Becky and Zaki came the night before Tommy's baptism for a cousin sleepover. Becky brought a game called Coconuts, which all of the kids were able to play. It was a very noisy, fun game night.
You put a coconut in the monkey's hand and catapult it over the monkey's head, trying to land in a bucket. If your coconut lands in a bucket in the center or one already a player has, you get the bucket. First person to get 6 buckets wins.
Samson won! He was so happy to show me his winning monkey! Katie...not so much.
Then Becky got out Pie Face. Katie and Tommy had played it with her before, but this was Dancy's first time and she was so excited!
She loved getting creamed every time!
Katie dressed up all fancy to go to Tommy's baptism.
{Tommy and Shad}
{Dancy, Thora, Shad, Tommy, me, Samson, Katie}
Dancy's nails were painted black like Black Widow, so she wanted those to be seen. And Thora was just being Thora...until Ruth arrived.
With Vern and Pris
Ruth and Coltyn arrived!
The baptism was fine. It was successful. I feel like I've been cold and unfeeling about it, but the whole process was exhausting and stressful to me, more so than I think it should have been. Could be because it was our first one and we had to figure everything out, could be the time of the year with all of summer's craziness, could be life circumstances of trying to put together a big life change. Either way, it reminded me of why I didn't want a wedding and ultimately...I'm highly in favor of a Vegas-style baptistry being set up.
We hosted lunch for all the family who came, played games with Vern, Pris, Ruth, and Coltyn, then went out to Golden Corral for dinner. Shad's family always had a tradition of going to Casa Bonita after baptisms, but...that's gross. And in Denver.
