My Girl Got Baptized!

But first she turned twelve:

wait no, I mean eight:

and had her special breakfast (not in bed, because she woke up before mom and dad. What?! We were tired):
and opened presents


and Justin stared down some butterflies:

and went to an Activity Day Girl's activity (in which they gave her a fun candy bar card):


THEN

Grace got baptized, by her dad, on Saturday at 2pm:

And I gave a talk.



Grace's friend Sadie came with her family. These girls really love each other. Huge thanks to Sadie's dad, Steve, for the beautiful music and to Carrie, for the opening prayer. I gave Grace a choice of who she wanted to do what and she was very definite about this.

Grace with Dane and Josie. Her bestest friends (together with their parents, too) and the longest (but not as long) still in State College with us. Dane gave the best talk on baptism (totally upstaged me), Cass gave the closing prayer and Shawn was one of the ordinance witnesses—Grace was so happy about this. Thanks so much to Shawn and Cass for taking the pictures and passing out programs and giving me props. You guys are awesome! (but you already know that)


Grace had a good couple of days. Justin and I are only mildly exhausted. Our house needs a good cleaning and there is a sweet teddy bear that needs a name. All in all, not too shabby.