Thanksgiving, Ivy's Birthday and Baptism

Everybody came to our place for Thanksgiving this year. It was great! Uncle Marc got sick and didn't make it, but everyone else was here--even my dad. Ivy turned 8 on Saturday and was baptized that day so it was a good way to get everyone to California to see our new place.

In the backyard with Grandma

Surrounding uncle Bryan

The baptism was great. Edie gave a talk on baptism that was unbelievable. She is so sweet and such a natural in front of people-she got up there and owned it. My super talented Ivy played the piano and sang "When I am Baptized". She did it perfectly, of course. It was so cute. She is amazing! My mom was suddenly super sick with food poisoning or something right before and couldn't come (we were all very sad about that) so Al had to read her talk on the Holy Ghost, but she did a good job. All the kids were super naughty and loud and there weren't enough adults to balance out the crazy, but other than that it was great! Ivy said it was perfect, and that's all that matters. It was good.