Anniversary Thoughts About My Baptism

Be sure to click on this photo to get the closer view of this. Somehow when I downloaded this photo it had too much white space and took over the picture. I didn't know how to crop it, and you will have to make up the difference to see it better...

This rare photo is the picture taken the Sunday after my baptism the night before. Hank and Tanise were only 3/12 and two years old at the time in March 1968. Hank Sr. had a beard and hadn't shaved it off yet. Elder Randy Neiffenneggar thought that was the neatest thing to have baptized someone with a beard no less.

I remember Hank & Tanise were inseparable. They did everything together. She even went to Sunday School and Primary with Hank even though she wasn't three yet. They loved Primary. Tanise carried her own weight and kept up with him. When Tara was born, that broke up the diad, so Tara felt excluded from their little circle. Rightly so.

I have fond memories of the three of them when we were sealed in the temple March 29, 1969. Tara was just seven weeks old when we went to the Los Angeles Temple.

I believe Hank(son) still remembers at age, 4 1/2 about that day in the temple when he said he had to wear "white trousers." He was about the same age as K8 is now. Tara, a newborn was nursing at the time and hadn't eaten anything for over five hours and didn't make a sound of discomfort or hunger during that whole time.


I wore a size twelve in this picture, not bad for just having had a seven week old. I made my temple dress, and Tanise's dress she is wearing. I had my hair done at the salon by a friend where I used to work. I have always been blessed to have a good hairdresser to keep my hair well groomed. Many compliments have been given to me about my hair, and I attribute that to my ancestors and am thankful for it.