Just a blog about a Cardinals fan and Reds fan that fell in love, got a dog, moved to Louisville, bought a house and got married. Follow along for quite a ride.
This past weekend we were lucky enough to bring our friends and family together for Henry's baptism. We recently joined a small, local Presbyterian church near our house and were welcomed by a wonderful family there. Here's a few pictures from the special day.
Henry being baptized.
After the baptism, the pastor walked Henry around the sanctuary and spoke about baptism and about his new church family.
Henry is lucky enough to have two amazing godparents. We selected friends from our life that were very important to us. We wanted to extend the title of godparent to people that we wanted to be a part of our extended family. Kate chose Emily Augustine, whom she's been friends with since first grade. Nick chose Matt Gold, a friend since high school that he played volleyball with. We feel so blessed to have these amazing people in Henry's life.
That's amazing. I think we should all be so lucky. We should be so lucky to live to 100. We should be so lucky to know our great-grandmother. We should be so lucky to have our great-grandmother in our life for 28 years. We should be so lucky to have our son meet his great-great-grandmother.
I am fortunate to have many of the above statements be true. Back in June when we were in St Louis Henry got to meet Nana (as we all call her.) Here is that amazing picture from that amazing experience:
While holding him Nana said "Here we are Henry. The beginning and the end." It was such a poignant moment and so very true. There was something very special about seeing this amazing nearly 100 year old woman with an infant.
A few days later we went back for a very special picture of five generations of my family. It included Nana, my grandmother, my father, myself and Henry. This is a picture not many people have and it is very special to me.
Ok, I just looked and realized that I hadn't posted in a few weeks. And it just so happens that coincides exactly with the start of football camp. So I am sorry. Although there aren't people waking up every morning running to their computer to see if we posted, I know some family members are enjoying the blog. So, sorry about the lack of posts. Like I said, football camp started along with volleyball practice. So Kate would go to volleyball in the morning, come home for the afternoon and head back to football when Nick got home until after 9pm. Needless to say we were tired, busy, and spare time was hopefully spent with each other and doing chores.
Camp is over though, school starts Tuesday and I have my first game tonight. So although the past few weeks have been tough, tonight makes it all worth it. These will be the moments I truly love my job. It's so fun being on the sidelines for the games. I can't count the times I've been told by people how "I don't envy you" or "You must have no life." But I love my job. I love seeing all the practices that happen all week come together in games. I love seeing hurt athletes get better and get back on the field. I love seeing athletes conquer a new skill. I love everything about athletics. I can't imagine doing anything else.
So we have some catching up to do with the weekly pictures. We were in St. Louis for the 7 & 8 week pictures so that's why we are behind. We love these so far and really can tell how much he is growing when we look at them.
