Baptism Pictures

 My little niece was getting baptized which means photo-shoot from her favorite Aunt Cara. 

 Since we had four baptisms on Tom's side this year I thought I would take all three 

(that live here) along and do a photo-shoot together.  

I could die from the cuteness in these photo's.  

Seriously.  

I need to get my act together and get these printed for my MIL before she sees them here on the blog. 

(these are supposed to be a surprise for her)

Are you with me on the cuteness factor?  

Look at sweet Joseph putting his arms around his cousins. 

 Awww!

 Such little sweeties.

I love that they are so close in age.

(only a few months apart)

We are missing our cousin Mac who lives in MO that also got baptized this year.

These two.  

They have been best friends since birth.

I know they were besties in Heaven too.  

They love eachother like sisters - without all the fighting.

 Miss Amberly.  My sweet little angel girl♥

London, Congratulations on getting baptized into 

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  

We Love You!

Abby's Baptism Day

 We had a special program at the baptism.   Amberly got to pick the whole program.  The entire bishopric was there, all our friends and family came to support Amberly to make this a very special day.  I loved that we had so many of our family helping.  Sariah (cousin) played the violin prelude music, McKenna (cousin) played the piano for the eight year old cousin song of I Am A Child Of God (we have 6 cousins who are 8 or will be turning 8 all within a year!), Matt and Kurt (uncles) gave the talks on Baptism and the Holy Ghost.  Grandma Margie and Uncle Joey gave the prayers, Aunt Joni led the singing.  It was a family affair and I loved every single minute of it. It's always very emotional when we have these sweet baptisms because my parents aren't here.  But we know they are able to be with us on these very special days and can feel them near us.  We love them and miss them and are so thankful to know that we are a forever family♥

I can not believe my baby is eight!  She was just learning to crawl yesterday!  Time goes by way to fast.  We were so proud of Amberly choosing to get baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  She was beaming with excitement and could not keep that darling smile off her sweet face.

 Here we are as a family.  Cassidy is pretty proud that she only has 1 1/2 inches until she is as tall as I am.  I had to wear my heels so I would at least be as tall as she was on this day. 

 I somehow lucked out and was offered a sub in the shape of an eight!  I went in and was ordering some party subs and the girl at the counter heard it was for a baptism and said, "we can make the sandwich into the shape on an eight!"  Oh boy you better believe I jumped on that one!  How awesome is this four foot "8" sandwich?!

 

Amberly got her very own scriptures with her name on them, a special baptism towel

and a CD with songs to help her remember this very special day.  

Thank you family and friends who came and helped and loved us on Amberly's baptism day.  

We ♥ you!

Just a Few

I always wished I could fly and this is a perfect picture

of how I always imagined it would be!

I haven't been getting my camera out and I have missed it. Friday and Saturday I went a little crazy and was shooting just about everything. I told Cassidy that everyone is going to think I like Abby better than her because Abby lets me take her picture (so I have a lot) and she doesn't. She didn't seem to care. I think she's at that age - please help me!

So here are "just a few" of my favorites from this weekend. I didn't edit them - sorry. I just am not good at that yet - so these are real and raw!

This is Tom's brother Gary and family on Nephi's Baptism Day.

Don't they look like they are having so much fun?

This little cutie is our nephew Ammon and

he has the bluest eyes in a family of all browns just like me!

Amberly and London two cute little cousins

who hopefully keep their sweet friendship that they have now.