In addition to being incredibly cute, she can kiss now!
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Bella's Baptism VIDEO Part I
Uncle Joe did a great job as our videographer. The entire ceremony is about 15 minutes but to load it onto the blog I needed to cut it into two pieces. This is part 1.
Make sure you check out part 2 as well...
Make sure you check out part 2 as well...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Bella's Baptism (Part 3)
Here are the last five - hopefully the video will be coming soon as well!
Also, in addition to a savings bond, Uncle Dave got Bella a couple of books. One is a puffy book and this one is a hand puppet with a book attached. The book is Old MacDonald and each of the fingers is a different animal (duck, cat, dog, pig, cow). Bella LOVES it!!! She'll play with it herself for a while but if someone is wearing it and she can flip through the pages and play with the animals, she'll sit there all day.
This is the book that Mommy and Daddy got her. The first book we ever read her was a small copy of "On the Night You Were Born." Bella really likes and and has chewed up the book a bit so we found her a full-sized copy of it for her bookcase.
This is the cake that Welly brought up from Alice, TX. The Tiny One kept putting her hand in the icing while we tried to take this picture, and you can see Mom doing her best to keep her clean and sugar-free.
Daddy's beautiful girls!
Saturday night, everyone hit the town! Here are the ladies of our party (the guys weren't really as easy to look at). Everyone left at some point the next day and everyone has gotten home safely. We'd like to thank everyone who came and gave us a tremendous time as well as everyone who sent Bella their thoughts throughout the weekend!
Thanks for visiting!
Also, in addition to a savings bond, Uncle Dave got Bella a couple of books. One is a puffy book and this one is a hand puppet with a book attached. The book is Old MacDonald and each of the fingers is a different animal (duck, cat, dog, pig, cow). Bella LOVES it!!! She'll play with it herself for a while but if someone is wearing it and she can flip through the pages and play with the animals, she'll sit there all day.
This is the book that Mommy and Daddy got her. The first book we ever read her was a small copy of "On the Night You Were Born." Bella really likes and and has chewed up the book a bit so we found her a full-sized copy of it for her bookcase.
This is the cake that Welly brought up from Alice, TX. The Tiny One kept putting her hand in the icing while we tried to take this picture, and you can see Mom doing her best to keep her clean and sugar-free.
Daddy's beautiful girls!
Saturday night, everyone hit the town! Here are the ladies of our party (the guys weren't really as easy to look at). Everyone left at some point the next day and everyone has gotten home safely. We'd like to thank everyone who came and gave us a tremendous time as well as everyone who sent Bella their thoughts throughout the weekend!Thanks for visiting!
Bella's Baptism (Part 2)
We're only allowed to put up 5 pictures per post so here's some more!
This is Bella and her Welly in the post-baptism photo-shoot.
Here are "Uncle" Joe and "Aunt" Tarah.
We just really like this one...
After the baptism, we went home to open presents. Bella received her first Tiffany's blue box from her Aunt Tarah - clearly she's a fan. Daddy knows he's in trouble because she likes boys and jewelry!
In addition to a savings bond for her college fund, Uncle Joe did Daddy a solid by getting Bella a 3-pack of New York Giants onesies! Mom and Dad have agreed on every sport but the NFL and Uncle Joe put in his two-cents on Daddy's side. For those of you who are curious:
Baseball:
1) Whatever team Abuelo works for (currently the Twins)
2) New York Yankees
College Football:
1) Texas Longhorns
2) UConn Huskies
College Basketball:
1) UConn Huskies
2) Texas Longhorns
This is Bella and her Welly in the post-baptism photo-shoot.
Here are "Uncle" Joe and "Aunt" Tarah.
We just really like this one...
After the baptism, we went home to open presents. Bella received her first Tiffany's blue box from her Aunt Tarah - clearly she's a fan. Daddy knows he's in trouble because she likes boys and jewelry!
In addition to a savings bond for her college fund, Uncle Joe did Daddy a solid by getting Bella a 3-pack of New York Giants onesies! Mom and Dad have agreed on every sport but the NFL and Uncle Joe put in his two-cents on Daddy's side. For those of you who are curious:Baseball:
1) Whatever team Abuelo works for (currently the Twins)
2) New York Yankees
College Football:
1) Texas Longhorns
2) UConn Huskies
College Basketball:
1) UConn Huskies
2) Texas Longhorns
Bella's Baptism (Part 1)
Bella was baptized this weekend and it was really a great time. Bella's "Uncles" Joe and Dave came to visit as did her Welly, her Aunt Emma and her "Aunt" Tarah. As requested, we took lots of pictures so I'll just post them here and write a bit about each one.
The church we had Bella baptized at is right around the corner from our house and has a great congregation. Because we had her baptized on a Saturday morning though, it was just us. This baptismal font is in the area outside of the church itself in a the waiting area. The ceremony was about 15 minutes long and was videotaped by Joe - we'll try to get that posted as well!
I'm crediting her swim lessons with how well she took the water during the ceremony. She was a little surprised that we went from talking to her to dousing her but she took it in stride.
I'm not sure if they call them "Baptismal Parties" like they do at weddings but from left to right you have Aunt Emma (Bella's Godmother), Mommy, Father Jack, The Girl of the Hour, Daddy, and "Uncle" Dave (Bella's Godfather). Father Jack is a funny dude - when he first saw Bella, he said to her, "Don't you look beautiful, are you tired of being a little pagan?"
Isabella Kristine - child of Tiffany, Paul, and now God!
The church we had Bella baptized at is right around the corner from our house and has a great congregation. Because we had her baptized on a Saturday morning though, it was just us. This baptismal font is in the area outside of the church itself in a the waiting area. The ceremony was about 15 minutes long and was videotaped by Joe - we'll try to get that posted as well!
I'm crediting her swim lessons with how well she took the water during the ceremony. She was a little surprised that we went from talking to her to dousing her but she took it in stride. 
I'm not sure if they call them "Baptismal Parties" like they do at weddings but from left to right you have Aunt Emma (Bella's Godmother), Mommy, Father Jack, The Girl of the Hour, Daddy, and "Uncle" Dave (Bella's Godfather). Father Jack is a funny dude - when he first saw Bella, he said to her, "Don't you look beautiful, are you tired of being a little pagan?"
Isabella Kristine - child of Tiffany, Paul, and now God!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Just to hold you over...
Tiffany and I are going to St. Louis for the week for a conference. Isabella is coming with us and her Welly is meeting us there to babysit for a couple days. Unfortunately, we'll be too busy to update anything so here's a picture that's about 3 weeks old to keep you entertained for the time being. This is from when Tiffany was in Chicago and I was having a couple days of Daddy-daughter time before we flew to Austin. I took this picture mid-tubby to send to Tiffany and make her jealous: hope it does the same for you all!
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