We have had a lot of fun the past two weeks. William had two long weekends in a row...one for President's day and then one for the change of command in his squadron. My mom and Jim came down last week and hung out with us for about a week in Florida. We celebrated my mom's birthday and the girls turned 10 months on the same day. The girls were able to spend quality time with them which was great. My mom slaved away trying to make pillows for our couch. She stayed up late and finished and they look great! Thanks mom.
We packed up on Saturday and headed up to Birmingham to have the girls baptized. We chose to do it in the church William grew up in and it went great! The girls wore a replica of the gown William's grandfather wore. The original is in really bad shape so William's aunt had them remade by her cousin and of course she had to make two. We were a little concerned about the fact we waited until the girls were 10 months old to have them baptized...we weren't quite sure if they would go to the minister. Stranger anxiety has certainly set in and they do cling to us now,however they are quick to warm up. The minister met us in the bride's room where we were dressing the girls to meet us and say a prayer. Once we met, I was at ease. He was such a soft spoken, tender, dear,kind man and Ellie did not take her eyes off of him. Once in front of the church, he took Ellie first and baptized her. He walks about halfway down the aisle to show her off to the congregation. Ellie had the hiccups throughout the whole ceremony and while he was holding her she was so close to his microphone that they were very audible. Needless to say the whole congregation was laughing. Lindley Kate went next and she went to him just as easily. The whole ceremony was perfect and we were just relieved we didn't have any screamers on our hands! Afterwards we met back at my in-law's house and had a brunch with much of William's family and fortunately both my mom and Jim and Dad and Julie came down to Bham for the ceremony. It was a fun day and William's mom went out of her way for the party with lots of good food, yummy cake, and pretty flowers.
We are back in Florida and my dad made the trek back with us and is visiting here for a few days and hanging out with the girls! I need to post their 10 months photos so more to come later!
Friday night,out at La Paz....G.G. and Ellie having a fun time!
Granddaddy(my dad) and Ellie
JuJu and Lindley Kate
Getting ready on Sunday morning
Ellie had been crawling all around the room in her jammies and was disappoited when we dressed her!
Family photo op
Lindley Kate admiring her daddy...she loves him dearly...well they both do..once he walks in the door I am chopped liver.
William's cousin Patty B holding Hollan with her son Will
Will loved holding Lindley Kate
Libby with Ellie
Many of the Boulware cousins
The cake
Our family
Our family
5 comments:
great pictures! i love the ones of the 4 of y'all! you have the most gorgeous family ever!
Wow - what a couple of weeks! Those pictures of you 4 as a family are just gorgeous! Congrats to the girls!
You did SO much more with your twins than I did. You go girl! And I'm so glad the baptism went well. Such a precious memory for your family.
And girl you were so right on how passionate people feel about crying it out! Wow. I've gotten so many emails with TONS of advice. Thanks for your sincere comments. Glad you are back in the blogging world. I've taken many vacations over the past few months.
Such beautiful photos! You guys make such a gorgeous family of four! :)
Sounds like the baptism was really blessed--I'm so glad! I would have loved to be there watching it all and hearing the hiccups. So cute! I bet the people were just taken by the girls. They are adorable!
Such a beautiful family! Glad to see everyone is doing so well... Hugs!
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