Eight is great

 this kid lucked out this year as his birthday fell on a friday.

which we all know means weekend-long birthday!

woot woot!

his one request was to go to "Bullwinkles."

so we let him invite two friends to go with him on his actual birthday.

yeeeah, i know.

spence had a friend show up too!

 this place is a mini version of heaven for these boys.

 i would rather gouge my eyes out with a red hot poker

 with his baptism on saturday, we did a mini photo shoot beforehand...

aaaand the big day!

the theme was "come unto christ"...

if you can have a baptism theme, that is.

some family that came up for the special day...

then we fed them because baptisms make you hungry.

i don't know if flowers are too girly for a boy baptism,

but i don't care. i do what i want.

they were white.

after all the food prep, i realized i could never be a caterer...

that, and i had no steam left to make a cake.

enter costco.

he requested chocolate, and this is what they had.

(note to self: never get a costco cake again unless feeding 500 people.)

those balloon blobs of frosting were seriously as big as his head.

sugar comas are awesome.

a Thompson/Godard tradition is to gift the baptized child an embossed set of scriptures.

he was so thrilled to get these.

(he has been using my old seminary ones for over a year)

sunday, he impressed me by putting them to use with grandpa.

he was asking all kinds of questions about them and the stories inside.

such a special memory.

thanks for trekking out here for the baptism grandma and grandpa!

and thanks to all the family and friends that came

to be a part of this special memory for this eight year-old!

it was such a magical day!

 

 oh, and here is the video i put together and we shared at the baptism!
Come Unto Christ!