The crazy weekend

 Here's some fun pics from Little sister's baptism weekend.  It was wonderful and exhausting all at the same time.  That's the best kind of weekend though, right?  Super crazy week!  Easter Sunday I was feeling kinda yucky.  By Tuesday my sore throat hadn't gone away.  Since I have a heart murmur, I'm not supposed to take that lightly so I went to the doctor as a precaution.  To my surprise it was strep throat.  Which is weird 'cuz I have no tonsils, so I rarely get that anymore.  Perfect.  I've got a huge weekend coming up and a house full of guests coming.  Why not add strep throat, right?  Anyway.  After 24 hours on antibiotics I wasn't contagious anymore.  So I spent Thursday cleaning like crazy and spraying lysol on everything that stands still.  Just in case any of my germs lingered.  My sister got here around 5 and we had lasagne, salad and garlic bread for dinner.  We all went to bed pretty early since we had to be up really early the next day.  We were all in the Logan Temple by 8:30am.  Being in the celestial room with everyone was so beautiful.  Then we went to the sealing room.  Allie grinned like a fool the whole time she was being sealed to her parents.  It was so stinking adorable!  We had a luncheon afterward given by Court's Aunt.  Yummy pulled pork sandwiches.  Then we headed home right after so we could get everything done for little sister's baptism.  My goal was to get all the crazy stuff done Friday  night so Saturday would just be peaceful.  I think we succeeded.  We had a BBQ with hamburgers, hot dogs and brats.  Watermelon was yummy, too.  While all the guys were there we had them move the furniture around so we could fit everybody the next day.  Shaye and Scooby helped me make the chicken salad for the luncheon on Saturday, and I made frog eye salad.  Tiffany and Ashley were very sad that I hadn't made it for the BBQ that night.  Poor babies.  haha  We got to bed a little late Friday night, and up early Saturday to get ready.  Little sister's dress has pretty daisies on it, and I found a vintage bun holder with daisies on it.  She was really loving the daisy theme.  We all got ready in plenty of time, and Husband got to hold Allie for the first time.  That baby girl is Cedie all over again, it's so funny how much she looks like her mama at that age!  Shaye played the piano, Tiffany led the music, Ashley and Courtney gave the opening and closing prayers.  Uncle Jon gave the talk on baptism.  After Husband baptized her, she had to sit on my lap wrapped in her towel for about 5 minutes.  Poor thing.  The water was warm, but once she was wet she was freezing!  As usual.  After we got her dressed, I gave the talk on the Holy Ghost.  I wrapped her in a new yellow blanket to show her how The Comforter can help us.  She really likes the yellow blanket.  It was all just perfect.  We had a nice luncheon at our house afterward, and then the boys went to play basketball with Jeremy at his High School gym.  Tiffany says that's the nicest gym she's ever played in.  Husband and Brodie were on the winning side, so they were happy.  I've been told it got pretty physical between Husband and Jon, which is typical.  They love playing hard against each other!  We girls just hung out and watched movies, then went to Cafe Rio for dinner - nobody felt like cooking!  We visited with Jeremy's family for a bit when they all got back from playing basketball.  Then off to bed early again 'cuz the next day was Logan again for Allie's blessing.  I have to say, I think that Sacrament Meeting made me feel like this must be a bit of what Heaven will be like.  We took up about 3 rows, and all the kids were scattered throughout sitting next to their favorite friends/cousins.  Sam kept insisting on sitting with Uncle Brodie.  LOL Court gave Allie a beautiful blessing.  Short and so sweet.  Goodness, the spirit was just so strong! It was such a beautiful weekend full of all those happy things that come from being part of the church of Jesus Christ. 

Husband and our Great-Niece, baby Allie

 Our pretty girl in her pretty dress

 Family picture

 Daddy and little sister all dressed in white

 We kept having to tell little sister to give us her real smile.  This is what we got when I asked her to stand next to the special daisy cakes we ordered. 

I love this pic of Husband and his little girl.