Like we needed an excuse, but we had a few. First of all, my sister Megan swam in the Sandpoint Long Bridge Swim. It's a 1.76 mile swim across the lake, and Meg was one of over 900 swimmers. She was incredible. This video doesn't do it justice, but when the horn blew and the swimmers started piling into the lake, it was pretty amazing.
The other exciting thing that happened was my sweet nephew, Chase, got baptized in the lake. It was very, very cool! In our church you can't be baptized until you are eight, because it isn't until then that you know right from wrong. We are also baptized by immersion, just like Jesus. My brother Matt baptized Chase, on his eighth birthday. What a memory!
What I love about events like this, is how Eli and Silas can witness their older cousins making such good choices. Eli was the 12th grand kid, so by the time he turns 8 he will have seen all 11 older cousins be baptized. And later on he will be able to watch as his older cousins prepare and leave for their missions. What a great thing to be able to watch and look up to.
Besides those two events, the week at the cabin included just a whole lot of sitting around, playing, eating, swimming and other such frivolity. Jared set up a zip line, and the kids couldn't get enough of crashing into the tree at the end of it:
Megan brought her face paints, and purple, blue, red, orange and yellow spidermans ran rampant.
The lake was never still for all the jumping in, throwing in, and falling in that happened.
Silas wiled away his time splashing in the foot baths and such with the younger cousins:
I love the picture of the baptism! I'd love copies!
ReplyDeletelove every one of these pictures!!! (especially chloe diving)
ReplyDeletei too need a copie of the baptism pic. i love the aug long weekend!
shann