Baby Dedication

This has been a busy weekend!!!!  Emma and Evan's 3rd birthday party was Saturday.  They had an art party.  It was a lot of fun.  Then Sunday, we had Laney's baby dedication.  I will not get voted for mom of the year on this one..... I did not stop to take a single picture.  They took lots of pictures at church and somehow the pictures were lost or deleted!!!  I am so sad!!!  It was such a wonderful day.  I guess I will just tell about it and hopefully the pictures will be found. I have a few terrible ones but none of Laney!!  We had all of our family here.  Even the Charleston crew came.  We went to the 11:00 service.  They told a little about each child and then we had to repeat a prayer dedicating to do our best to tell Laney of God's love for her and to raise her is a safe, Christian environment.  She wore a little white dress with smocked crosses around the collar.  When Lisa was introducing Laney, our family was asked to stand.  We had two rows of people stand.  That just tells how much this little girl is loved.  Lucia, Sam, Millie and Hannah were all dedicated together.  After church, we all came back to our house for lunch.  We had pork tenderloin, apple/pecan salad, carrot salad, brown rice, develed eggs and fresh apple cake for dessert.  I made cross sugar cookies for everyone's favor with Laney's life verse.  We had a prayer~ Matt and I both prayed for our sweet Laney and for ourselves.  Then we had a wonderful lunch.  One of the best parts of the day was K came.  She got to meet all of our family.  I must say she is pretty independent to come here and meet all 21 of them.  It went so well.  She fit in and we never missed a beat!!  We were so excited to have her be a part of this special day.  Laney got a new testament bible, a bracelet, an angel Christmas tradition doll and a storybook bible. Hopefully we will find the pictures but until then, at least I have the details documented.