Big Weekend

McKenzie hitting the pinata

Pumpkin carving

Olivia's baptism

Baby Ava and Olivia

McKenzie in the rain

Ali, Nicki and Kari at Ali's birthday party

Kari and Bobby

Last weekend was a long one for us. We decided to have Olivia baptized and McKenzie's birthday party on the same day. Both parties went very well.

The baptism was interesting. We went in front of the congregation and stood proud of our family while we waited for Olivia's turn to be baptized. From what I am told, McKenzie stood there looking out to the crowd as she picked her nose. Wonderful! Then, Olivia spit up on me. We had no burp cloth with us up front. Bobby was so nice as to use his hand to clean it up (it wasn't a lot). Then Olivia started crying. Of course I didn't have a binky with me either. Thank goodness for uncle Brian (Brian and Heather are Olivia's godparents). He rescued us by going through Olivia's diaper bag (looking through every single little pocket) until he could find one. The party afterward went fine.

Next on the agenda was McKenzie's birthday party. Like usual I had way too many pumpkins for carving. It was a great time though. The best part was the pinata. Each kid got a chance to hit the pinata. McKenzie ended up breaking it open for the candy to fall out. It was very entertaining to watch them.

Thank you to everyone that joined us for the parties. We had a great time!

Happy birthday to Ali and Brian! We had a great time at Ali's party last weekend as well at the Piano bar. That's always a fun place to go.

Congratulations to my cousin Shaina and her husband Trevor (and also to big sister Ava and big brother Carter). They just welcomed thier third child on October 9th. They had a baby girl named Brooklyn. Congrats guys!!