mom her gifts. I gave her a video slideshow of her life. She thought it was pretty fun.

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Eight Is Great

Nathaniel turned 8 this year. He was pretty excited for this birthday so that he could finally go to Scouts. 

We gave him his gifts when Daddy got home from work. (He requested only one thing, we delivered) We then gave him his cake which was a crazy kind of cake, but he loved it. He had a great birthday.

A few days later we celebrated again with Eric's mom. She is always pretty good to remember the kids birthdays and to make sure we celebrate them.

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