Baptized!!!!

We had a very, very exciting today!

Our baby girl was baptized!!!!!  It was such a sweet, special time and we are so proud of her!  She asked Jesus to be her Savior in October, had a meeting with the Preschool Minister, Miss Rhonda, in November, and finally was baptized this morning!  She has been waiting for this for quite a while and was beyond excited!

She bounded down the stairs this morning ready to go to church!!  We had the grandparents come to the service to watch(as well as several of our sweet friends!) and then they joined us at our house to continue the celebration!

I hope that we all remember this special day for a long, long time!!

Ready to go to church!!!

Upstairs before the baptism:)

Pastor Paul baptized her!

She loved to keep going back and looking at the baptismal
over and over again!

From my vantage point during the baptism!

I had my dad taking pictures from down in the pews!
M and C lit the candle as she was being baptized!

The grandparents' vantage point during the baptism!

After lunch, we enjoyed this sweet cookie cake made just for our little girl!

Opening some presents - a bracelet and a new
bible story book!

At this point, things started getting crazy!  The kids showed off for their grandparents upstairs for a while and then we went outside to run off some serious energy!!!

The only way to keep this one still - tie him up:)

I'm telling you, the kids were totally nuts by this point!

After everyone had left and it was just the four of us, we broke out the kites that I've had since last spring!  The weather was perfect for it and the kids were able to fly them all by themselves pretty much just standing there while the wind blew!  Very fun!

Enjoying the new book she got!