These Small Hours: Baptisms and Birthdays

As promised, I am posting pictures from Brecken’s baptism and Cade’s birthday celebration. Following Brecken’s baptism, we had lunch at our house for our family to celebrate the baptism and Cade’s 3rd birthday. What a great day! I can’t even begin to put into words how great it was to have our families together to show their love and support for Cade and Brecken. We are so blessed. We appreciate everyone taking the time/traveling to share the day with us. The baptism went well. She was baptized with three other babes, all boys. (An interesting tidbit about that that might be fun to tell her some day is that one of the other babies being baptized was the son of a local celebrity (an ex-local university’s basketball coach whose father is also a long- time coach in the state.) We asked Jim's sister, Amy, and her husband Zac to be Brecken's godparents. And we got to return the favor when their daughter Jacey was baptized in April. When Father H. went to pour the water over her head, she grabbed the pitcher as if she wanted to do it herself, and he said something like, “I’m perfectly capable of doing this myself, I’ve done it many times.” Cade was quite intrigued with the baptismal pool which provided some entertainment as he laid down and waved at us through the hole in the wall. Jim made pulled pork sandwiches for lunch which were tasty. We almost ran out, but then again, some were going back for thirds…I won’t mention names here! Everyone raved over Bonni’s coleslaw and Roberta’s cake. Andy helped his mom decorate Cade’s Shrek cake…so impressive! Brecken was such a good baby all day, barely made a peep, and when the day was over, we realized that some time during it all, her two front bottom teeth had popped through!