gracie's baptism 2011

 yes, i am aware that this event took place almost a year ago. no, i have no shame in posting it now.  i have been a slacker to the Nth degree with the blog and i have no valid excuses.   but here it is anyway, either for your enjoyment, just ours or both.  (i mean really, we all know this is basically for our own enjoyment half the time right?)

 grace looking so spectacular in her baptism dress.  the story behind the dress is that i accidentally ordered the wrong one! oops! but once this one came in the mail, she fell in love! so we were all good.

 preparing for the dunkage.

 all well and clean! dad only had to dunk this kid once.  i guess the third time really is the charm...

 with bishop watson (he's been the bishop for all of our girls' baptisms)

 with all of the fam that made it for her special day.  our family, grandma and grandpa, cousin zachary and uncle neal.

 with her bff kylee

 grandma and grandpa who came all the way from mississippi!

 with her silly sisters

 seriously want to eat them up! so gorgeous!

 cousin zachary and uncle neal came up from miami 

 daddy

 goofing off? no, not this group...

 being taken to prison by the warden...

 mom

 at home we snapped a few shots of the baptism girl

 grace just being grace

all in all it was a fantastic morning.  that is it. no more babies to be baptized.  goes too fast!  

after the baptism we had a rockin' good birthday party! those pics to come soon because, if i do say so myself, the person who put it together did a superb job!