Last weekend we were able to celebrate Kellen's baptism with friends and family. Of course when I scheduled the event in October I didn't think about what else might be happening the first Sunday of February. That's ok, we also got to enjoy the Superbowl with our family!
Unlike Noelle's baptism, we decided not to do Kellen's christening as part of mass. Noelle has been behaving better at church lately, but 2 hours of being on her best behavior would be pushing it, so we decided to do the baptism at 1. Deacon Joe, who we had met in our prep class when we had Noelle, christened Kellen and a little girl (named Harley Quinn, I kid you not...). We were honored to have my parents, brother, Catherine and Jake, Lindsay and Adam, Mrs. Lanigan, the Coyles, my grandmother, my dad's brother from Georgia, and my aunt and uncle from New Jersey for the big day. Kellen also is blessed with great godparents - our good friends the Hollywood's! Nicole, Sean, and Annabelle were so wonderful all day too! We really appreciated everyone coming out on the busy February day and were so excited that the weather cooperated!
Kellen was a rock star throughout the ceremony despite having a bad cold. He didn't make a peep when Deacon Joe poured the water on his head, and thought getting anointed was pretty cool. So cool that he still smells like the chrisem a week later! Sean did a great job with the fire and Nicole placed his new white garb over him with great finesse. Then we took about a million pictures, all of which have people looking at different cameras so very few of them are good!
After the baptism most people were able to come over to feast on some BBQ, meatballs, baked potato bar, buffalo chicken dip, other munchies, and of course, cake! It was a really nice celebration and it was great to see everyone.
Kellen contemplates being a child of Christ!
And Noelle enjoys her baked potato - whole without the fixings!
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