Baptism

We welcomed Shannon into the Catholic Church over the weekend. We were so blessed to have family and friends from near and far come to be part of her baptism. Aunt Kathy and Uncle Mike are her godparents. (Lucky girl!)

It turned out to be a l-o-n-g ceremony, but Shannon was a trooper. (And a cat-napper.)




She made very funny faces when the water was poured over her head and thought the oil used to annoint her tasted pretty good (she wanted to suck on Deacon Ray's finger!).

Afterwards, we came back to our house for lunch...

... and cake!

Thank you to everyone for sharing this special day with us, especially those who did a lot of traveling in a weekend!

PS. I owe you all another post soon with some close-ups of our holy little girl in her beautiful baptism gown made for her by her Great-Grandma Rose.