A Baptism, Birthdays and other Celebrations.

Our eldest grand daughter turned 8 years old in Aug.  She decided to wait to be baptized till we could be there.  How sweet and thoughtful was that?  So, the first celebration we attended was her baptism!

What a blessing to the whole family.

Love this cute family!!!  Love the support from all the family members!

Castillo cousins came up for it too!  Props for making the 2 hour drive with babies!  Thank you son!

Grand daughter J's birthday is the day after mine.  An extra special day for sure.  Aunty Elena was here to join in this celebration.

A present? For my Birthday?

A Frozen lunch box!!!

With treats in it!

Sometimes Grandma gets it right.

Elena arrived on my birthday!  The best birthday gift ever!!!

As a special welcome, our neighbor made Rod a 'special' pecan pie.  Thank You!!!  It was delicious!

We had an unexpected 'girls night'  We got to see Mannheim Steamroller.  Such Fun!

We gave our 'homecoming' sacrament talks on Dec. 14th.  Thank you to so many wonderful friends and family who came to welcome us.  We felt so loved.  We have to make time to catch up, one on one but we need to learn our phone numbers and get a place to live first. 
Sweet Super Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Scott hosed a wonderful meal afterwards.  We were thankful for the opportunity to visit a bit with some of you.
We also sang happy birthday to J, Ben and yours truly.  There was birthday cake for all!

The Stone home is the perfect party place!  Thank you yet again!!!

We were glad to see more family.

Former singles ward members got to catch up!

Some of our sweet returned Malaga missionaries drove down from Provo during finals week just to see us!  That's how you spell love!  We love you too guys!

Finally of course there was Christmas!!!

Mom let us put up some of our Spanish Nacimientos

Rod persecuted nephews

We ate and ate of course

And ate!

 

And we played with new toys!

Seeing more of the family was wonderful!

 

Modeling one of my gifts!

The greatest part of this Celebration is the gift we enjoy from our Savior!  We know more surely than every before that He Lives!  He Is the Gift to us from our loving Father in Heaven.  How thankful we are for the gift and the knowledge of the gift he makes available to us!  Let us work to share that gift through out this next year and let our hearts be filled with profound gratitude for this Gift always!