Birthdays

Before we left Gladstone Evelyn and Lydia both had birthdays.  In the hotel.   Since our house was being packed up.  Evelyn turned 7!  This is her weird face that she likes to make for photos which drives her mother crazy.

 We were so blessed with people who fed us our entire last week in Gladstone!  We have such wonderful friends!  Seriously.  After dinner with the Amai's we broke into Evelyn's birthday marble cheesecake that she picked out all by herself from the Cheesecake Shoppe.  She felt so grown up.

Lydia turned 12 and got some money and a letter from her parents telling her what gift we owed her, because her parents were lame and didn't prepare well enough for her birthday to get her a real gift.  

She had a great day nonetheless.  She had her first day in Young Women's (I really missed her in Primary) and we got to go to the Gibson's for dinner for the most incredible meal!  Crab!  Adam teaching us how to clean them. 

It was like truly amazing.

It's hard to see, but Lydia is holding up a leg and a claw to be "12."

And Kris made Lydia the most gorgeous pavlova!

We have such great friends!

An exciting part of Lydia's birthday happened later that week just before we left Australia.  She got to attend the Brisbane temple for baptisms!  How lucky that her first temple got to be Brisbane!  And getting to share that with her was a beautiful parting gift.