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grace had a fun time celebrating allie's birthday at her frozen party!

and...we got to meet elsa!!! and sing with her and dance with her and hug her!!!

we are lovin' these summer days!

popsicles, swimming, coloring

these two boys love their puppies!!!

she's so pretty!

i was just given these sanuks and they are COMFORTABLE!!!

carter's silly show...he's such a mess!

and, that was just the opening act to yet another performance of...you guessed it!  let it go!

we went to the zoo?

so, we went to the zoo to try to squeeze in one last trip before our membership expired.  and, well...apparently, this whole summer thang had us a bit confused on the date.  we showed up to the zoo a day late.  oops!!!  we went to the park instead.  and we got ice cream!  

hAppY sUmmEr

After our last day of school, we kicked off our summer with a little PAR-TAY!!!

hAppY sUmmEr!!!

we have a kindergarten graduate

Grace had her kindergarten graduation and oh my word, she surprised us so much!!!  She smiled and sang and spoke into the microphone and knew all of her parts and did I mention that she spoke into the microphone...in front of people...like, a lot of people!  I was amazed.

She said, "I also want to be a teacher.  Since I love math, I think I'll make it my specialty.  I have some combinations class.  Please read and answer as I call on you."  Then, she called on her students and held up her giant flashcards.  "Good job students, you all pass."

That wasn't even all.  Later, she dressed up like a bride and said, "I want to marry a boy just like my dad."  And of course, the whole audience replied with an "awwwwww."  She went on to sing, with the other mommies, "Thank you God for my family..."    

I mean, seriously, who is this girl?

She also received her "ticket to first grade."

I know that I'm doing a lot of bragging, but it's because I am so proud and surprised by her!  One more thing, she also won the reading contest in her class!

This is so funny and scary and exciting and sad to me...in just 12 fast years, I'll be watching her walk across this stage again!

Mimi and Poppa got to come!

So did, Grandpa and Grandma!

We are super proud of our little graduate!

Grace's Salvation & Baptism

Way back in the spring of 2013, Grace was riding home from school and she announced to John that she was going to heaven.  He asked her how she knew that and she said "because during naptime, I turned from my yucky sins and followed Jesus."  We were super excited and super cautious because she was so young.  We just kept the conversation going for the next few months to make sure that she truly understood repentance and salvation.  Anytime that salvation would come up, Grace would always say that she was a Christian because she asked Jesus into her heart during naptime.  Finally, in the fall, after much prayer, we had a peace and confidence that she did actually understand salvation and she made a profession of faith one Sunday morning.  The next step was baptism.  Since our church is meeting in a community center right now, we don't have a baptismal.  We baptize in a horse trough outside.  After waiting for warm and dry weather, Grace was finally able to be baptized! 

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

{John 3:16}

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

{John 3:17}

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. {Romans 6:4}

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

{2 Corinthians 5:17}