Zach Baptism and Party Day #3
Today was Zach’s big baptism day. He has been looking forward to this day for a long time and couldn’t wait! He got up really early and wanted to know if it was time yet! 🙂 We had to laugh about that one. We hope he is that excited to be good all the time going forward! We met at the church in Salmon, and Zach was baptized and confirmed at 11. All the family was there and it was a wonderful experience!
The spirit was really strong there and we had the whole family there with us. We missed having our ward friends and neighbors there with us, but they all understood when we told them that Zach would be baptized out West. It’s really amazing how fast time flies! We only have one left to baptize. It seems like only yesterday that little Sarah was baptized, and now it’s about 6 weeks before she goes out to Provo to BYU. Sniff sniff… 🙁
After Zach’s baptism, we had a big family party out at Scott and Carla’s. Greg was there and took family pictures of everyone and they turned out really great!
We then had a huge milk can meal that everyone loved. Along with that, we had a ton of other food, and also had a birthday celebration for Zach and Austin.
A bunch of the kids finished out the afternoon riding on Carla’s and Scott’s horses. Other than being baptized, that was Zach’s favorite part of the day. He just loved it!
Tonight we saw some of the craziest things ever. We went to the annual Salmon demolition derby. We were all excited, because the family had entered a car in the event. The event started off with insane kids on motorcycles trying to pop balloons on each other’s heads. I can’t even write about how crazy it was.
After that, it was time for the main event and the first heat of the demolition derby started. Our car came out and we cheered like crazy.
It got rammed all over the place and had to be pulled off (not a very big car)…
It kept coming back out and coming back out after work on it, and it made it to the final heat! We couldn’t believe it. The thing wouldn’t quit! It was by far the smallest car out there for the final heat and obviously wouldn’t win, but it was fun. During the “halftime” show, another group of crazy kids, this time on 4-wheelers, came out and did the balloon popping thing again! This was even more dangerous than on the motorcycles…
The cars then came out, and after it was all over, our car wouldn’t even run any more. The axle was broken down into the ground, and it was smashed to bits.
What a crazy night! I’m sure we’ll talk about this day for many years to come. 🙂
