Sarah's Baptism

Our sweet Sarah Elizabeth was baptized on March 5th 2011.  Greg and I are so proud of all she did to get to this point.  We spent some very spacial Family Home Evenings really focusing on exactly what she was working towards and wanted her to understand the important commitments she was about to make with her Heavenly Father.

It has been a true testimony builder for me to watch her work up to this day.  She took it very seriously and truly wanted to be baptized.

At the beginning of the year our stake put on a nice evening for all the kids who were going to be baptized this year.  They talked about the promises they would be making and the promises that our Heavenly Father would make to her.  They also talked about the Holy Ghost and how to recognize it and what an incredible blessing it is to have Him in our lives.  I know for me my life is blessed daily from the companionship of the Holy Ghost.  I rely on Him to help me through my day as I take care of my family.  I am very grateful for Him in my life.

At the end of the night all the kids were given a small package with some wonderful things in it to help  prepare them for their baptism.  One of my favorite things was a list of words that were connected to baptism.  We did a Family Home Evening with them and had each of the kids pull out a word from a bag and they had to explain how that word was connected to baptism.

It was a really fun thing to do.  It was a helpful reminder for the older kids.  I posted them up on the pantry door to help us continue to think about our promises.  The boys are really excited to get baptized and know so much because of all the lessons and really enjoyed watching Sarah get baptized.

One very excited little girl!

Megan was so excited for Sarah!  She was every involved and eager to help Sarah out.

Love this incredibly Man!  He is a wonderful example to me and the kids and I feel so very blessed to be married to Him. 

Sarah truly adores her Dad!

Beautiful!!

It is crazy to think that 3 of my 5 children have been baptized.  Our family has been truly blessed by this children and their beautiful examples they are to me.  I love being their Mom and am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for giving me this opportunity to raise these special child.

Dad's 60th Birthday weekend!

What a weekend!!  I feel so very blessed to have been able to go and spend one of the most memorable weekend with my siblings and parents!


Dad turned 60 in Feb and us kids and Mom thought it would AWESOME to all fly out and surprise our Dad.


We were all giddy for months and Mom was quite the player.  She managed to keep it from Dad for a few months.  We all thought she would cave, but she didn't.




Kenny, Jenny, Eve and I met in Denver and then went on to COLD MN. Beth met us at the airport and we all stuffed ourselves ( we had a lot of stuff) into Beth van, then off to the Mall of America!!  We were all so excited but I think Jenny wins the prize for being the most excited!!  We thought she was going to jump through a window!

 This is some of us in Denver!!

 Waiting to take off for MN.

 Coming into MN......very flat and a lot of snow.

 Best travler out of all of us!!  Evie, I will travel with you any time!

 At the Mall of America trying to figure out how to breath!!!  I was soooooo coooooold!!!!!

Poor Kenny was in shock by the time we mad it into the mall, and then theres Beth who doesn't even have a coat on, she is true MN, WI through and through!!

Our plan was to surprise Dad coming out of a store but He made things very difficult!!  He wandered from store to store!! Mom finally called him and asked where he was.  He was suppose to be "in" the store, but to our surprise he was sitting outside of the store and trying to figure out what these weird people were doing that looked a lot like his kids!! 


We finally got to him:

It was so fun to see Him and to be there for this awesome day!!

Went to lunch after the big surprise.

It was so fun to be home!!  There was so much snow and very cold, just how the winters were when I was growing up.  I sound like an old person, just like someone who just turned 60!!

Kenny was having a hard tine with the cold!!  Arizona has gotten to him!

My cute house!

Dad very delicious birthday cake!!  I didn't have to share my pice with any one!!  That was the beauty of going on this trip all by my self!!  It was heaven!  Thanks Greg, you are the best husband!!

OH, there's the birthday boy!

Here we all are!!  It's amazing to look at this picture and see where we have all gone.