What a Weekend!

Friday Night: Church Social--Pinewood Derby and Pie Baking Contest. Neal raced one of his cars from years past and did not place but we had a great time. Saturday: We attended the baptism and confirmation of Briana, daughter of our friends, Dave and Liz. She is eight years old and a cutie! Briana was baptized and confirmed by her father, Dave.

As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints we believe that baptism by immersion in water by one having authority is the first saving ordinance of the gospel and is necessary for someone to become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and to receive eternal salvation. We believe all who seek eternal life must follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost.

After the baptism we met back at Dave and Liz' house for lunch and conversation. Keri was able to chat with her high school jewelry teacher, who is now Dave's step-father.

Later that day we attended the sealing of Dave, Liz, Briana, and Jake in the Dallas temple. A sealing is an ordinance preformed in the temple eternally uniting a husband and wife, or children and their parents. It was a very special moment.

Following that we and a group of our friends went out for Mexican food and had a blast being kid free for the evening.

Sunday: We attended church and took it easy. We pulled out Keri's wedding dress and it still fits!...if you don't zip up the back. :-) We took lots of photos of it, in detail, so Keri could remember it and packed up the dress to send off to one of Keri's favorite charities, Brides Against Breast Cancer through the Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation. You too can ditch that space consuming wedding dress that your daughter will never wear and do some real good. See http://makingmemories.org/

Monday: Hooray! Neal had the day off! We went bargain shopping in the morning and swimming at Opa's and Oma's in the afternoon. We finished up the day with Family Home Evening. Kari, our friend, taught a great lesson about making correct and wrong choices and how that affects ours and others feelings. She emphasized that we are filled with love when we make good choices and made a fun visual for the kids. We traced them and they got to glue hearts all other themselves for good choices and black spots for wrong choices. Sophie felt pretty sure of herself and only chose hearts.