Bailey's Baptism and A New Tradition

 

August 1, 2009

San Juan Stake Center Building

Bailey was baptized last Saturday!  He has been so excited and waiting until he turned 8 for quite a while now.  A few weeks ago, we bought him his own scriptures, which he also loves.  He was able to pick them out, along with the carrying case.  We had lots of family and friends join us, which made Bailey break out in his sheepish grin. Our friend, Brian Sprague is the high councilor over Stake baptisms.  It was nice to have him put the entire thing together.  His daughter Wendy played the piano and she was so amazing.  We will probably have her start teaching Emma piano in the next few years.  Even though we had to get to the Church by 9 a.m. to set up for the lunch, etc... all the children were great. We had lunch afterward at the Church building and I forgot to take pictures!  

Then, later that day....

Around 5 p.m., I was avoiding cleaning the house, laying on the bed that probably had clothes that needed to be folded on it.  Ben came into the room and I said "I want to be at the beach"  He said "Well, then let's go!"  Umm.... Well, in one hour, we found a beach, the time of sunset, packed up five kids including two sleeping twins who wanted bottles, and a potty training two year old.  We had to move fast since this logically is crazy.  We made it to the beach after two different drive thrus for dinner.  (Kids don't like In and Out and we do!)  It was cold, foggy and almost dark, but the kids were so excited.  Nathan held his pee the entire way there, crazy kid (we had put him in a pull up just in case).  Now why can't he hold it on the two second drive home from Church, I ask you?!  

 

Almost there!  It was a great foggy (August?! evening)

 

Kids in the back, ready to go to the beach!

 

Nathan wanting to see the picture as soon as I took it (the age of digital!)

 

  

The boys, walking down to the beach.

 

Bundled up! Why did I wear a skirt?!

Well, after 45 minutes of playing Red Light Green Light and Mother May I, we were done.  We had brought the laptop, but both forgot a movie.  So we promised the kids we would stop and buy one.  Well, after driving around for a while, with a two year old who's legs were going up and down trying to hold in his pee, we looked up and saw...

 

I guess we had landed in the Castro district.  Thankfully, they have very nice Safeways.  Ben took Nathan in the bathroom, but could not finish getting a movie and some water.  I guess when a two year old is holding it, the second you take off the pull up and put them on the toilet, um, I was not there, but I am guessing you could compare it to a fire hose gone crazy.  Ben eventually went back in, got a movie for now just Bailey since Emma had passed out in the back.  We fed some crying twins a bottle, tucked them in and started back on our merry way.  Luckily, my husband is quite the navigator and has a weird GPS in his head and we were back on the freeway very soon.  We got home around midnight, tucked some sandy kids in bed with the promise they could shower in the morning!

We decided this will be our new baptism day tradition.  Although, all the rest of the children have winter birthdays, so the location might have to be adjusted.  When you do these spur of the moment things, they can end in disaster quite often.  But all of us had fun, and it was a great way to end the summer.