I Like my Birthdays

Exciting day! Samuel turned 8 last week and was baptized on Saturday, Dec. 6th. He seemed a bit nervous at home, but at the church he was jumping up and down. Then, when the spotlight was on him, he wouldn't talk, just shrug to any questions he was asked. On Sunday, the Bishop called him up to the front of the chapel and told everyone how happy Sam was to be baptized. Sam just stood there with a straight face. Everyone knows him as such a happy child. The whole congregation chuckled at his stage fright. Poor kid. :)




Simon, Sierra, Samuel and Spencer. (For some reason, Spencer decided to wear his Halloween tie.)



Sierra gave a wonderful talk. The bishop was impressed that she would say that Sam is an "awesome" brother. She talked about how at her baptism the primary president said it felt like angels were there, and we thought that the angels might include Grandma Cheri and great grandparents that have passed away.

Apparently that choked Aunt Jodi up a bit, who was on the program to sing right after the talk. I didn't even notice, because she sang beautifully as usual.

For Sam's birthday the week before, he requested a pumpkin pie instead of cake. When we said no (because we were tired of eating leftover pumpkin pie from thanksgiving) he decided on a chocolate cake instead. Instead of making a kids cake, Scott decided to make a bunt cake. Then we forgot to take candles with us to grandma and grandpa's house, so grandma marsha found us some big candles.

It ended up looking like an exotic candle holder with the glass cake stand it was on. Since I had been reading Twilight a few days before, it made me think that it would be a cake fit for vampires. Sam had a hard time blowing all of the candles out.


(It is a rare thing to catch uncle William in the background of a photo. He always avoids the camera!)