Hair fun

    I'm still a fan of doing Charlie's hair and she's almost always happy to allow me to choose the style. Here's a few of our latest hairdos. (And yes, this is the most exciting photos I had on my phone this week.)

Twists and criss-crosses.

Leaving it down, a rare treat for her and a nightmare of tangles for both of us later.

And todays up-do.

    So this really was all I had for photos this week. It's been a simple week and no ones complaining.

Greg's photos

    I neglected to take even one photo this week so I decided to see what Greg had to offer and he had some fun ones. First, we will never forget 9/11/2001 and we learned, recently, that when you can't fly your flag half-staff you can use these black ribbons so that's what we did to honor all those lost on that dreadful day 20 years ago. 

 

    And Sunday evening, while enjoying our weekly ice cream gathering, a rescue was put in place for an injured hiker so Greg got out his scope to watch the rescue process happening on the mountains north of us. Beau was happy to be grandpa's scoping partner.

 

 

That 'light' on the mountain was where the rescue was taking place.

    So there you have it, a week from Greg's perspective. I may start adding his weekly photos every once in awhile to give a bit broader view of our family fun.

Charlie’s baptism

    Charlie's baptism was definitely the highlight of our past week. It was a great day and she couldn't have been more excited to finally start her journey on the Covenant Path back to her Heavenly Father. 

Baptism Day, new scriptures and scripture bag, courtesy of mom, dad and Kayli.

 

 She can't wait to get in that font.

 

    So many came to show their love and support for Charlie and sadly we didn't get photos with everyone but here are the photos we do have. 

Charlie with Grandma and Grandpa Kmetzsch

Charlie with her immediate family and nieces.

Grandma and Grandpa B. all the way from Oregon.

 

Sisters!

    Such a great day and now we're DONE! (At least with baptism's for our kids.) We're so grateful for the gospel in our lives and only pray our children will all want to follow the teachings the gospel offers so we can be together forever. 

Babies and grandparents

    This week has been slow but ended fun and the fun is still happening. Charlie gets baptized tomorrow morning so we're having family visit and looking forward to Charlie's special event.

Silly girl.

Meeting Grandpa Jim and Grandma Elaine for the first time.

Harley meeting Aunt Marie for the first time.

    

We always welcome a rainbow.

    We're so happy grandma and grandpa/mom and dad made the long drive to be here for Charlie's special day and thrilled Marie could fly out from Texas. We wish everyone could just teleport so we could all be together, even for just a day, but we'll look forward to opportunities in the future to be together. 

    On a side note, Mark is finally a legally licensed and insured driver again so he can get himself around without bumming rides from friends and family! (What a relief to be done with all that.) He also starts a new job Tuesday that hopefully will make his financial status a little more secure as well.