I Like to Look for Rainbows {LDS Baptism}

This little snarky kid got baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today.  He's the middle child... of 3 boys... this kid gives me a run for my money.  And I love him to death.  I am so proud of him for making the decision to be baptized.

 Our primary has been singing the song "When I am Baptized" for the last few years.  It is my children's favorite song.  The lyrics to the first verse of the song are in my free printable below.  It talks about looking for rainbows after the rain and the concept of being clean again.  I love the idea of a rainbow party and didn't think I'd ever be able to do one because I have 3 boys.  But this boy loves color (he has bright purple shoes)(and had a neon birthday party) so he loved the idea of a rainbow themed baptism luncheon... and yes, my boys love my themed parties.

Here is his invitation. I created it in Photoshop Elements.  And I made it colorful.

The invitation said the baptism luncheon would be at our home.  I realized there would be around 40 people and decided that was too many for my little home. So we decided to have it in the primary room of our church.  

I set up the tables with white table cloths with a 36" square of a color fabric in the middle.  in the middle of the fabric was a piece of scrapbook paper with rainbows printed on it.  

For centerpieces I used glass jars and vases that I had around my house.  I added ribbon, washi tape and baker's twine to embellish the jars.  I would have liked real flowers, but I couldn't find any of the right colors at Costco and I didn't want to spend a fortune.   I had a table for each color of the rainbow.    

To decorate the serving table I hung streamers in rainbow order over the chalk board.  I hung one tissue paper "cloud" with raindrops. I would have liked to have more of those, but there really wasn't any where to hang them. 

 I also laid streamers along the middle of the table.

 I got super cute colorful polka dot napkins at Walmart and forks in every color.

 I found this huge cylinder glass bowl at our local Deseret Industries for $2.    I just had to use it!  I layered fruit in rainbow order...  I love that I was excited about my cheap $2 bowl, but spent almost $30 filling the bowl with fruit.

 And you gotta love my leaning rainbow cake...

 Off to the side, I had a table with some printables.   

The small printable is a free download that you can customize in Photoshop from Oopsey Daisy.  I customized it and also changed the colors to be rainbow.

The middle printable is a free printable from LDS Printables.  I LOVE it... I love the way it looks.  But I also wanted a poster with the full lyrics to the song.

The large printable was made by yours truly:)    If you would like to download it, you can get it here.

My Son's Baptism

At the beginning of this month, my son became a member of the

  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  

I  wanted this day to be very special and spiritual.  I wanted to keep it simple.  I made the invitation in photoshop using my favorite chevron papers.

I also used photoshop to make this print for him.  I got the idea from Laura Bunker Photography and I took my own pictures.

Oopsey Daisy Blog had this great subway art that you could open in Photoshop and edit to put your own name and date.  I also changed the color to green.

I loved this printable from 'Lil Luna, so I printed about 7 of them in black and green and hung a banner of them across the food table.

The baptism got over at 10:45ish in the morning, so we had a brunch of quiche, sweet breads, donut holes, mini cinnamon rolls, bagles with cream cheese and fruit.  Brenner felt really special on his special day and I hope that he really felt the spirit.

(On a side note, because I'm in the primary presidency in my ward, I was given the assignment to speak at Brenner's baptism.  I loved this talk about the Holy Ghost being like a stoplight, so I used it for my talk).