Abigaill got baptized!

On January 4th 2014, Abigail was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

We gave her her own copy of the Book of Mormon last summer and she has been working her way through it herself. She made it to the very end of 2nd Nephi.

We gave her the choice of if she wanted to get baptized and she wanted to.

Abi wanted CTR cookies and pink lemonade for the after party. So, I stayed up late making these cookies. It was hard but totally worth it when I saw the look on her face the next morning.

It was awesome to see her baptized by her dad. 

Many of our family were able to make it. It was very special.

Afterward, everyone came back to our house and had treats. 

Abi opened a few gifts.

My parents gave her a really nice triple combination with her name on it and scripture marking pencils.

Doug's parents gave her the cute pink scripture tote, tissues, bracelet, and articles of faith card.

Brent and Karen's family gave her the baptism memory book.

Dan and Steph gave her a cute card with gumballs. 

We decided to get a picture of Abi with the men that were in the circle with her, but most of them had left already. We decided to at least do it with those that were still over.

My dad, Doug and Abi, my brother in law Dan.

It was a very special day!

Baptism photo shoot

It was so hard to believe that it was time for Abi to be baptized!

She was going to be baptized on January 4th so I spent the last few days of December getting the invitations together. 

We went over to the Timpanogas temple to take pictures.

These were some of my favorites.

Night in Bethleham and gifts

That evening we were all going to my sister's ward for their Night In Bethlehem presentation.

My brother Brent and his wife Karen came over to our place first to give Abi her gift.

My kids just love their Uncle Brent.

We signed the scroll at the night in bethlehem and then gave a can of food for our taxes.

We sat on blankets on the floor and they provided dinner.

It was really great.

The next morning I took a picture of Abi with all of her gifts from us, and both parties.

Abigail's friend birthday party

Abi was so excited to be having another party..

We set out all the party games for this bigger party.

We had a station for each of the main ponies.

For Rainbow Dash it was a guess how many skittles are in the jar game..

For Pinkie Pie we did a Pinkie Pie pinata..

For Rarity we did nail polish.

For Applejack we did pin the cutie mark on Apple Jack.

The prize for the game.

For Fluttershy we designed ponies.

Here the girls are decorating their ponies.

Playing the game...

Her friend Sierra ended up on the wall behind us.

pinata time

Letting those nails dry...

While their nails were still drying we played a game where I put a pony on everyone's back and the other girls had to give them clues to try to guess who they were.

Then we did the prize pass around again.

For Twilight Sparkle we decorated bookmarks.

Then it was time for presents...

Then had cupcakes and ice cream again.

After that the girls watched the Equestria Girls movie and had fun dancing over and over to the cafeteria song.

Group picture!