Preston's baptism and birthday

Preston turned 8 on March 22, 2013 and was baptized the following day, Saturday, March 23 at 4:00 pm. Both my parents and Rob's parents were there for both events. My mom and dad flew here on March 20th and stayed until the 26th, so they got to be part of several special moments for our family. Preston patiently waited until mid afternoon on his birthday to open his gifts. He got lots of fun things including a crystal growing kit from Grandma and Grandpa Prete which Granny (Sheron) helped him do after his baptism. At his baptism, both his grandmothers spoke and it was awesome. Granny shared an object lesson. She had an opaque white plastic container and put a rock in it. When the container is empty you can hear the rock moving around very clearly. When the container is full of dirt, you can't hear the rock. Similarly, when our lives are full of sin, we can't hear the spirit as we can when we are clean. While demontrating this, she asked for examples of sins people commit to fill their jars. After a few random suggestions, young Paul said, "You could lie about your age..." All the family who knows that granny insists she is 20 all burst into laughter with everyone else wondering what was going on. It was pretty funny. Anyway, the baptism was great, even though I had to drug Preston so he could get through it--he had a cold and was acting quite draggy before the baptism. Everyone came over to our house after for Tacos--Preston's favorite, and ice cream cake, thanks to Granny and Grandpa. Thank you to Ken and Tracy and their family, Grandma and Grandpa Doig and grandma Berry for coming over, as well as my mom and dad.

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