Iris' baptism

This post is all about my little Irisita. 

My inately sweet and kind girl who turned 8 on June 2nd. 

I love this picture because it captures Iris perfectly.....even down the the toe lifting up when she gets nervous with the attention all on her (taking a picture of just her).

My mom flew in before the baptism and brought some games which included some crossword pads....which means there MUST be a competition to see who is the fastest of the kids. (For the record, Camden was.)

Wynn gets an allergic reaction that swells when she gets bit by a mosquito. Lucky for GRAMS (unlucky for Wynn), Wynn happened to get a mosquito bite on her eyelid which made it easy for my mom to tell the twins apart.

I think she was just faking it to get extra loves and sympathy from Grams.

DEFINITELY faking it...

And I don't want to brag or anything with a whole my-baby-is-so-advanced attitude and all but HOW many babies that just turned 1 do YOU know that can wink!!!!! #minecan

Mom and I enjoyed pushing the littles on the swings at the park, while all the other kids were somewhere in the forest behind us, in a creek, I think jumping into it?

Bronson and Camden have a pretty nice gig right now. They went to the Pro at the golf course and asked if they could be put to work in exchange for free golf. So now my two boys are the BEST range-ball-picker-uppers in St. Louis!!!! Anyway, they get a free golf cart with it too, but they are too young to drive it. Enter Grams......SHE can drive the golf cart and they won't have to walk the whole course. So I dropped them off. See ya Mom!

Only to pick them up later to find out that my boys ended up pranking my Mom the whole time. #sheesh #icanttakethemanywhere

Iris' BIG day arrived. 

She was ready, prepared and had even finished reading the entire Book of Mormon that week.

My angel.....

She is wearing a dress our good friend Patti Hintze made that all her granddaughters and daughters were baptized in. I loved it.

With Grams

The idea of the whole family in a picture was sooooo not happening.

(I feel like we were being photobombed....)

That's better.

Iris asked Brooks to baptize her. Here they are all ready.

We told her she could pick RA to baptize her and she quickly said, "NO! RA might try to drown me like he does in the pool!"😂

#tearyeyedgrandpa

Grandma was so sweet to fill in on the piano for us!

And everyone in the audience was great to fill in on the whole watching-all-my-kids-for-me thing.

#greatesthometeacher

Iris and Paxton (a friend from church) were baptized on the same day.

I teared up during her baptism....which kinda caught me off guard. But Iris has the sweetest little spirit. It's how she CAME to us. Pure, never wanting to hurt anyone and kinder than most. It was the neatest thing.

Even though she's probably the only person that has ever gotten baptized in her shoes in that baptismal font. hahaha. She simply said, "I FORGOT!"

After her baptism.....with the Grandma and RA

Then we raced home, ate a giant sub before we rushed to Bronson's first of two baseball games.

My mom left the next morning and with RA and Grandma still with us, there was definitely more golfing for the older ones and mini-golf for the younger ones.

And swimming. Did I mention Iris does NOT like to be in the pool the same time as RA?!?!?! Well, I was SHOCKED because she actually allowed him to give her swimming tips!

THEN he went over to the boys and play the lets-drown-the-grandkids-while-laughing game.

However, the older two boys were ALMOST an even battle for him.

RA yells, "BREATHE" before he dunks Camden.

Aleeya absolutely loves this man.

It was nice to have RA and Grandma around when my friend let us go pick peaches off her trees!

And Pat is so sweet always giving me foot massages. 💛

Good bye Grandma and RA!!!!!

Now you can go home and enjoy some peace and quiet!

For Iris' birthday party she asked for a fox piñata......which made it so the "What does the fox say?" song was constantly being sung in my house. That doesn't get old at all! #photobombingbaby

Iris even made her own birthday hat pictured above!!!! (part of me feels proud that they are so resourceful when they do stuff like that, and the other part thinks, "darn, guess I missed that!")

Iris wanted brownies, with ice cream and M&Ms on top. She was SO thrilled about how it turned out, especially with the Trolls.

Iris and her friends at her pool-party.

On her actual birthday we celebrated Iris as a family where she got a very large stuffed cow (that girl LOVES stuffed animals......Brooks hates it. haha)

She kept getting mad that Emerson and Bronson were getting in her picture with the cow, so of COURSE they had to lean in closer.......older-annoying-brother style. (Iris and Bronson are twins)

Aaaaaaaaaand her junkbox.......and no, the mustard wasn't a part of it.:)

HAPPY SPECIALEST OF BIRTHDAYS IRIS!!!!!