James' Baptism

Today we ended the wonderful holiday weekend with James' Baptism at Mauldin United Methodist Church, our church home for about a year and a half. It was a beautiful service, and James did fantastic. We had a lot of family who were there to share in this momentous day and the family who couldn't be there was certainly there in spirit!

Here are some pictures of our special day (thanks Uncle Hunter for doing a fabulous job at documenting our special day!).

Mom (aka Nana) went with me early to get our little man dressed in his christening gown.... Mom's winking at the camera :) Thanks again Nana for all of your help in getting ready and cleaning up after it all... I don't know what I'd do without you!! :)

Family photo in the church :)

Auntie Joy and Baby James....

Both of James' great-grandmothers were there!

Us during the service... (thanks again Hunter!)

Our squirmy wormy being very good!

Video of the actual baptism (the first part we are supposed to be in prayer :):

Yes.. James was squeezing the preacher's cheeks the walk down the aisle :)

The tradition at our church is the preacher walks him up and down the aisle and lets everyone meet the new member of the church... it was so sweet!

Us watching :)

Immediately following church we had all the family over for lunch at our house! Here is James with his Grammy and Grandpa who came up from Aiken just to celebrate his special day....

Nana and Pop with James...

Gigi and Ma :) love this pic!

Sandra, Mom, Grandmama, Gracie and Alden with James

Kircher - Larson family photo :)

I wish this picture wasn't blurry, but still posting it... Any hints to fix the blurriness???

The largest meal I've served in my dinning room! We were able to SQUEEZE 13 around the table.... It was tight, but it was GREAT!

And the kiddo table....

Photo of the table from the other end...

Dad wanted to make sure he got one more that I was in :) haha....

It was a great, special day and we thoroughly enjoyed it. :) My only question now... coming from a born and raised baptist girl... When is it considered "okay" to wash off the holy water?? I don't want to wash it off too soon. I figured there had to be some sort of time frame, right? Haaa... just kidding. :)