Anna's Baptism

Anna was baptized this past weekend.  She turned 8 in August, just after moving to our new home.  In our new ward here they do stake baptisms once a month.  Other places we've lived they've been individual.  So there was only one opportunity per month and for various reasons we weren't able to have her baptism until December.  Here's Anna just before heading to the stake center for the baptism.

We got there about 45 minutes early and easily found the baptism clothes and got situated.

Here are our five ready to go.  Anna was excited.

Matthew and Anna.  Matthew imparted all his knowledge about being baptized to help Anna out and not feel too nervous.  Such a nice brother.

Emma was upset about something.

Both sets of grandparents were able to come for the baptism.  And I can't believe I didn't get any pictures of Anna with the grandparents!  Photography fail!  I guess I was preoccupied with other things.  All the grandparents helped to wrangle our other children during the baptism.  Including this little lady and her attitude.

Anna and Scott!

The baptism was nice.  We were told we didn't need to do anything for the program since its a stake baptism, but the weekend before I got an email saying we needed to provide a pianist, a talk, a prayer and a music conductor.  My mom played the piano, I conducted, Grandpa Guptill said the prayer and Matthew gave the talk.  Matthew did a great job on his talk too.  It was all very nice.  One other kid (a boy from another ward) was being baptized as well.  I'm so glad our parents were able to come for this special day.

After the baptism we went home and got changed then went to lunch.

I wanted a picture of the Gilroy garlic sign on the wall at the restaurant.  Superior.  :)

And look I did get a picture of Grandpa Keeler.

And here's Grant with Pa2/Grandpa Guptill.

There was some consternation at lunch about Emma's ice cream.  I think we were just trying to lick the drips and she was mad about it.   We got to see her angry face.  It was a wonderful eating out experience.  Six adults to five children keeps everyone happy.  :)  Well, almost everyone.  Emma was happy most of the time.

It was a beautiful baptism day!  Love you, Anna!