GREAT Weekend!!!!!!!

What a wonderful weekend we had!!!!! It started on Thursday when I went to pick up my brother Steve, who flew in from Texas. I hadn't seen him in 7 years!

We had a lot of fun! We drove over to my mom's house in Oak Harbor and stopped at Deception Pass on the way. I was shocked by the brother I knew growing up who had no fear, is now scared of heights and kept saying "Just don't look down, don't look down". He said he doesn't like roller coasters anymore either - what???? Who is this guy?

While my brother visited with my mom at her house, we went camping at Deception Pass. We got to break in our new tent (which I forgot to get a picture of). We took our little dingy out with the trolling motor and set the crab pot. After we got our rope stolen and our crab poached we reset and caught 3 crab and ate them for dinner on Friday night. We set it out again over night and picked up 5 crab Saturday morning to take home! YUM YUM YUM!!!! I LOVE CRAB!!!
At the boat launch there were two Pirate Ships there, Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftan. It was so awesome to check them out!!!
Delvin and Aidan did some more fishing. . .they didn't catch any fish, but they did get a good catch! HA HA

Mason is really close to walking now. . .he stands himself up in the middle of anywhere and will squat down to pick up toys and then just stand up a play with them. He's attempted to take a step, but hasn't quite done that yet. Here he had picked up Uncle Steve's shoe to play with. We knew it was going to be a good weekend, but it got even better when we got a surprise visit from Delvin's Dad! His brother-in-law passed away and he flew into Oregon for the funeral, so Delvin and Aidan drove down to pick him up so he could be with us for Aidan's Special Day!!!!

Aidan turned 8 years old and chose to be baptized!!!! It was a BIG day! We had a big family dinner and then headed out to the church. The baptism was wonderful. Grandma played her violin and the piano and gave a talk about baptism. Uncle Steve gave the opening prayer, Delvin performed the baptism (Uncles Steve and David were the witnesses), I gave a talk about the Holy Ghost, Grandpa gave the blessing to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and Uncle David gave the closing prayer. There were lots of friends and family there and the Spirit was so strong. It was a beautiful experience and I'm so grateful that Aidan made the choice to follow the Lords example and participate in these sacred ordinances!
Here's the family after the baptism.


After the baptism we went back to the house for a birthday celebration. I made Aidan's favorite "Perfectly Chocolate, Chocolate Cake". He opened presents and played with his cousins and had a great time.
It was a wonderful weekend and I'm very tired today and trying to recover, but feel such peace about everything that happened. It was by far the best weekend of the summer and the best weekend I can remember in many years!

I'll try to figure out how to add links to more pics soon - stay tuned!