Isaac's baptism

Ok. these pictures go out of order b/c i can't for the life of me get them to rearrange.

Isaac got to share his big day with his fav cousin, Sam (whose baptism we had to hurry off to when we were done with Isaac's). These two are 3 days apart, born on each other's due dates, and shared blessing days and now baptism days and we're looking forward to a double missionary farewell in 11 years. These two, best buddies from the womb.

All of Isaac's cousin support.

We had our hands full trying to keep all these jokesters quiet for an hour,

impossible (and we're even short 6 in this picture!)

Isaac was baptized on August 8, 2009 by his dad (Who is 2 for 2 in getting overcome with emotion while performing this ordinance for his children:) He has been waiting for this day for some time as he is the last of his crew of friends to take the plunge. He was so excited to wear a matching tie with Matt and since he got his first "real tie" a few months ago, has learned to tie them himself and refuses to go back to zipper ties (as you see eli sporting here)

We had a little scare that our family was going to be in charge of the musical number

HA!! Can you imagine us giving that a shot?

But was relieved to discover a mix up on assignments where we (when i say we, i mean "I") got relegated to offer up the "talk on baptism" instead. Speeches aren't my forte, but is much more doable than a musical number.