Caleb Blake is Baptized

We had such a nice weekend February 2-4.  We drove to SLC on Friday afternoon, checked into our hotel, then went out to dinner at Café Rio.  Then we did something we don't do very often.  We went to a movie in a movie theater.  We had heard so much about "The Greatest Showman" and wanted to see it on the big screen.

We loved it!  The story, music, dancing, and rhythm throughout were absolute genius!

Afterward, we went to Arctic Circle for milkshakes.  It was the perfect "date night."

The next morning was our grandson, Caleb's baptism at Brandon and Kim's ward in Riverton.  Brandon is Blake's brother.  Their daughter Kate and Caleb (cousins) have birthdays just a day apart, so they decided to have them share their baptismal.

There was a mix up on the time.  We had been told it started at11:30am, as had Michelle and Brian, who came up from Las Vegas for the event.  About 10:15, we got a call saying it started at 10:30.  Luckily, we had left early and were on our way.  Michelle and Brian made it in time for the baptism itself, after getting a similar call.  I led the singing and said the closing prayer.  Ken gave a beautiful talk on baptism.  The guy should be the Primary president.  He did such a good job with those kids.  The other grandparents also participated- Donna played the piano and Mark gave a talk on the Holy Ghost.  All of the cousins sang "I Love to See the Temple."

Gabe and Grandma

Grandpa with Gabe and Kenny- His arms full of boys!

Our baptism boy, Caleb with Grandma and Grandpa

How we love this boy!

The Cameron family

The picture didn't turn out well, but these are notes Gabbi wrote on the back of her program.  She has seen her mom and Grandma write down notes while people are getting a blessing, so she did that during Caleb's confirmation.  That really touched me.

After the service, we went to Brandon and Kim's house for lunch and visiting.  This is Kim and their youngest.

They have an amazing yard with a playhouse, sandbox, and chicken coup, plus lots of room to play.

This picture brought back memories of how it all started.  These four were all dating at the same time at BYU.  Blake and Brian were good friends since junior high and roommates at BYU when they dated the Hinton girls.  We decided we needed to photo shop out Gabe and it could be from those happy days.  Both couples now have four children!

Blake (fighting Gabe) and his dad, Mark- such great guys!

The Baptists?   Kate and Caleb.

I snapped a few pictures as we left.

That evening, we had planned to go out to dinner, then maybe to another movie.  But we had full court pressure from Aubrey and Matthew (Matthew is Brian's brother.  We set them up on a blind date several years ago.  Aubrey was a voice student of mine and Matthew is Brian's younger brother.  Aubrey was just moving to SLC to work, so we suggested Matthew take her out and gave him her number.  The rest is history!)  They were having a birthday party that evening for their four year old son, Nathan and invited us to join the family at their home.  We felt like party crashers, but only before we got there.  They made us feel so welcome and part of the family.  We were very glad we went.

Heavy, heavy hang over thy poor head is Prince family tradition.  This is Aubrey with their two sons, Nathan and Andrew.

That cake was so cute

Grandpa got some good pictures of me with baby William.  How I love this precious little guy.

The next morning, we attended church at Gary and Cynthia's ward in SLC (Brian's parents.)  They invited us over- along with all of their family- for a delicious Chinese feast after church.  Gary knows how to cook delicious Chinese food.  Man, was it good!

We always feel welcome and loved in the Prince home.  

Brothers: Brian and Matthew enjoying dessert.

Cynthia, her daughter, Michelle and daughter-in-law, Aubree. In the Prince family there are two Michelles and two Aubreys. This Michelle just returned from a mission to Tennessee.

We drove home, and Michelle and Brian came through St. George about an hour later on their way to Vegas.  The boys ran around the house to get energy out and we fed them scrambled eggs, toast, bacon and orange Julius before they headed on home to Vegas.  We LOVE when they come!

It was just the perfect weekend of fun, worship, friends and family!