The highlight of December was probably the 12th. It was Jaina's 8th birthday, and her baptism, and since we had a bunch of family in town and were having a party, we celebrated Shawn's 2nd birthday as well. A few weeks beforehand we had taken some nice pictures of her in her white dress (eBay, friends, and it was beautiful!) for some announcements.
The morning of her 8th birthday we did the traditional birthday number pancakes for both, and got ready for the baptism (about 2 pm?) and for having everyone over. I felt pretty icky, but thankfully wasn't so bad I couldn't make it through the day.
It was so fun to have just her baptism (vs a stake one, which had already happened for the month) and to have most of our family there. The only sad part was that Emily and Jason were planning to be there, and had tried to leave the morning only to encounter lots of snow that was making the roads worse and worse. After about an hour, for safety, they had to turn back. :-( Aunt Ashley also ended up really sick and couldn't make it down. (and of course David and Nicole and family were in Kentucky...) We really missed all of them, but were glad they stayed safe, and tried to get well, and yeah... Grandma Weech gave the talk on baptism and Grandpa Weech filled in for Aunt Emily and gave a talk on the Holy Ghost. Jaina was very excited to have so many people there to support her. (And yes, those were the best family pictures we could pull off...)
Somehow we don't have a picture of Jaina's cheesecakes (they weren't much to look at - they turned out kinda lumpy...maybe on someone else's phone?) but here is the one I made for Shawn. He was very impressed with it (He was way into minions, or as he called them all, "Bob-bob") and even more impressed when he got to eat it. I think he had three pieces. Between his milk and corn sensitivities, he didn't often get any of whatever dessert was going around. They both got some really fun presents. Jaina loved all of hers, and Shawn picked different days afterwards to love each of his. But his favorite that afternoon was the Little People Disneyland set. He had also recently gotten excited about Mickey Mouse. :) (Oh, and we also made our announcement that afternoon - he and his cousin were supposed to have matching shirts that we would send them in wearing, but it didn't quite work out that way. :) )
Jeremy had to rush off to Stake Priesthood Training or something similar, and the older 3 kids were going to the martial arts dojo for a fun "Polar Express" pajama party that evening from 6-9. Shawn and I grabbed a special birthday dinner for him - his favorite, french fries, and we wrapped up a very long, very fun day. :)
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