Brayden's Baptism

So very proud of this boy!! He is good. Pretty much always. He is kind, helpful, creative, smart, sensitive, athletic, loving, and cute! It has been a joy and pleasure being his mom. I love you Brady.

These are so incredibly out of order, but oh well, at least I am blogging. These are all the Thomas cousins minus two, Rory was with Jeanette who was home sick, and Conner who refused to get in the shot. Have I ever mentioned how much I love the age of 3?

Here he is sitting with his Aunt Shayla. It is a good thing is so dang cute.

Jason is keeping cool under the palm tree.

OK, I really remember how much I dislike Blogger for uploading photos. I tried at least 5 times to get these pictures up before. It finally worked tonight. We were able to baptize Brayden the first weekend in June. It turned out that my entire family was able to attend, with the exception of a sick Jeanette and a Jeanette dependent baby Rory. It seldom happens that we can all get together from our various homes, but we gathered to show our love for this woman below. Our Nana Molly, as my kids call her because she had a dog named Molly, came down from Washington to see us all. We went to the mobile home park she owns to do some work and squeezed in a baptism. It was a great way to start a Saturday morning. I am grateful to Bishop Wolcott for giving his time for us, and to Glenn and Wenona for letting us use their pool. This is Nana, or Sallie Porter, and her longtime friend Wilma Lawrence at the baptism. Wilma was a neighbor to Nana when they lived in South Pasadena when my mom was a teenager. This evidently was Wilma's first baptism.

Here are some of the cousins checking out the pool that the baptism was taking place in.

All these cute little bodies. It sure was a fun weekend with 14 of the 15 Thomas cousins all together.