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My baby girl turned 8 last Monday. On Saturday, she was baptized. This was a very special and exciting day for her. This is a very important event in the life of person who is in the LDS faith. It is spiritual occasion and filled with tears of joy and happiness.  She wore a beautiful white dress and white shoes. This is to symbolize the purity. When you are baptized, all sins are erased and you are clean. White represents that serenity.   One of my friends made this cake for Lyndee. It was so delicious. Under the fondant, it was a white cake with a raspberry filling layer.  We are getting ready to go to the church for it but we had to do a photoshoot.  Her grandma had this towel made for her on this special day. At Lyndee's baptism, she had to be baptized twice because her feet came up. It was a good experience and the girl after her had it done too. Lyndee was presented in front of the congregration and she also bore her simple testimony of

 Yesterday, Brayden played out in the snow and decided to use the snow brick maker. He lined our sidewalk with the bricks. Today, we went over to my brother's house and he pulled the kids on a sled behind the four wheeler. I am not going to say how I had him pulled me and I wrecked and fell on a pile or two of rocks.

New Year's Eve was Lyndee's 8th birthday. I can believe how time is flying. She is getting older as I am getting older too. Makes me sad! For Lyndee's special day, she chose her favorites for dinner. She wanted just top ramen noodles. Not sure why but she loves them! I also made homemade chicken nuggets. My kids were quite impressed. Clay had three helpings of them. We even had them for leftovers for lunch the next day.   Lyndee's cake was triple chocolate fudge with a chocolate marshmallow frosting. As I was frosting it, she mentioned to me in passing that I could draw a cat in the frosting. So I did...just for my girl. Did I tell you that right now she is obsessed with cats. She loves our cat we got this summer and tries to hold it and love on it anytime she gets.   Lyndee is an extremely picky eater.  I think it has to do with textures as well. But..she gobbled down all her food tonight.  Take two: the first shot of her blowing the candles out was blurr