ETA: I fixed the video link. Thanks for the heads up!
In our Church you get baptized when you are 8 years old. So you can see we had been preparing for this very special day with Ava for quite some time. Going dress shopping together, and making the invitations, planning the day and having family from far away come to celebrate this wonderful event in Ava’s life.
We didn’t do anything fancy by means of decorating… I mean who could make orange walls and blue carpet look nice? But I did rent some nice white table clothes and what little décor we did was white as well.
We had these little glass bowls on the tables with little lily flowers from my garden.
After a beautiful service, we all got together to eat and celebrate the days event. The food was perfect and the day couldn’t have been any more special for our family.
After you get baptized, there is usually a 15 minute window of time where you are getting dried off and dressed in new clothes, and while the other people wait, sometimes they will play a video, or have a testimony meeting while you wait for them to be finished. I really didn’t like the idea of either one of these things, so I went ahead and made a slideshow of Ava, from when she was a baby all the way to present time. It makes me tear up every time I watch it. She is so grown up and such a beautiful part of our family.
I’ve uploaded a copy of the video for you to see, the only problem is that the quality is very poor. Every time I tired to upload it on our dinosaur of a computer, it would crash and I would have to start the process all over again. So for now (until we can afford a new computer-haha) here it is. I hope you like it. ♥
That was a very beautiful video tribute. Do you mind sharing the Song and Artist for the Piano Medley in the background!? I love the instrumental you added to the pictures. Really emphasized the spirituality...
Posted by: Cassie P. | September 14, 2011 at 02:45 PM
That was a very beautiful video tribute. Do you mind sharing the Song and Artist for the Piano Medley in the background!? I love the instrumental you added to the pictures. Really emphasized the spirituality...
Posted by: Cassie P. | September 14, 2011 at 02:45 PM
I loved the video - I would like a copy for my library. It really was a special day and we are glad we could be a part of it.
Hugs!!
Posted by: GrandPa Coates | September 07, 2011 at 01:36 AM
Her dress is beautiful. It sounds like it was a perfect day.
Posted by: ellen patton | September 05, 2011 at 04:43 PM
Baptism looks lovely... I can't seem to watch the video... when I click to watch, it just says private video and won't play it!
Posted by: Amanda | September 05, 2011 at 04:58 AM