Easter Weekend

Ok, so now I'm a week behind on posting pictures of our Easter and Christening festivities. The highlights were definitely the Christening ceremony itself, our brunch afterward at our family favorite The Golden Mast, and an Easter Egg Hunt that my neighbor/friend (and now Emma's Godmother) hosted for the neighborhood. The kids had a really good time collecting eggs and discovering their treats inside. There must've been 500 eggs and about 12 kids...you do the math! It was loads of fun and our own hunting around the house for eggs and their baskets was actually a bit anticlimatic after her event. Still fun, though. Clare seemed to have the most fun with it. Oh...maybe because she was sleeping through Robbin's event so didn't have the comparison. That must be it.





The Christening was a really special event. The church we attend now is just awesome and Father Mike is such a great guy so it had to be a success! This was the first baptism we've had that was during a service so that was different. Also, they do full immersion at St. Joan of Arc which for an infant means that Father Mike gets in the baptismal pool, takes the baby, and swishes them back and forth in the water up to about their chest. He's very gentle with them and it's really very sweet. The babies don't put on their baptismal gown until after that. Emma wore the same one that the other kids have worn...it was knit by my maternal grandmother. She did awesome throughout the service with about 5 seconds of crying while she was in the water. Otherwise, a real trooper all day. Actually, all the kids did great and Corey and Lilly now say they'd be willing to go back to church with me so that's great!! We'll see what they say after mass on Sunday!