Palmer's Baptism Day

Palmer turned 8 in August and has been excitedly waiting for the day when he could be baptized. It finally happened last Saturday. It was such a special day in our family as Palmer is our oldest child and first one to be baptized.



Our family before the baptism.
We were so grateful for our families and the support they gave us and Palmer on this special day. This is the Palmer side of the family.  My mom, sisters and I sang a musical number for the baptism, which was fun.  I don't get to sing with them enough.
The Nelson side of the family.
Palmer's church teacher.  She is so great!
Our bishop and first counselor. They couldn't be any more wonderful than they are. They gave Palmer a special gift of his own half gallon of ice cream to celebrate his baptism. To say he is "excited" about it would be a huge understatement. I don't know that he is planning on sharing the ice cream with ANYONE.
Our friends Maria and Cemryn. We love these two so much, they traveled so far to be with Palmer on this special day.
Our friend Kristen is so great.  We just love this girl (not to mention she is always there to help with getting things ready for the parties.  I don't know what I would do without her!  Thanks Kris!)

Lincoln wasn't too into all of the pictures he had to pose for on this day...

I really wanted this to be a special day.  We had invited the family over to our house for a lunch following the baptism and I had so many ideas of what I wanted to do, but in the end I tried to just do it simple-ish. I used mostly white with accents of navy and green. I put sprays of flowers all over the tables with Palmer's baptism pictures and Articles of Faith framed (I just bought the frames from a thrift store and spray painted them white. I also bought the vases from a thrift store and just ordered white daisies, carnations and baby's breath from a florist).

If you want to download the Articles of Faith I made here is the link. I am laminating the Articles of the Faith I used on the tables and binding them together so Palmer can use them to help him memorize them, which he is excited to do so he can earn his Faith in God award. 

This was in the center of our buffet table.


I bought some small pictures of Jesus and tied them to the ribbons on the vases of flowers.
I made this little book and had it bound at Kinkos for everyone to write either their testimony or a message to Palmer for this special day.
We are putting some of his pictures in the book as well.
It was so fun to be with all of the family.

I always love to see Josh with his sisters. Josh is the youngest child and only boy to three older sisters. Josh sure loves these gals and his wonderful mom.

Kristen gave him this neat Baptism book and he has read it non-stop.  The other night I found that he was using the light from his DS to stay up late reading it. 

This was as wonderful of a day as I had always imagined it would be.  Palmer just beamed with a huge smile on his face all day.. I can't believe he is already 8 years old! We are excited that Lincoln only has to wait a year for his baptism (as is he).