Weekend Wrap-Up: The Baptism Edition

Happy Sunday!

This was a big weekend for us- Maya Leigh was baptized today!  My mom's family came into town from Connecticut and Colorado, and we were able to spend a lot of time with them throughout the weekend.

On Friday night, Callie had a sleepover at G-ma and G-pa's house.  The highlight of it was a bonfire in their yard!

While Callie was over there, we had Boom, Bops, Yoda, Craig, Uncle Joe, Carolyn and Uncle John over to our house for dinner (and we used them for labor as well...to get our house ready for today).

Maya did a great job being adorable and entertaining the crowd.

On Saturday we worked more on our house and had some baby time.   Thankfully she has pretty much figured out night time sleeping and usually only wakes up once about 4 or 5am.  Then goes back to sleep.  It is awesome.

I slept til 9am.  No big deal.

Then we headed to the condo, where Maya got to meet my Aunts- Jenny and Margie.  We went for a walk, ate a delicious dinner, and spent more good quality time together.



Today was baptism day!  The baptism itself was, well, a tad scream-inducing for both of our girls.  They held it together pretty well through the first part, and then both lost it (for different reasons) when I passed Maya off to Uncle Joe to do the actual baptism.  She is never good at transitioning between people, so she started crying.  Then when the congregation laughed a little bit, Callie lost it and started crying (have I mentioned her sensitivity to laughing before?  It deserves a whole blog post on its own...but let's just say she FREAKS OUT if she thinks people are laughing at her).  So they were both crying and then I started giggling and it was all done and we all made it.

We had lunch for everybody back at our house and it was wonderful to have the space for 30 people to sit and eat comfortably.  That would NOT have happened at our old house. 

Our friend Nik took pictures of the baptism, so I will post them later once I get them.  Here are a few teasers from the pictures my dad took.

Getting all ready in her pretty baptism gown.

Yep, both girls crying.

I didn't take very many pictures afterwards, but here are a few pictures from the lunch at our house.


With Great-Grandma Gi-gi

Getting Boom and Grandma love

A happy girl

Thanks to everyone who came to help us celebrate this special day.  And a special thanks to those who were part of the service- Uncle Joe, Auntie Cat and Auntie Mari (Maya's Godmothers), and Boom and Auntie Yoda for playing beautiful music.