Well, exciting may not be quite the right word, but it sure was fun!
As you know, Daniel's birthday was Sunday. In order to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, we scheduled Mary's baptism for the same day, hoping that both sets of grandparents would be able to be here for the events. And it worked! My parents drove down from Georgia, and John's mother and her husband came over from Louisiana, and we were thrilled to have everyone here!
Here we all are.
Here is just our family, but you can get a better look at the christening gown.
A word about the christening gown: my mother made it for our children, and it is beautiful! All four of our children have worn it to be baptized, and Sarah Beth will get it when she has children. I feel so fortunate to have such a gown for this special occasion.
We celebrated Daniel's birthday Sunday night for supper. When I asked him what he wanted for his birthday meal, he couldn't think of anything, so I started listing things that he likes. Pizza? No. Spaghetti? No. Chili? No. Meatloaf? Yeah! Yeah! I want meatloaf! So we had meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and sugar snap peas for supper. (Do your children like meatloaf? Is mine strange?)
We've been talking for a month or more about what kind of cupcakes to make for Daniel's birthday. Sarah Beth gets strawberry cupcakes (her birthday is during strawberry season), so Daniel wanted blueberry cupcakes. Blueberry muffins? Yum! Blueberry cupcakes? Not so much. We decided on chocolate cupcakes with blue icing. The icing was actually peppermint buttercream, and there's just something not quite right about eating something blue that tastes like peppermint.
Then we opened presents. Poor Rachel thought the presents were for her since she got to open some for her birthday just three weeks ago.
Do you see Daniel's black eye? It's not his first.
Playing with the legos that Grammy gave Daniel.
We had such a good time with our visitors, but I have to admit that it's nice to have our house back to ourselves again. What did you do this weekend?
3 comments:
What a sweet weekend - full of love and memories :)
We had a low key weekend, still trying to get everyone healthy here!
What a treat to have both sets of grands! And, all my kids love meatloaf. It's one of four meals they all agree on.
Thats a beautiful christening gown - and such a sweet tradition to go with it! Glad your families were able to be there.
No, I'm afraid my kids don't like meatloaf. Of course, I don't either, so the may have influenced them in some way! ;)
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