Emilee's Baptism • August 6, 2011

Part of the reason for our trip to Utah was to see our second grandchild, Emilee, baptized.  Because Kim and Matthew were moving to North Carolina and had left their house in Arizona, they had arranged to have the baptism at her sister's ward.

They did it an interesting way: every family had a room, with their own program, then took turns filing down the hall to the baptismal font.

 

Kim had made up a beautiful program, which Emilee shared with her great-grandfather Sessions.

Emilee with her great-grandparents (my parents), before the baptism.

 

Great-grandmother Sessions feeds Danielle before it all started.

And then we took some candid photos outside after it was over.

The whole family.

Just the girls.  Kim and her side of the family had prepared a nice series of things to nibble on afterwards, with a lovely decorated cake, done by Emilee's Grandmother Karen (Kim's mother).  Then Dave and I changed clothes, hopped in the car and drove towards home. Home in California, that is.

Summer Trips 2011

 

I learned long ago that we're all very busy all of the time--unless you're incarcerated or something.  But past that little annoyance of modern life--that of feeling like the To Do List adds things in the night, or that feeling that a young mother has that she's being pecked to death by ducks and endless questions, or that a surge of extra tasks that keeps her from even writing on that To Do list--we did do some different things that kept us occupied for 11 days of being away from the blog: we actually went on vacation.  A domestic vacation.  So here we are standing in front of a valley in Yellowstone National Park.

Here we are again. 

The first place we went to was a family reunion for three days (of fun and serious crazy).  Then we went to Yellowstone National Park for three days (of beauty and wonder and a wifi-and-cellphone-free zone), then three days of being with family again.  I will be posting some of these experiences on the blog, but since I'm busy right now with getting stuff ready for school--and climbing Mt. Laundry--it won't necessarily be too timely.  Some family things I'll post here--other things I'll post on the occasionalpiece.blogspot blog.