Baptism

This weekend we celebrated Jack's baptism with our family and church family at Remembrance Church. Pastor Todd Schmidt performed the ceremony, and he did a very nice job. Jack did great. He was awake and alert the whole time, but he never let out a peep. Jason held him through the rest of the service, and Jack paid very close attention to Pastor Steve as he began the sermon. Shortly thereafter, he closed his eyes and drifted to sleep :-)

This is the only picture that we got with all 3 of us. We were planning to take Hannah up with us as well, but she wanted to stay with Papa instead. Rather than battle a wiggly toddler, we let her stay with our family instead. We were very thankful to have both sets of parents, my brother, sister-in-law and niece, and Jason's grandpa in attendance. Our families are such a support to us and our family, and we're very grateful for the Christian influence they have had, and will continue to have, in our children's lives.

After church, we had everybody back to our house for a taco bar. In theory it was going to be easy, but as always, it ended up being a lot of work. The whole afternoon was a whirlwind. We never even got a family picture together. I suppose that's pretty typical when playing the hostess for a party.

Our little man was content just hanging out in his bumbo seat while everybody had lunch.

Of course, the focus of the day - we pray for all of God's blessings on Jack as he grows.