Camille's Baptism

An important birthday for children in the LDS church is when they turn 8. That is the age of accountability, when they start to recognize what is right and wrong, so that is when they can get baptized. Camille was very excited to get baptized and we tried our best to make it a special day for her.

We had the baptism right after lunch last Saturday, November 7th. I always get a little stressed trying to make sure everything is the way I would like it to be. I shouldn't worry so much. And now that all of my children have been baptized I won't even need to!

After the baptism, we headed up to Salt Lake City to visit the Church History Museum which has recently been renovated. We spent a lot time in the children's section which has some fun activities with the theme of "Tell Me the Stories of Jesus".

On the way to SLC, we saw this dog riding on the back of a motorcycle. Do you love the goggles?

Here is Camille with her cousin Matthew. More relatives are at the table behind her.

Here are Everett, Garrett and Talmage working with lights and translucent shapes to make designs.

After SLC, we went to Pizza Pie Cafe, which was Camille's choice for dinner. My sister's family, who came down from Idaho, joined us for the afternoon.

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