Tripp's baptism

Tripp was baptized in August. I can't believe my baby is old enough to get baptized. This was the pic I used on his invitations

 Tripp looking handsome on his baptism day

 We had a busy day. Tripp had a flag football game before his baptism and so did Deko. Deko and I walked in right before it started so I was grateful someone snapped this pic of them before the baptism. Randy and Tripp said the water was super hot and Tripp told me that when he came out of the water that he felt a lot happier and different.

It was a good day and we were so thankful that Tripp had such amazing support at his baptism with lots of friends and family. I may or may not have gotten a little emotional ;)

Tripp's birthday

Tripp wanted to go bowling for his 8th birthday this year, which was the end of June.

 I won a gift certificate for Groupon and ended up paying 35 cents for his birthday party which included bowling for 6 and a pizza. I love a good deal. Tripp invited his friend Gabe to party with us.

 I even beat Randy in both games we played so it was a super excellent day ;)

 Tripp requested a fruit pizza for his birthday cake 

My mom gave him a gift card to Amazon and this is what he picked out with it.

On his actual birthday he had to have surgery. Poor baby! He had to have an extra tooth removed to make room for his permanent tooth to come in. I thought he looked a little robotic with all those wires sticking to him. He was knocked out and woke up with a killer headache and grumpy attitude. 

 But the next day he went to scout camp. Raidon and I picked him up on the last day of camp. They had super hot weather the whole week.