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Saturday, March 1, 2008

The Baptism of HunterEve

HunterEve in the baptism dress she designed. She looked like an angel.
Her daddy baptized and confirmed her. Her Grandpa Adams, Papa Mike, Uncle John, Uncle Sam, David Hulbert, Bo Smith, Ron Mangles, Bishop Stock, Tom Tew and Joe Stock all participated in confirming her a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and giving her the Gift of the Holy Ghost.

Cousin Chris supported Hunty on her big day. He even offered the closing prayer! He's so handsome in his white shirt and tie.

Grammy sang If the Savior Stood Beside Me for Hunty.
Mommy gave a talk on the Gift of the Holy Ghost and Michael and papa spoke on Baptism.

Hunty had so many friends and family come to support her. They all made us feel so loved.

Fresh out of the waters of baptism, Hunty was glowing. Her mommy showed her her reflection in the mirror and explained to her that she she was clean and pure and perfect. Her Heavenly Father is so proud of her. Her mom and dad are so proud of her.

Kevin's baptizing Hunter was so sweet. He was so nervous he had to start over again once. It was a privilege to see Hunty's daddy baptize her and to see the love he has for her in his eyes.

Hunty's grandma Adams came from Austin just to see Hunty get baptized.
She played the piano too.

Bishop Stock with Hunty. He conducted the baptism and welcomed her to our ward.

Amy Larpenter is the Primary president. We were so excited she was there and welcomed Hunty into Primary.

Grammy made this glorious cake for Hunty. It's a white cake with strawberry filling and a cherry cake with whipped cherry filling. SO delicious! Hunter chose this sculpture to be on top of the cake, "Happiness." Her grandma painted one of the bluebirds of happiness white to represent the Spirit and remind Hunty that we are only truely happy when we are doing what's right and following the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

Aunt Sally was a huge help, as always. We're so glad she came :).

Grandpa Adams balanced his two littlest grandbabies,
Elle and James - born only two weeks apart.

Hunty's first set of scriptures! Woohoo!

Oh man did we have fun! Cousins Chris, Enoch, Feilding and James joined Michael in some craziness.

So sweet. So clean and pure.

We were so grateful to have had so much of our family near for this special day. Grammy and Papa, Uncle Greg, Aunt Jenn, Scottie, Aunt Sally, Christopher, Aunt Sandy, Brett, Nathanial and Roland, Aunt Alicia, Grandpa and Grandma Adams, Uncle John, Aunt Arien, Sage, Feilding, Enoch, James, and Uncle Sam. Not to mention Hunty's mom and dad and brother Michael and sister Elle were there too. Those who could not come in person were felt in spirit.

Hunty and cousin Sage doing some late night cousin bonding.

A gift to Hunty from her mommy.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Happy 8th Birthday Huntie!!

This is Huntie BEFORE earrings, AFTER earrings and one day later WITH all her Voisin GIRLS (Sandy, Jenn, Huntie, Grammy, Sally and mom). We had such a blast hanging out with Huntie at the mall!
Her mom and dad took her to the mall on her birthday to get her ears pierced and out to eat. The very next day, the Voisin girls took her to the mall for a girl's night out! We all had so much fun!

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day 2008

Voisin Family Valentine's 2008
Michael 4, Huntie 7 11/12, Emily, Elle 17 months, Kevin


Mardi Gras 2008

Our Mardi Gras princess.

A serious hazard of watching the parade is the flying beads thrown by float riders. Poor Ellie here was the victim of a hit and run, well hit and ride. Can you see the bead welts? Poor baby.

Kevin and David Hulbert made it their mission to collect Moon Pies from the float riders for dear Coleen Hulbert. So they made this fabulous sign taunting the riders, who totally took the bait and pummeled piles of Moon Pies at them.

Yeesss! Coleen enjoys the fruits of their labor.

We saw Bambi, a good friend from Motivatit, riding on a float. She loaded Elle with loot - beads, toys, stuffed animals, etc.

Ahhh, the spoils of war, or in this case Mardi Gras.


Another Mardi Gras come and gone.


The History of Mardi Gras



Mardi Gras came to New Orleans through its French heritage in 1699. Early explorers celebrated this French Holiday on the banks of the Mississippi River. Throughout the years, Orleanians have added to the celebration by establishing krewes (organizations) which host parades and balls. Carnival quickly became an exciting holiday for both children and adults.
Mardi Gras means "Fat Tuesday" and of course is celebrated on that day of the week. The date can fall between February 3 and March 9 depending on the Lunar calendar, used by the Catholic Church to determine the date of Easter. Mardi Gras is always 47 days before Easter Sunday.

The official colors for Mardi Gras are purple, green, and gold. These colors were chosen in 1872 by the King of Carnival, Rex. He chose these colors to stand for the following:

Purple represents justice
green stands for faith
gold stands for power

The Mardi Gras season begins on January 6 and continues until Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. On the Christian calendar, the twelfth day after Christmas is known as "Epiphany", "Twelfth Night", or "Kings Day." It is the day the gift-bearing Magi visited the baby Jesus, and is celebrated with its own unique rituals.

Kevin Heads to China and Korea


Kevin traveled to CHINA and KOREA this month! He spent two weeks in China and another 4 days in Korea. He's participated in an Ag Leadership Seminar group at LSU for the last two years. As a capstone for their course, they travel to a foreign country to learn about industry and agriculture there (not to mention squeeze in a good bit of sightseeing). The entire time while Kevin was gone we had brief instant messaging sessions to keep connected. He LOVED China and was so excited to bring the entire family there one day, until . . . he went to Korea. Yes, Korea more that surpassed his affinity towards China. Korea was a world apart and more elegant and full of grace than he could have imagined. Dad, Arien and Shannon probably already know all this, but Kevin is also now sold on the wonderfulness of Korea.
Check out more pcitures at http://mikedanna.wordpress.com/ or on Kevin's facebook account.

He brought us back some great loot! We were mostly glad to just have him home.

A Sunny Day in January





Christmas 2007

Michael 4, Elle 15 months, HunterEve 7.

Christmas morning! I can't believe it! It's just so amazing!

Pretty much the iPod turned on Christmas day and never turned off.

Michael's OWN Heroscape game. This was really the best Christmas ever!

We're not sure if she loves the farm toy more of the pink chair. Both seem to be immeasureable successes as they kept her attention for more that 5 minutes.

Santa brought Kevin Legos for Christmas! Ok, they are Michael's. No really, they are.

Gorgeous earrings and necklace from MotherA.