Bathing Buddies

Great to be 8

On his Eighth birthday, Oshyn chose (with a great amount of enthusiasm and desire) to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  What this ultimately means is that he made a covenant, or two-way promise, with our Heavenly Father/God to take upon himself the name of Jesus Christ (try his hardest to be like Him), keep His commandments, and serve Him to the end.

Oshyn has been waiting for this day for not only days, weeks or months, but years!  He could hardly stand how excited he was to take this big step in his life.  We were so proud of him for all the efforts he took to prepare himself to learn all he could before this day.

 We invited all to come!

He wrote his testimony for the cover of his program for the day.

Grammie and Grandad gave him a nice word picture that we displayed and he received many wonderful and kind cards from family & friends.

I gave the talk on Baptism and Beau baptized him.  Then Uncle Ralph gave a talk on the Holy Ghost and Beau gave him the gift of the Holy Ghost.

 (He really wanted to match Beau and specifically asked for a matching tie.  Boy were they handsome!)

We had a nice gathering of friends and family afterwards with much help and prep from Grandma Annie, Aunt Marianne, Uncle Roger, the Panttaja's, and Uncle Chad.

Uncle Chad flew in from the East coast for this very special occasion.  To say I was surprised when he knocked on our door would be a major understatement.  MAJOR.  He will never.ever.ever. know how much that meant to me and Oshyn to have him here for that weekend.  I love my brother to the core.

We finished the day with a long journal entry that Oshyn dictated to me and I wrote.  Classic and priceless.  What a day.  I cannot believe my biggest baby is EIGHT!!

Purple People Eaters

Not sure anyone else called the team this, but what else would you call a purple team...Grapes?!

Cruz had a great Tot Soccer season (with only one stubborn, I'm-not-playing episode---one threat of Daddy not cutting his hair cured that fairly quickly).  He ran hard, got the ball, scored "hecka" goals, and was a good teammate.  I really liked his coach too.  We all enjoyed watching and cheering for Cruzer and were proud of the soccer skills that he's honing!

Handsomes

You're bound to look good on Easter when Grammie and Grandad pick out your gear!  We had a nice relaxing, Christ-centered Easter this year.  Thank you Easter Bunny for making your appearance early so we could focus on the resurrection!  The Church has put out some wonderful new Bible video clips that were awesome to watch with the little men.  Happy Easter!!

Early Easter

Eggs Dyed...CHECK!

(Can you come a day early after you go to New Zealand?)

Letter written {Easter Bunny on Saturday--new tradition}...CHECK!

Baskets found, Sees Bunny for breakfast...CHECK!

Eggs found, happy boys on a sugar high by 8am...CHECK!

Rides

We splurged on a new ride for the munchkins and bun-in-the-oven.  I love you Costco (it can also be a double stroller! Score).  I will never be stranded without being able to load up the two littles on the bike and the two big ones peddling on their own.  Now if I could just keep my bike from getting flat tires...

Just as we purchase that sweet daddy, Tyce has become a peddling maniac!  He may well be on his way to being our 3rd circus baby, riding a two-wheeler as a two-year old.  We will see, but no pressure as I have my transportation figured out :)

Drinks to go anyone?

Introducing

 Milli

and Vanilli

April Fool's

Dyeing our milk blue doesn't go over super well, but the kiddos always enjoy a table set crazy.