JORDYN'S BAPTISM

I like my birthdays, ev’ry one;
Each brings a greater joy to me.
But I can’t wait until I’m eight.
For then I’ll be baptized, you see.

 To be baptized as Jesus was
By one who holds the priesthood true
And thus obey God’s holy laws
Is just the thing I want to do.

When we are baptized we make covenants (promises) with Heavenly Father. We promise to obey his commandments, forgive others, and follow Jesus Christ. In return, he accepts us into the Church and promises to guide and help us.

Now that Jordyn is 8 years old, she made the choice to be Baptized and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Saturday Jan 28 we were privileged to attend Jordyn's Baptism.

Jordyn was excited dressed in her baptismal Jump suit.

She had lots of family in attendance. She had a simple program before she went into the font.

After she was baptised by her Uncle Chris, she was confirmed and received the Gift of the Holy Ghost by her grandfather,

Jordyn was a happy girl.

Jordyn and her Daddy (Tom)

CONGRATULATIONS JORDYN! AUNT MARY IS PROUD OF YOU!!

A LATE DECEMBER BIRTHDAY PARTY

Jordyn and I both have birthdays in December. Jordyn turned 8 this year. We still hadn't had time to celebrate our birthdays , so last night we finally had a birthday party. Tom's friend Carla joined us and Tom made homemade pizza. Homemade pizza has been a tradition since we were kids. Mom made pizza 4 times a year.

Jordyn and Hunter each got to make their own small pizzas.

After pizza Jordyn could hardly wait to open her presents.

She was very happy with her presents. (and better at posing)

After a couple of hands of Uno attack we had some birthday cake and death by chocolate ice cream.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JORDYN!!

NEW YEARS EVE 12/31/2011

After birthdays we moved into our New Years Eve celebration. Most of the family went to Randy's annual rocket shoot and were tired, so tonight's party was very quiet and low key.
We played a few hands of Uno Reflex before the adults left to relax and work on craft projects.

Buddy joined us, but didn't like being outside alone with fireworks going off all around.

 Almost everyone had early church so we decided to do fireworks early.

There were tons of sparklers. Kids of all ages had fun with them.

There were a few of the big fire works left for midnight.

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!

DECEMBER BIRTHDAY PARTY

On New Years Eve we gathered again at Party Central (Aunt Karen's House), this time to celebrate December Birthdays. We celebrated 3 of the 7 birthdays for this month.

Kendall is 29 this year.

Pam is 41.

I am older than both of them.

THANKS TO ALL THAT CAME TO THE PARTY & AND THANKS FOR THE GIFTS!!

FAMILY CHRISTMAS PARTY 12/23/11 GIFTS AND HANGING OUT

The final part of the evening was exchanging gifts among the adults.

Aunt Karen put boxes around the room where gifts for each family group could be placed. In the past we would put everything under the tree and then we would have 15 or 20 family members all trying to hand out gifts at the same time. The box idea is genious, it makes this final portion of the evening much calmer.

These are some of the gifts we recieved this year. I didn't takes pictures of all of them.

We hung out and visited and had a good time throughout the evening

Eventually all the fun of the evening took its toll.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MY FAMILY AND THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE GIFTS!!