The Warnock Family Blog: Ava's Baptism

We had Ava baptised on November 22 at Christ Church here in Des Plaines. My Mom made Ava's gown, jacket, bonnet and blanket and Ava wore the slip to my baptism gown as well and she looked beautiful ( We are having her professional baptism picture done hopefully next weekend and I will post pictures when I get them). We picked my sister Katie to be Godmother and Matt's younger brother Jon as Godfather. It was a lovely service and Pastor Erikson was so very happy for us, just as she did with Logan she got all choked up as she was doing the baptism. Of course Pastor Erikson has known me for many years, she confirmed me, married me, and now is baptising my children so I know it means a lot to her. We had a small lunch following the service which turned out very nice and we were so happy to have Ava's Great-Grandma and Grandpa Pable come up from Arkansas to finally meet her and be at her baptism.

Unfortunately, we were unable to do a big luncheon for the Baptism, we just don't have the space inside our house (and in November no one is going to be outside!) and we just didn't have the money to have all our extended family celebrate with us (and we have a very large family as I am sure you all know). We wish we could have invited everyone we wanted too but it really is an issue of space and money and Matt and I both made sacrifices on both sides of our family. So we just did our close family members for her Baptism and we hope everyone understands. We are planning on doing the big first birthday bash like we did with Logan so don't worry, we just have to find a place to hold it that will fit everyone! So I will leave you all with some pictures from the baptism and as soon as I have her professional pictures I will get them up!