Grandpa's Visit and Heidi's Ballet Recital

 My dad came up to see Heidi's ballet recital, spend his birthday with us, and spend lots of time with the kids. Heidi had lots off people come to watch her recital. Besides my dad, both of Austin's parents, his brother Brent and his wife Lexi and their son came. Austin stayed home with all of our kids since Natalie and Trevor had already seen her dress rehearsal and Asher and Leif weren't really interested in going and it would have cost too much to drag them all along.

 The kids had lots of fun playing with my dad's dog Bella and learning to shoot. My dad gave Leif his Christmas present really early- a compound bow. My dad spent quite a bit of time working with Leif using his new bow, but he also spent time teaching Heidi and Trevor how to shoot the other simple bow. Asher can shoot the compound bow as well, but his arms are a little too long for it, so he doesn't do it much.

 My dad requested chocolate waffles for breakfast on his birthday, but he hardly ate any. The kids had fun helping me make carrot cupcakes too, but he didn't really eat those either. We did catch him eating all the extra cream cheese frosting later though ;)

My dad sent Austin and I on a date together to celebrate my birthday on the evening of his birthday and he had fun hanging out with the kids all night.

Heidi's Baptism

 

 Heidi was baptized this weekend! Heidi has been so excited to get baptized and told me in the morning as we were getting ready that she couldn't believe the time had already come and that she has been waiting since she was four. Our stake center is just across the street from the Fort Collins temple, so we stopped there first to get some photos of her in the dress I made her. It has rained so much this year, but luckily it wasn't raining too much while we took her pictures.

 

 Austin performed the baptism and her Grandpa Brent did the confirmation. It was a small event with just our family and a couple friends Heidi had asked to give a talk and play the piano, but we were thankful that many of our family members were able to make it.

After the baptism we went to a little French creperie that I like to take the kids to when we do one-on-one time. They put us out in the covered patio because it was a pretty big party.

Trevor was a bit upset when he learned he couldn't have a crepe because of the dairy, but we found him a BLT sandwich he could have and all the other kids were begging for bites after their crepes we gone, so he thought he had gotten the best lunch of all.

The kids ended up playing at Grandma and Grandpa's house for a few hours with all their cousins (and Cedar's new puppy) so Heidi had a great day!