Ben turned eight on Feb. 17th and was baptized on Feb. 18th 2012. We had both grandparents and four cousins come into town (Brooklyn, Emmet, Brig and Brady). All 19 of us stayed at our home, you might argue 20 because we had Jake in the corner of the family room on skype all weekend. Jake even joined us for family prayer and scripture study and ate dinner with us. It was another fun and crazy weekend at the Hawkins home. Ben 's baptism was so special. He is such a quite and sweet boy, but he has such a strong spirit. When he got baptized he was so happy and I could feel how strong his spirit was. The only way I can explain it is thunderous. Which is different than his disposition. He will someday be a strong, noble, valiant missionary. I will always remember that feeling or glimps I got to see of him that day. We are so proud of Ben. Chase had surgery on his arm in January and got his cast off a day before the baptism, he isn't supposed lift anything with it so they had to practice baptizing him with basically one arm. Chase said it was easy because Ben is so light and under water he weighs nothing. After the baptism we went to our traditional place to eat Old Country Buffett or as my kids call it Old Crunchy Duvet. Sunday morning Chase had to speak in another ward in the stake so we all packed up and went and listened to him. It was a nice weekend and was not as crazy as I had expected.
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i am glad that i got to read your blog today. you have an amazing way of sharing what is going on in your families lives. i miss and love you all
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