1. Nathan's boy Jonah turned 8 this weekend and made the monumental choice to be baptized!
2. My mother came in town from LA to be a part of the event and I got to have her over at my house for a whole weekend!
As to awesomeness #1: Saturday morning we traveled down to Pleasant Grove and witnessed the main festivities. It was a very simple service. After song and prayer, one young man spoke on the importance of baptism, teaching so an 8 year old would understand, we all got to write little letters to Jonah for him to keep on his special day, another fellow spoke on the importance of the Holy Ghost, and more music and singing interspersed throughout. The best (and most important) parts were my brother getting to baptize his son and then lay his hands on Jonah's head and help him to receive the Holy Ghost. I tell you it was something special.
Awesomeness #2: You don't think of how great it is to have your mom come visit for a casual weekend when you live at such a distance from your home town.
Friday night I got to work with my mom to bake the Baptism cake. (I didn't get a picture of it, but My mom cuts a 9x14 cake into an open book shape, then frosts it like an open book and writes scripture on the top side. It's pretty dang cute if you ask me!)
Saturday after the service we all went to the Lehi Legacy Center with a pretty sweet indoor pool with a 3rd story slide, a lazy river, a hot tub, and a huge bucket that fills with water and dumps on whoever happens to be under it at random intervals. Pretty sweet if you ask me! Dale and I had fun waiting anxiously under the bucket drop, and I got to take my 4-year-old niece down the 3rd story slide for her first time! She was so brave, and to be honest, she helped me cope with my claustraphobia of going into over 100 feet of dark, enclosed space.
The rest of the time was just the usual family cooking and eating meals, trading foot and leg rubs, chatting, and playing games, but we got to do it all together.
Thanks for coming into town, Mom. And thanks for scheduling a fun weekend for us all Nathan. Dale and I really had a great time.
I love family weekends. They are all too few! But the more precious for it!
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