Holleboom Family Blog: Carson's Baptism

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Carson's Baptism

On Sunday, August 24th, we had Carson baptized at Faith Lutheran Church in Grand Blanc. Thankfully, Carson made it through the service and baptism fairly well. He did fuss a little during the baptism, but he did much better than I'd expected... I'd worried he'd be screaming during the baptism. We had all of our close relatives and a few close friends join us for the occasion - we had forty people overall!

We asked Uncle Danny and Auntie Jaime to be Carson's Godparents. Godparents today don't serve the same purpose as they did traditionally, now they are more of a christian mentor rather than more of a guardian as they used to be.

After church, we all came back to our house for a BBQ and to visit. The weather was perfect, not too hot, not too cold, and it was great to see everyone. Carson was slightly out of sorts, with his eating and napping routine messed up, but he did pretty well overall.

We were able to get some updated pictures of the four Holleboom grandchildren and the four of them were able to get some good playtime in together.

I'll be uploading lots of pics of the baptism in our Shutterfly albums soon (link to right), so check them out in a bit.

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