11.02.2008

Dedication and Birthday Celebration

We had Joe's baby dedication at church today. We had a dinner at our house afterward and decided to celebrate Joe's 1st birthday! He loved the cupcakes as you can tell! We were so sad to miss Joe's actual birthday, but knew we could celebrate once he was home. We did this in style...




Singing Happy Birthday to Joe - he had no clue what was going on and had already scored a cookie from Cousin Val (in photo), so he didn't care about the rest!

The yummy cupcakes - they turned out so cute. We made the bear as a family this summer for Joe during the wait to bring him home.

We dedicated Joe to the Lord today at our church service. We promised to bring him up in the knowledge of the Lord. It is our desire for our boys to know and desire a relationship with Jesus. While this is an awesome task, we are committed to it with the help of the Lord! Dan's Uncle Ed is our Pastor. He married Dan and I and also did Sam's dedication. It makes our occasions that much more special.
Dan also chose a special song and his Praise and Worship team sang it -Let my Life Be a Light. We were honored to have many family memebers present for this - thanks for coming!

Can you believe this is our first photo of the four of us since we've been home? I love these boys, not a dull moment!