Another soul saved...

On October the 8th, Saxon was baptized at First United Methodist church here in Albuquerque. It took Shawn and I a little while to find a church in which we were comfortable, and we really like this one. Our friends Courtney and Haden agreed to be godparents and flew out from Texas for the ceremony, and Shawn's colleague Jake and his family also came to support us. We have gotten to be quite good friends with Jake and his wife Amber, and their children Mitchell, Nedra and Clara, who are a riot! Mom and Dad came too of course, and Saxon was on his best behavior all through the ceremony. All the old church ladies just loved him.
We dressed him in this super cute christening outfit made out of silk shantung. Yes, that's right, I knowingly put a 6 month old baby in a dry-clean only silk shantung outfit. And he was in it for a whole 4 hours, and did not irrevocably soil said outfit. Call it the first miracle of Saxon's Christian life.
Afterward we went to brunch at a restaurant in old town, where Saxon decided he was hungry. I hadn't brought any food with me, but that didn't stop him. He decided he needed more fiber in his diet and the wooden table was as good a place as any to get it. Apparently the varnish was quite tasty -- we had a hard time keeping him away from it.


Coming up next post -- the balloon fiesta!!!