Happy 8th Birthday Eva

Right after the baptism, we had a big birthday party for Eva at the house. We invited her whole class at school and church and a bunch of our friends. It was such a fun party with the kids running around and just playing together.

One of my favorite parts of the weekend was that Dave's Brother and Sister and their families were able to make it down for the weekend. They left late Friday night after work and rolled in around 1:00 am. I am so grateful that they made the trip. It was so fun to have them and the cousins to play with the whole weekend.

We've been playing a game with the grown ups called BANG! Anytime we play it we always have to wear crazy hats! Here we were with our rockin' it with our super sexy hats!

One of Dave's favorite birthday presents was these shorts/boxers his brother brought him from NASA. Unfortunately, he was encouraged to put them on. Always willing to model new clothes, Dave was more than willing to show them off!

Eva's Baptism

This weekend, February 18, 2012 Eva was baptisted. We were so excited. I've never met a kid more ready to be baptized and have such a strong understanding of what it meant. It was really cute to see.

Here she is all dressed up in her white baptism dress. The dress has "banana straps" (I guess this means they are wider than the more risky spaghetti straps). She still felt like the dress was a little "inappropriate" (who taught her that word?!?), and so I had to max out my sewing skills and make her a little white shall to cover up her shoulders.

She looked like an angel.

Since we were already taking pictures, we decided to get the whole family together. Unfortunately we were faced right into the sun. We took about 100 pics before we got one with everyone squinting in the sun and smiling at the same time.

My images of a quiet, super spiritual baptism went out the window once Dave and Eva started dancing a jig. Between their dancing and Porter in the background trying to peek into the baptismal font, I knew I was lucky to get one serious picture!

This picture of Eva and two of her really good friends totally cracks me up. I guess washing away sins doesn't include washing away all the silliness.