Baptizing Anne!

This December our dear Anne-girl turned Eight years old! Anne had a great birthday filled with family, friends, cupcakes, and presents. However, the best part of her birthday celebrations occurred ten days after her actual birthday. Anne was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She had been looking forward to her baptism the whole year and was thrilled the time was finally here!

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Anne's Sweet Smile

(she wore the baptism dress that I and my sisters all wore. my Mom made it using lace leftover from making her wedding dress.)

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Anne's not afraid to show her true feelings. She's pretty stoked about her baptism!

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Aunt Mermaid braided Anne's hair so it wouldn't float to the top. Anne insisted on pigtails.

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Profile of Anne

(please note the earrings. they stayed in the whole afternoon!!)

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Anne & Her Dad are ready to go!

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Even though we took many precautions, we had to baptize Anne twice. One witness (my Dad) said she was fine, but the other witness (my brother-in-law) said her foot popped up. So Hubby baptized her again, just to be sure. Anne was laughing all through the second baptism. She was excited that she would have a good story to tell. Goofy kid!

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Newest Member of our Ward with her adoring parents

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Anne and her gal-pals .
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My Sweet Anne-girl in her Confirmation dress