Saturday, May 2, 2009

Rachel's Milestones

This was a fun and exciting day in Rachel's life! Today she was baptized and confirmed by her dad. We had a wonderful day. Before and after the baptism, Rachel wore a dress that Grandma Packer had made for her. She was so beautiful! She looked like a princess.

Here is the front view:And the back is just as beautiful (the picture just doesn't do it justice!):Here are Grandma and Grandpa Packer with the kids before the baptism. Sophie's been keeping Grandma and Grandpa busy! She keeps insisting that they play hide and seek with her and jump on the "tram-a-boing" with her.
Rachel wore a vintage baptism dress that my mom had made for me when I was baptized over 30 years ago.
Here I am on my baptism day in the same dress:
Here's Rachel with her proud papa!
The baptismal service was beautiful. There were two other girls baptized, too. Rachel was so excited to be baptized. She wasn't even a little bit nervous to go into the water like I was when I was baptized! She said the water was warm, but the air outside of the font was freezing! She was very grateful for the warm, cozy special "baptism towel" Grandma Lacey had sent to her. Rachel said she felt really good inside the whole day.

After the baptism, we had a little party at our house with all of the people who had attended the baptism. We had all of Rachel's favorite foods--no-bake cookies, brownies, a fruit platter, cream puffs, pound cake with strawberries, as well as Mom and Dad's favorite--"cowboy caviar" salsa and chips.
Here is Rachel (she changed her dress so she could eat!) with a few of her friends:
Rachel, we love you and are so proud of you!

7 comments:

Tara said...

Congratulations to Rachel! I loved being at the baptism. She looked so sweet in her beautiful white dress.

Kristy said...

Rachel, you looked beautiful! I loved both of your dresses! You looked like an angel in the one Grandma Packer made. We wish we could have been there. We are very proud of you!

Matt and Carla said...

What a special day for everyone especially Rachel! That is so neat that she wore your baptism dress for the actual baptism and she looked very beautiful in the new one g-ma made for her as well! All of these little ones maturing and growing up so fast, can't believe it.

Tami said...

So sweet, love the pictures!

Jackie said...

What a wonderful day for Rachel. She looks so pretty in the beautiful baptism dress that her grandma make for her.

Char said...

Love the 2 generation picture in the dress. What a neat thing!

Anonymous said...

Nice now lets lead the little virgin to our van and we feed her candy and give her a 6 man gangbang. She can tell church all about it