Ellie's Baptism

Wow! What a busy past 2 weeks we've had. It started with Maddie's birthday on the 24th. We had her friends over and blew up our waterslide. That is an all day deal in it's self. After the party, the neighborhood kids came over to play on it while it was still up. Needless to say her birthday party didn't just go from 1-3 like it said on the invitation, it finally ended around 7:00 that night when we unplugged the slide.

Then, on the 27th we flew to LA for our anniversary to see wicked (see our other posts).

Then, on July 3rd Ellie had her 8th birthday party at the Lion House. What a fun, special birthday party! All the kids dressed up in their Sunday dresses. At the party, they learned about Brigham Young and toured the Lion House. They also got to eat ribbon sandwiches and Lemonade. We then pulled taffy like the pioneers and played a few pioneer games. At the end of the party, Ellie got to pick a porcelin doll from the shelf to keep.

On the 4th we cleaned our house and got ready for the 5th (Ellie's Baptism). Alan painted our deck and got the yard ready, while the kids and I cleaned the inside of our house. We also had some fun. We went to the movie Wall-e and went to the Holladay City firework show. Our fun neighbors across the street shuffled us all down there in their fun car "The Runt". They had it all decorated with flags and balloons etc.

On the 5th we had Ellie's baptism at 9:30 a.m. Thank you to all of you who traveled to our house to be with her on her special day! She said to me in the dressing room after she had been baptized, "Can you believe how many people are here!...And their all here for ME!!" What a special feeling! After her baptism we all came back to our house and once again blew up the waterslide.

All in all we've had a busy life this past month, but I wouldn't trade the memories for anything.