Birthday/Baptism/Birthday

Dave blowing out the candles on his BIRTHDAY SHAKE... (we were a little "caked out")

ELLIE and baby "MATALIE"

This weekend has been lots of fun! First Ellie's birthday Wednesday, then Matt and Grammie G drove down Thursday. Friday Matt and I spent the whole day getting his medical and dental part of his mission papers done! YEA! That was a great relief to have done! And the VERY best part of that day was when we went to the orthopedist and he said that Matt's knee is 100% healed and he gave him clearance for ANY type of activity and to serve a mission. This has been something we have been so worried about for so long and it was just a huge relief to know that it is all good. He passed his physical and dental exams with flying colors and his papers are now DONE!! YEA! He can't wait til April 16th to call Pres. Tew and say push the SEND button! :) YEE HAW!!

Friday night we went to an AWESOME birthday party for Spencer complete with spiderman cake, spiderman decorations and spiderman games!! It was awesome! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPENCE!!

Saturday was Ellie's baptism. This was a wonderful day. It really was. We just had such a great feeling all day and knew that Ellie was making the best choice ever. Matt baptized her (per her request) and then Dave confirmed her. We just had a wonderful day and really appreciated all the friends and family that came to support her. It was great to have her Grandpa Bertoch drive down and back Saturday to be there and also Grammie Gibson, Rich & Heidi and Nikki & Jordan. We had a great time together all weekend.

AND THEN today (Sunday) is Dave's birthday!! YEA DAVE! Just HAD to laugh out loud watching Dave turn all shades of red while his Mom got up in our ward and announced over the pulpit in her testimony that it was "DAVID's BIRTHDAY TODAY!!" ha ha ha ha ha!!!

But seriously, we just love and appreciate Dave so much! We woke up early today and gave him his present so he could wear them to church! :) New Dress shoes... awesome! The kids and I had fun last night going to ECCO at the outlet malls to buy them while he and Grammie went shopping for lamps for our living room. We finished the night with a movie party watching Audrey Hepburn in "Sabrina" and eating homemade orange julius' and popcorn. THE BEST!!

I feel very blessed this week. I am a lucky person to have such a great family and so many reasons to celebrate!!!