Baptism Weekend

Rick and I survived Charlie's first airplane experience unscathed!  Traveling with an infant is no joke.  We were only gone for a long weekend and we had enough stuff to sink a small ship.  I cannot imagine going on an actual week long vacation...Charlie better start carrying his own weight.  It's funny how routine things you've been doing for years suddenly become more complicated when you have a kid.  When you check in for your flight at ticketing its second nature to ensure you have your boarding pass and ID before getting to security.  In fact I am always anal about checking rechecking and checking one more time to make sure these things haven't up and walked out of my purse.  However, all routines are out the window when you add a baby to the equation.  Suddenly instead of checking for my boarding pass, I'm smelling butts and searching for pacifiers.  And that is exactly why Rick, Charlie, and I made it all the way through the 15 minute security line before either of us realized the ticket agent forgot to give us our boarding passes.  AMATEURS.  Charlie batted his sweet eyes and the TSA agent agreed to let Charlie and I stay with the luggage to the side of the line while Rick sprinted back to the Frontier desk to grab our boarding passes.  The rest of the process from Denver to St. Louis went smoothly.  Charlie was a perfect angel on the plane, sleeping nearly the whole way.  He did drop a bomb on us during the descent.  I felt terrible for the row of people directly in front and behind us.  Since we were already descending there was nothing we could do, but wait it out and breathe through our mouths.  Charlie was the only one who seemed even more relaxed afterwards:-)

The baptism weekend was a full blown success!  Charlie was great, sleeping throughout the service until it was his time to shine.  I kid you not, at the first mention of the word "baptism" Charlie's eyes shot open as if to say, "Let's do this!"  It was a beautiful service.  We were so lucky to have so many friends and family there to celebrate with us.

The three of us before the service.  So mad I didn't get a picture of Charlie in his adorable baptism outfit. Worry not, I've planned a photo shoot for him later in the week to show it off:-)

After the service with Charlie wide awake and ready to party!

Charlie's beautiful cake made by the one and only Aunt Francie.  She belongs on the Food Network competing for the big bucks!

Meet the godparents: Matt and Sarah Hamann.  Charlie was tired of all the partying...

I love my family.  I feel so blessed when I look at this picture.  Especially when I think about where this whole journey began a couple of years ago!

My family

Rick's family

Erin drove in from Kansas City to meet Charlie.  Looks like I'm interrupting him, sorry!

Charlie met his Great Grandma Betsy for the first time.

Our friend Dan was nice enough to come to Charlie's baptism.  I think Charlie liked him.  He fell asleep in Dan's arms.

The weekend was great.  We were so happy to have family and friends there to celebrate with us.  I'm thankful to have our first flight behind us.  Maybe next time we'll remember to check for the boarding passes!