This sweet angel of mine was baptized today. We couldn't be more proud of her decision. She got a very special white dress, a crown of flowers, and some new scriptures with her name printed on the cover. Emily Herb, a family friend, helped take some family pictures in the morning and she took some sweet baptism pictures of Brooke. The baptism was at 12:30pm. Lots of families from our ward were there as well as her best friends Kate Schofield and Lucy Humphries. Nani & Grandpa came all the way from Oklahoma for her special day too. She shared her baptism program with Bryce Atkinson & David Saumweber, 2 boys in our ward. For the musical number all three of them sang "When I Am Baptized". It was beautiful. Brooke was baptized after Bryce. Her foot came up so she was baptized twice. :) She looked so sweet and pure coming up out of that water and as I was helping her change out of her wet clothes and back into her baptism dress she looked up at me with her innocent big brown eyes and told me "I feel so clean". I hugged her tight and will always remember that tender moment. Daddy did a great job with her confirmation blessing and I'm so happy that she now has the gift of the Holy Ghost with her as her constant companion. Tracie helped make some special baptism sugar cookies for refreshments that were 8's and CTR cookies. They were by far the favorite treat and all the kids were practically fighting over getting one of the sugar cookies instead of the other options. It was a beautiful day. The next day at church both Brooke and I bore our testimonies during sacrament meeting. She was a little nervous so she wrote hers in her journal and read it out loud. Oh, I'm so proud of this girl or mine. I love her so much. Now if I could only get her to be a little less boy crazy ...
While we were taking pictures in Compton Gardens a little boy rode by on his bike. Brooke's eyes got big and the biggest smile crossed her face. "Mom!", "That was Payton!!" The Payton from last year? "Yes! My crush from last year that moved to Rogers AND he saw me in my pretty white dress!" She grinned and grinned and he rode by again and smiled at her. I laughed to myself.
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So beautiful. She is precious.
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