A weekend of family and a baptism.

Aunt Kristin made Luke this peanut butter sandwich.  Holy peanut butter.  He loved it.  Love that smile.

Just hanging around like Spiderman.

Ella climbed up on this box all by herself.  It was a big deal :)

Andrew beat Grandma M. in a legit arm wrestle. lol. 

Grandpa H. pulled out Andrew’s tooth that had been hanging for a month. 

Andrew received the Responsibility Character Trait Award in his class and was honored in an assembly.

Friday night we went to Mike and Tanya’s for dinner.  Grandpa M. came into town later that night. 

Ella kept licking Darrin’s face instead of giving him kisses.  It was hilarious.

Saturday was a super busy day full of soccer, soccer parties, and Andrew’s baptism. 

Josh’s game was at 10:30.  All Grandparents and Aunt Kristin came to watch.  It was a tough game that they lost.  But they played super hard, and Josh scored at least one goal. 

Then we headed over to one of Josh’s teammate’s house for pizza and trophies.  Josh had such a wonderful team this season.  They were all great boys.  Hopefully we will see a lot of them again on teams in the future.

At 1pm Andrew had his soccer game.  His team played well and won.

  

During his game it rained on and off.  Some of us are more used to the rain than others.  lol.

We rushed home and got all ready for the baptism and then headed to the church. 

Lots of Andrew’s family was involved in the program.  Aunt Kristin led the music, Grandma H. played the piano, Grandpa H. spoke on baptism, and Grandma M. said the closing prayer.

It was a special day.  And we are proud of Andrew and his decision to be baptized. 

After the baptism, the family all came over for dinner.  Since we were hardly home to prepare any food, we had Panda Express-- one of a Andrew’s favorite meals. 

While we were eating Andrew started choking on some chicken.  He came over to me not being able to breathe.  I hit his back a few times but quickly realized that wasn’t doing anything.  So I did the Heimlich maneuver two times and out came the chicken.  It was super scary.  Andrew doesn’t like to be the center of attention, so we all kinda pretended that it wasn’t that big of a deal.  But I was pretty shaken up by it.  I’m glad it all worked out okay.

Sunday morning all the kids ended up in our room, because people we sleeping in all rooms of the house.  It made me want to sing, there were three in the bed and the litte one said…

After church we went to Chad and Julie’s for dinner. 

We had fun chatting, eating, and playing.

 

Monday Aunt Kristin headed back home.  The girls (Kristin, me, mom, and Ella) went out to lunch at Panera before she left.  So glad she could come!  My kids adore her.

Darrin took the day off, so he could hang out with his parents.  They went out to lunch, watched Duck Dynasty (Darrin forced them haha), and had a Dr. Mario contest.  Grandma H. won.

After dinner we went back over to Chad and Julie’s for FHE.  We had a lesson on being thankful and then made marshmallow pops.  Everyone loved them!  Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Hancock for being super fun!

Jenna has been the only girl cousin her age around here for a long time.  Ella is finally old enough to go play in Jenna’s room.  They both love it.  Jenna loves showing her girl stuff, and Ella loves the attention.  And I love the break!

Ella also loves it when the big kids take her out to the garage to see the kitties.

Grandma Morris got to stay until Thursday.  Hopefully she had fun.  We were busy with life, and she just had to come along for the ride: flu shots, pta meetings, volunteering, scouts, well check appointments, etc. 

Grandma was doing her exercises, and Ella joined in.  lol.

Playing ball with Grandma.

Whew!  It was a whirlwind of family and fun for about 10 days!  We are grateful for everyone that came to support Andrew on his special day!  Thanks for coming!!  We love you all.