November 30 = Malia's Baptism Day!

Our little baby girl was baptized today!  Liam was baptized on Christmas Eve which was really neat.  We wanted to do something neat for Malia too so we chose the weekend of Thanksgiving since that's Zachary's favorite holiday.  Pops did both baptisms which is also really special.  Here's another picture overload post but what a special day!

Liam on the way to sister's baptism.  Spoiler alert- he was moved to his car seat before the car was turned on.

Pops and his associate pastor, Meagan, reenacting the baptism:

 Here's everyone that came especially for Malia's baptism: All the grandparents and both uncles (Pops was greeting the church members at the time this picture was taken), The Mercados, Great Aunt Shari, Great Aunt Mary and Great Uncle Tim, Great Aunts Pat, Lynn, Deanie and Betty, cousins Brooke and Callie and Uncle Matty's girlfriend, Rachel.  We are so blessed to have so many people who took the time to travel to share this special day with us.

If we posted a perfect picture with everyone looking at the camera and happy, it just wouldn't be representative of our family so let's just embrace the truth!

Grandma and Pops very graciously hosted a lunch at their house afterwards so friends and family could continue celebrating Malia's special day.  Here are the three Citadel grads:

A sweet picture of Grandma and Malia:

 And a rare, wonderful picture of Grammy and Malia:

Malia and Great Aunt Shari- she has the magic touch!

 Malia with her maternal great aunts:

The star of the day:

 And the exhaustion sets in:




And two more pictures.  This first one is special because we took the same one almost two years prior at Liam's baptism.  Too bad I couldn't remember which family was on which side- oh well.

 

And when Zachary saw this picture it reminded him of another picture he took of me and Liam a while ago.  He said, very sweetly, that most every thing looked the same except I look a lot more tired.  True.  Very true.