Nathan's Big Days

It's well over a month past birthdays/baptism and I haven't written about them yet, but what can I say...life's been crazy.

We pulled into town (as in, moved into Utah) on Nathan's 8th birthday-he was a trooper about traveling on his birthday. We let him open presents every so often while we drove and then that night we went out to dinner with the WHOLE family at the Brick Oven-his favorite restaurant. He said it was a good birthday-I hope it was. At least he got to have a cool party in San Diego before we left.

Two days later he was baptized. It was really neat because we had so much family there. And since we knew no one in the ward yet, it was only family other than the Bishopric representative, the Ward Mission Leader and the Primary representative.

It was really neat to have so much family:

Great Grandma and Grandpa:

 

Great Granny and Gramps:

Grandma and Grandpa:

3 of The Uncles: (Tim, Scott and Jason)

Grammy and Grandpa:

Aunt Natalie and Uncle Alex and Cousin Daniel

With a very proud mommy and daddy

And, the whole family:

Also,  Aunt Dina and Uncle Bruce (Josh's aunt and uncle) were there too but we didn't get a picture.

I wish Josh's face wasn't so dark in this picture. My photo editing software is on the other computer...

It was really special. Nathan's two Grandpas gave the talks. Grandpa A talked about Baptism and it was really cute, because Nathan kept putting his input in all through the talk. Also, he made mom and dad look good with his knowledge of the covenants he was making. Way to go Nathan!! Grandpa P talked about the gift of the Holy Ghost. He was baptized and confirmed with all of these men participating. When Nathan came up out of the water Jack just about jumped out of his chair with excitement which was neat. He said he was really feeling the spirit. 

About Nathan on his 8th birthday:

Nathan is a special guy. He has a heart of gold and wants nothing more than to be a good boy. He works hard at everything he does. He excels in school-he is a very good reader and writer. He is also very creative. He is a boy who is friendly with everyone. All of his classmates, girls and boys, seem to enjoy him. He also is willing to play with kids of all ages, which younger kids always love. He enjoys music a lot and is very talented at the piano. He also loves to draw. And he still talks a lot. Oh, and he sort of lives in another world some of the time. :) We love our Snood.