Grace belongs to Jesus!

Today was a great day!

Today Grace was baptized.

Today was the day I declared to all that I will teach Grace about God.

Today was the day that Grace was dedicated to my Lord. Today was the day that it was declared to all that Grace is engaged to know Jesus as her Savior.

Today was a great day!

It started out early. For some reason, neither of my two girls know that they are to sleep later than 6:30am. So we were up at at 'em early. We had to be at church early in order to meet the pastoral elder and get the order of worship. I was so concerned that Grace was going to be loud during the service. Because believe me, that girl has lungs!! But she was great. She did babble a little bit, but it wasn't at such a loud volume. We headed up for the baptism and my dad got to baptize her!! Isn't that fantastic!! It's his 8th grandchild that he baptized and it's just so much more special when it's your dad doing it. When I handed Grace over to dad, she just looked right at him and melted his heart with her big smile. The water didn't bother her either, I mean she was in the arms of her papa.

After the baptism, we headed to my parent's house for a feast. No joke, my mom can cook! My brother and his family joined us there and it was a great celebration. Later in the afternoon the girls and I headed outside for a long walk. Abby loves to ride her bike and has been begging for me to take her outside. Today was a beautiful day so we headed out. Then we parked ourselves in the front yard and Abby played with all her summer toys. She even pulled out the sidewalk chalk. With all the excitement of the morning and the exercise of the afternoon, both girls fell asleep by 7:00pm. Yeah, it's mommy time now. :)

Here are the cousins with baby Grace. They were all excited to see her again.

After all the excitement of the morning, and all the new faces looking at her, Grace fell asleep in her carseat. She was asleep before we even left the church parking lot.

My nephew Seth, wanted me to take a picture of his missing tooth. Isn't he such a cutie?

Even Abraham stayed home for the baptism this weekend. Grace adores Abraham!

Here we are. A beautiful family of 3. A family who belongs completely to our Jesus!

This is Grace Elisabeth. This beautiful girl who was a promise of God. This girl who will grow up to know about his love for her. This girl who is engaged to know him as her Lord and Savior. Isn't she just precious???