{"id":3534,"date":"2010-06-21T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2010-06-21T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:25:10","slug":"fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/index.php\/fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Father’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a pretty big day! <\/p>\n

My girls were both baptized:<\/p>\n

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Younger daughter - before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Younger daughter - coming out of the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Older daughter - before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Older daughter - after<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our church practices a believer’s baptism, so when the girls were born, we dedicated them to the Lord. This means that we intended to raise them up to know Jesus, but they needed to make the decision for themselves that they would accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior. Within the past year, both girls have made that decision and recently began talking about getting baptized as an outward sign of what has happened in their hearts. We invited both sets of grandparents to come for the weekend and witness their baptisms. We also had a set of “adopted” grandparents (who live here locally) come as well. <\/p>\n

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My in-laws on the left, my parents on the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And finally, my older daughter decided she was ready to get her ears pierced! My parents came with us to Claire’s, on their way out of town. My daughter was a real trooper, but I think it hurt worse than she thought it would! Fortunately, she had asked to have them both done at the same time! You can see the manager had quite a bit of experience. My daughter asked her how many piercings she had, and she said 25 in each ear<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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OUCH!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Now we're happy!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oh, and we also got my husband a new electric razor that he had been needing! <\/p>\n

Hope you all had a great weekend too! I have a long list of soapy things to do this week, so I better get started…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a pretty big day! My girls were both baptized: Our church practices a believer’s baptism, so when the girls were born, we dedicated them to the Lord. This means that we intended to raise them up to know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t