Big weekend

Boy did we have a big busy weekend. In the past 4 or 5 days I've taken over 200 pictures. Cole was baptized on Saturday morning. Our friend, Danny, who is a pastor in Mansfield came down with his wife, Sarah, and did the baptism for us. It was intimate and special. We did it in our backyard and had a brunch to follow. Here are some pictures from that.





Rev. Danny Anderson and his wife, Sarah Anderson with Cole.

A full length photo of his gown. It was the same one Carter was baptized in. I hope to keep it in the family as an heirloom, it sure has the quality for it. I had Carter's full name and baptism date embroidered on the slip back in 2007 and will do the same for Cole.

Cole and Grandpa

Grandmama with her 3 great-grandsons.

Erica and her boyfriend, Jake, came in from St. Louis. He coincidentally had a CPE course in town and they stayed for the ceremony. Too bad he's blinking in this picture, otherwise it would have been a good one. Sorry Jake!

I like this picture not only because Sarah and Cole are in it, but Carter actually took it. He insisted "I do it on my own" and indeed he did.

On Friday night we went to the Fall Festival at church. They did such a great job. There were so many games that were age appropriate and the boys had a blast. Here they are dressed up in their costumes. Brian has on one of his shirts from when he was in the Navy. It was a little tight, so he didn't wear it all night.

Grandpa volunteered for parking lot duty; that's his uniform not his costume :)

Here is Carter fishing for lollipops.

Here is Carter at the bean bag toss. He got two out of three in the hole. Great job!

Cole is getting a duck out of the pond. It has a number on it, and you exchange it for some candy or prizes. He got a lollipop - the only kind of candy I'll let him have.

Here's Carter on the play castle inside the Kingdom Club (that's the area they call the Nursery). It's there year round and he loves it.

This was Cole's favorite room and Carter's second favorite. There were bubbles everywhere and they could pop them with pool noodles, so creative.

And this was Carter's favorite. They had a preschool room emptied and filled with balloons that they hit around with blow up bats. We spent alot of time in that room.

The ring toss. Yea, he got pretty close but thats okay.

And the bowling game.

And last week we went to Awbrey's 3rd birthday party. It was a princess party and all the girls got dressed up in their princess dresses. So I went and found a King's costume for Carter. Cole just wore a crown, I didn't think he'd enjoy, nor keep on, a costume.

Here is Carter and his friend Luke, the only other boy at the party besides mine.