St. George Trip

After Avery's baptism we were able to head to St. George with Micah's side of the family. We usually go to Bear Lake in July, but instead for this year we decided to rent condo's in St. George because we were already all together for the baptism here in Vegas. We loved only having a two hour commute this year.

Where we stayed there were several pools to play in and a grass area for the kids to run around on. Basically it was perfect for us to be able to play together for a couple of days. Above is a picture of Aliza with her cousin Zaylie. Aliza absolutely adores her.

Abbie, Avery and their cousins spent a lot of the day making this their secret hide out behind the water fall. You had to push certain rocks in a certain order to enter. They have quite the imagination.

Each year we have a talent show at Bear Lake. To mix it up this year they had the idea to do a "Minute To Win It" game instead. Abbie was the host (which she did a great job), and you could sign up for the different games you would like to be a part of. This picture is of Lifesavers on a stick. They had to walk back and forth until only one person was left with the Lifesaver still on the stick. Aliza cheated a little by holding the stick with her hands, but you can get away with that kind of stuff when you are four years old.

Shaking the balls out of a bucket attached to your pant loop was definitely fun to watch. It made me laugh. We ended the games with a huge silly string fight.

We spent one of the days at Sand Hollow. The water was a great temperature, and the sand was fun for the kids to play in. I didn't miss the Bear Lake cold temperatures. It was a perfect day at the beach.

It looks like Aliza was making her poor cousin Tessa do all the work floating her around.

My brother in-law John was nice enough to bring his boat to do a little tubing, and they found this fun spot to do a little cliff diving. Avery was wanting to do it over and over again.
This is Avery jumping in. We had a great vacation, and thank you to Micah's parents for a fun week. We loved spending time with everyone.

Avery's Baptism

Avery was baptized on Saturday, July 2nd at our home ward here in Henderson. It was such a wonderful experience for all of us, and she was smiling from ear to ear the entire day. We had a lot of family travel in from Utah, and quite a few friends in the ward who came to see her baptism. We felt so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends who were willing to support her on this special day.

This is her baptism dress that she picked out all by herself. She did look beautiful, and I was glad that it was a great material to be wearing in our hot Summer weather. It was completely comfortable, and she loves it.

I fell so blessed to have a wonderful husband who is worthy to baptize our children. Everything went smoothly, and I think Avery was pleased with the whole day's activities.

Abbie was willing to play a piece for the program on her violin and she did an excellent job. I had a hard time finding something for her to play here in Nevada, so by the time we ordered and received it in the mail she didn't have a lot of practice time. She played a version of "Jesus Came to John the Baptist" and did a beautiful job.

I let Avery pick who did what on the program and she thought it would be fun to have all girls, so that's what we did (except for her dad and the two witnesses). They all did a great job.

We had two little photo shoots with Avery in the park by our house to get some good shots of her in her baptism dress. My wonderful sister in law came one day from St. George and did a great job taking some pictures for me. Here are just a couple of my favorites. I could post lots and lots, so I tried to limit myself to two. They are all beautiful.