Maddux's Baptism

  As I was saying, the day after we moved in we hit the road for our nephew Maddux's baptism in St. George, Utah. We drove to Pendleton, Oregon, and then the next day we made it to Layton, Utah.  Before heading on down south to St. George we stopped at Temple Square, so we could visit my mission.  It was a pretty cold day, and we actually had followed a lot of snow plows through Idaho and Utah the previous day. Despite the cold we did okay though.  Avery insisted on touching all the water in the many, many fountains we visited that day.

  We were fortunate enough to have all of my sisters there for the baptism, as well as my parents.  (We missed Adam and Angie of course.) Avery and Harper really enjoyed seeing almost all of their cousins on my side. (Except for Ashlyn who was performing most amazingly at her percussion competition.) The last night that we were there we went over to Phil and Heather's and we watched part of  Tangled on an outdoor screen in their backyard, and made some scrumptious S'mores.  

  On our way back home we were lucky enough to see Daryl's cousin Jenny and her husband Mike and their two girls Sophie and Addie.  We went with them to see The Lorax. Harper's first movie in the theater.   That little girl is a born couch potato.  She did pretty good sitting on our laps during the movie. We were glad to see Jenny and Mike before we left Utah, and we will get your blanket back to you one of these days. 

Harper feeling the magic of Temple Square.

Avery looking especially rag muffin like on Temple Square.

Addison and Harper looking super cute.

I got a lot of really cute pictures of Addison.  They were playing soccer in Phil and Heather's backyard.

This is pretty much everyone except for Dad who was taking the picture and Alex is behind the post and Addison is beside her.

Somehow DeAnna got in the picture with all the nieces and nephews.  Harper, Maddux, Addison, Aidan, DeAnna, and Avery.

Here's Maddux. I can't believe he's eight already.