in the name of the father

we had miss brette baptized over the weekend.

we took the baptism class back in august

and have been waiting around to schedule it.

i'm glad we took the time to do it.

it was a special day for us and our family.

 

ronnie wasn't raised in the church

and i was.

something we discussed before

we got married was if he was okay raising our kids catholic.

i wanted to and he doesn't have strong feelings either way.

so it's always just been known that b would grow up catholic.

we've made it a point over the years to try to go to mass.

i wouldn't say we're regulars,

but i do feel better when we go.

this weekend we went on saturday for her baptism

and then again on sunday.

 

um, hello god, did you see that?

twice.

in one week.

we're going to heaven for sure. 

 

here's brette with us, the deacon and her godparents/grandparents.

 

and we had it at our beautiful church - holy spirit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

we took lots of family pictures with brette in her christening gown,

which was my mom's gown when she was baptized. 

how cool is that?

b wore her gma's 60 year old garment.

(hence the bib. i totally didn't want to be the one that let her kid puke all over it.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and some adorable close-ups of brette.

 

 

 

then it was time for the actual baptism.

 

 

my grandma was so happy.  i am in love with these two pictures.

 

 

 

her special blanket from aunt mickie.

 

and our keepsakes from the church.

 

 

 

being this blessed really wore out our girl.

 

 

but she finally woke up for her party back at our house.

 

 

 

i made cupcakes and soup for everyone.

 

 

big day.

big success.

big blessings.

 

lots to be thankful for.



ps- amazing picture, right?  my cousin took them.
thanks, kelly!

my life, our life

ronnie and i celebrated our anniversary yesterday.

five years.

doesn't seem possible.

 

wasn't just a couple years ago

that ronnie and i made the trip to chicago where he proposed?

i was freaking out, i mean, we had barely begun to date.

who is this guy?

 

graduating from college and moving back home

to be with ronnie wasn't SIX years ago... was it?

 

 

 

 

wasn't it just the other day that we decided to move, buy a house,

fix it up and make it our home?

 

 

aren't my beautiful puppies still puppies?

or are they really old enough to enter kindergarten?

 

 

it doesn't feel like i walked down the aisle

half a decade ago in front of our family and friends

and promised to make my life, our life.

 

 

and now, after five years,

we decided to make our life into her life.

 

 

 

what a crazy, wonderful, blessed five years.

happy anniversary, ronnie ray.

i love you.

 

 

 

dress me up and take me out

brette's very first halloween.

 

it was short and super sweet,

just the way we like it.

it stopped raining

and the sun actually popped out.

unfortunately, it was still pretty chilly.

this meant trick-or-treating only lasted about one block

before the girls were ready to call it a night.

madeline's exact words: i'm done with this.

 

 

but who cares when they're this cute.

am i right?

we had doc mcstuffins and her lamby pal,

along with mommy witch.

then we had two 1950's babes.

brette was more "sandra d" and i was more "rizzo".

(we also had a couple of dads and a grammy)

i think this family shot would have been
a thousand times more adorable if ronaldo
had done his part with jeans, a white t-shirt and a black leather jacket.
dammit, ronnie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pass me a candybar.