Baptism and Birthday Party

This is a big weekend, as we are not only celebrating Lily's birthday (again!), but she is also being baptized. For the two big events, Grandma and Grandpa came for the weekend and my cousin Nancy and her two children drove down from Illinois. My cousin Nancy has always been like a sister to me. We don't get to see each other very often so I was very excited when she agreed to be Lily's Godmother, and wanted to make the long drive down.

The cousins had so much fun together! Caitlyn loved being the oldest and being "in charge", and Logan just loved running with the boys.

Lily was very excited to have her first real birthday party. Here she is with her Tinkerbell birthday cake. She picked out the cake and talked about it for weeks.
She loved her balloons.


Getting a lot of help from brothers and cousins!


A lady must be very neat with her cake!
The kids had tons of fun with their cousins Caitlyn and Logan
Tyler hanging with Grandma.
All the kids piled together for prayers and a bible story before bed each night.
Notice the winter pj's? I had been telling my cousin about the beautiful weather we had been having........well.........until that weekend! It was cold and dreary, but the kids didn't seem to care.

On Sunday, Lily was baptized at our church. Our church baptizes babies and children into the church family. We in turn promise to guide them and teach them the Christian faith until they're old enough to except Christ's salvation for themselves.

Our beautiful girl in her baptismal dress.


Lily with her Godmother, Aunt Nancy, and her cousins.




At church with our pastor who has now baptized all 4 of our children.

It was sad to say goodbye to all of our guests on Monday. The cousins got along so well, that we have already made plans to get together again this summer!