Wednesday, August 5, 2015

It's Great to be Eight!

 Hyrum had a very busy birthday due to the Cub Scout camp being on his birthday.  I almost postponed his and I birthday time out together because he was tired and emotional by the time we got home.  But I also knew that we had a VERY busy day on Saturday and I didn't want him to feel that his birthday wasn't important.

So, I took him to the mall so that we could watch the Minions movie together.  I must really love him because I'm weird and I don't like cartoons.  Very rarely do I actually want to watch a cartoon.  It has to be pretty darn funny for me to like it (Emperor's New Groove or The Lego Movie type of funny).  And the Minions movie wasn't that funny in my opinion but I love this boy and he was so cute watching the film.
But first I wanted to rent this motorized pig for him.  Everytime we go to the mall, he wants to ride one of these.  His birthday was the perfect time for him to try it for the first time!  He is in front of the candy machines because he put in 25 cents and got 2 gumballs out of it.  He was pretty proud of himself.
 The majority of the time he just chased this train.
The following day was his baptism. He was so excited for this.  I was nervous that he wouldn't have a good turnout because we didn't have any family coming.  But our wonderful ward stepped up, as well as some friends of ours. 
We had a busy day after that as we went to a Foster Care event and then to say goodbye to Stephen and Holly's family (they are moving to South Carolina).  We didn't end up getting home until after midnight.  I hope all that we were busy with that day didn't diminish the feeling of how important Hyrum's decision was to be baptized.  Because I am so very proud of him.  This was HIS decision to follow Jesus Christ.

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