Ava and Noah's Baptism

Ava and Noah were baptized on Sunday November 13th, 2011. It was a busy crazy weekend full of family and fun.

Let me back up and tell the history of getting the kids baptized.  We talked about getting Ava baptized before she was born and after she was born. But we never got around to it for a couple of reasons. One was the fact that the 2 churches near us had a lot of "hoops" to jump through to get her baptized. It shouldn't be a reason, but it was for me. Second was that we had to take a class and I wasn't comfortable leaving Ava with anyone for a long time after she was born. Then it just got put on the back burner. Then came Noah. Again the discussions came up and again the excuses came with it.

Then Mike decided that he wanted to become confirmed in the Catholic church, so he looked online and found a church that had a program that just started meeting on Thursday nights, so he decided to check it out. He liked it and found out that there was a class coming up for us to take to get the kids baptized and this church didn't have any "hoops" to jump through to get it done. So we went to the class. My dad and Patty were already coming to visit this weekend and this also happened to be one of the weekends they do the baptisms, so we scheduled it and there you have it. Both, Ava and Noah got baptized.

I, unfortunately, did not get a lot of pictures, so am hoping that those that did will send me some!!!
Here are the 2 that I did get.

It was a beautiful day and Deacon Jim told us to write down the details of the day so that we can remember it. As it has it, the weather channel was calling for rain. It rained that night and it was cloudy in the morning, but by the time the baptism came around, the sun was out and the weather was beautiful.

 Ava's godmother is my sister, Jacy and her godfather is my step brother, Brian. Noah's godmother is my other sister, Jaclyn and his godfather is also Brian.

Both kids did great during the baptism. Noah only cried when the Deacon put the water on his head because I didn't do the greatest job of holding him and the water ended up getting on his face. Ava even had Deacon Jim bless Bobo. He asked that Bobo be her security when she needs it. Other than that, it was a nice ceremony.

We had everyone over afterwards for Mexican (which we picked up), wine and dessert. 

Both kids were pooped that night after a long weekend with many activities. Ava had the most fun playing with all her grandma's (Nana, Grandma Nini and Gramme) and of course her Papa Ron.