It's Great to be 8 part 3

After the baptism we all met up at Molcajetes restaurant to celebrate the event. 

It was a blast!

Then we went home and Arieanna got to open gifts from those who gave her some.

 

She got a journal from her Sunday school teacher to record her thoughts about her baptism and money and toys!

Thanks soo much to family and friends who made her day extra special.  She will remember this day because of you!

We all love you Arieanna and are glad that you made such a wise decision to be baptized into Heavenly Fathers church!

It's Great to be 8 part 2

So my dear sister Tammy helped me out with an invite and so did my friend Ash.  I had originally asked my sis but at the last minute didn't think she would have time...so I asked Ash if she could whip one up and this is what she did...

She did a great job! Then my sis Tammy ended up having enough time after all and came up with this...

She did a great job too.  So we ended up giving half and half out to those we invited!

Saturday came and Arieanna was soo nervous, anxious and excited about being baptized.

Loading up in the car to go to the church.

By the way, this is what we did with her hair.  In the back, I braided up three cornrows to meet in the middle with the curls so it would hold up well after she got out. It did just that, all I had to do after she got out was blot her hair with a towel and straighten her bangs real quick and voila!

We showed up to the church early and took family pics before!

There was actually 3 girls getting baptized but I couldn't find the other one anywhere.  But this is Arieanna and Elsie! What beautiful little girls!

Arieanna and Daddy right before being baptized.

And after the program we were able to get all three girls together to snap a shot!

Elsie, Kate, Arieanna

What Pretty little girls!

More to come.....

It's Great to be 8 part 1

Arieanna turned the big 8 on March 2, 2012! What a big year this is for her as she was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! She was anticipating this day for a long while now and it finally became reality for her. She decided that she wanted a "rainbow" theme for it cause the rainbow reminds her of God's promise that He made us!  

 We first started her birthday off with a "rainbow" hairstyle but instead of red we used pink! 

Then, we made some "rainbow" cupcakes for her class at school.  Let me tell you, this was a very time consuming thing when it came to making the actual cupcake itself.  You see, there are six different colors in the rainbow and the batter was thick...so each color that I put into the tin I had to spread out with my finger (don't worry, I washed my hands).  Just think, I had to do this 35 times.  But it was well worth it;-) So this is what the cupcake looked like without the frosting and decor. Isn't it pretty!

I was going to just frost the top and be done with them but oh no...Arieanna wanted a little bit more to it so this is what we came up with!

The kids really enjoyed them especially when they saw that the cupcake was a rainbow!

Getting ready to pass them out!

Arieanna, as her classmates sing Happy Birthday!

Then when she got home, Manuel and I sang Happy Birthday and gave her her gift.

We got her her own set of scriptures with an adorable scripture bag...and inside the bag was a baptism necklace, bracelet and CTR ring! She was super ecstatic!

 It says CTR on the side;-)

Alayna even made her a little card! What a sweet sister she is!

Since her birthday fell on a Friday this year, her baptism wasn't until Saturday.  So we went ahead and decided that we would just do something simple and sweet on Friday and then do more with the family and friends on Saturday!

More on the baptism in the next post...........