Emmie's Baptism

Emmie was baptized on January 12th and it was such a beautiful day. I've been meaning to post about this for the last month but I was hoping to go through all the pics my (now) future brother-in-law took during the baptism, but I'll have to get to that and post those a little later. 

We scheduled the baptism before Bennett got sick and post-sickness we went back and forth on whether or not we should reschedule since he wasn't able to attend and we had so much going on with his recovery. However, knowing it's such a special event in her life we kept it on the 12th. And I'm so glad we did. It was the Feast of the Baptism which gave it so much relevance that specific day.  Father Tom's homily was perfect and so memorable. And even more memorable, was that little lady wore the Christening gown that I was baptized in 32 years ago.

Emmie & her Godfather, Joe.  We missed you Godmother Gina!

  

  

the dress

and the gown overcoat

  

Clyde turns 12

Billy Clyde turned 12 on Feb 8th and we of course celebrated in style with our annual party filled with presents & a cheeseburger.

 

 

  

 

the boys reading their cards to Clyde that they made for him.

  

 But the real bday gift for Clyde was {hopefully} a new lease on life and a few extra years with him thanks to a surgery that we had done a couple of weeks ago to help him breath.

 

Sledding!

Winter is here... finally! And we're embracing the snow wholeheartedly and enjoying it while it lasts. So this weekend we bundled up and hit the sledding hill.

snow bunny.

Similarities?

I get asked all the time who Emmie looks like. I definitely see both of the boys in her but looking back at pics of the boys at 4 months, I'm thinking Cal.

Cal (Emmie & Cal look identical when sleeping)

Bennett

Bennett's latest check-up

Bennett had another check-up yesterday to make sure his recovery is going as planned and for another blood draw to check that his platelet count and some other makers of the disease present in the blood test were returning to normal.  We got just the news we were hoping for... Aside from a still slightly elevated sedimentation rate, everything looks great. Such a blessing. Next up, another meeting with the pediatric cardiologist and an echo & EKG in a couple months.

This boy took his blood draws like a total champ. Not a single complaint or tear shed, so of course ice cream for lunch was a well deserved reward.

Busy little hands

 

And a little bit of everything else...

Snow!

We had quite the weekend of fun. First up was the St. Joe's auction on Saturday night. So fun! And unfortunately I didn't take a single pics of us or the event. And Sunday was one for the memory books... watching the Seahawks win the Superbowl! So awesome. We had a great time watching the game and eating way too much good food with friends. And look at all these kids that were there, 19 total (including the 3 not pictured).