Madison was baptized on February 7th! She has been anticipating this day for years and she said it was everything she hoped it would be. Terrence was on the east coast for 3 weeks prior to the baptism and flew home the night before. He walked in the door at 1:20 a.m. and had to be at the church in the morning for the baptism at 8:30. He was just slightly tired. 
Madison was so happy all day long.
We forgot to take our traditional baptism picture after the baptism, so this is the day after at church. They welcomed Madison as a new member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the bishop presented her with a hard cover Book of Mormon which Terrence and I had written our testimonies in.
Between having her Daddy finally be home, being baptized and having so many visitors (some of which traveled hundreds of miles to be here) just for her.....it was a pretty exciting day.
We had so much support from our families and are so lucky to have so many of them close.
Aunt Trista came from Colorado and brought her two oldest kiddos with her. This is Emily (8) and the little one is Aunt Andrea's daughter Avaree (4)
Our bishop gave the analogy of baptism being like an old school NINTENDO. When you mess up, you just hit the reset button and start the game over. Madison is so excited to take the sacrament every Sunday now so she can hit her reset button. I think I should invite my bishop to teach our FHE every week. He really knows how to teach principles in a way kids can easily understand them. It feels so weird to have two kids that are old enough to have been baptized. We love our little family and are so grateful to have been blessed with so much....even if having kids this old means we also have a few gray hairs and a few more creases.
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She is so adorable. And so mature looking. I love that last sentence. Creases...hahaha.
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