Alexa's Christening

This past Sunday Alexa was christened at our church. It was a wonderful day and we welcomed her into the church family. She did so well. Life is never predictable with a four month old, so we weren't sure. But she was soooo precious. She didn't protest a bit when the priest poured the baptismal water over her head. Her eyes got big and she looked at her daddy and the priest as if to say, "What's going on?" But not a peep.

Thanks to Alexa's Auntie Kelly, we have some great pictures of the day. And her Uncle Dale did a fabulous job of videotaping it, but I have not yet figured out how to convert that so it's viewable on the web. I'll put it on my list of things to do, I promise.

In the meantime, hopefully this will suffice:



Granny and Poppy entertained Alexa before service began.



Alexa's Momma, Oma, Poppy, Daddy, Granny (Godmother) and Uncle Patrick (Godfather) all got to participate!



Mommy's finger was a terrific snack while Alexa waited for the fun part.



Alexa isn't so sure about what's coming next...



And finally, the moment we all waited for.



Getting baptised takes a lot out of a girl!




Auntie Kelly and Uncle Patrick with Alexa



The precious Campbell family.











Our precious nephew and niece, Smiley and Christabelle. He's such a loving big brother and cousin!













Proud mama and papa.










The Alsup Clan.

















The Hall Clan.








Everyone together. Left to right: Granny (my mom), Smiley, Lisa holding CJ, Dale, me (April), Patrick, Alexa (being held by Matt), Kelly, Poppy (Matt's dad) & Oma (Matt's mom)






Whew... that was a lot of uploading. Remember: if you want to save and print a picture, click on the picture. This will take you to a larger version of it. Then right click on it and click on Save as... or Save Picture as.... Then save it where you want to on your computer.

Love,
April

Pictures...

Here are the Halloween pics we had taken. I finally remembered to post them. If you would like to save them for printing, just click on an image. It will open in a new screen and be a higher resolution file. Then right click on it and click "save".

It was a Spooktacular Halloween

After a traumatic episode early in the week in which a motorcyclist terrified Alexa at a pumpkin patch, we decided to take her in for pictures with a pro. I promise to post some of those tomorrow. I forgot I don't have the files on this computer. But I do have some other pictures.

We celebrated the evening by decorating and handing out treats. Matt really got into the spirit and made the house look great. The precious little 3 year old a few doors down calls it the spooky house now, but it looked great just the same and I think the handful of Snickers and M&Ms will convince her we're not terrible people.


Then Oma and Poppy (Matt's parents) came by, on their way to Patrick and Kelly's, to see our little pumpkin and get in some sugars. Oma even dressed up for the occassion! We took Alexa over to see her Uncle Patrick and Aunt Kelly, but forgot our camera. Hopefully her sweet and leveable aunt will send me a copy of the ones we took with her camera =).

On Saturday I took her to her Granny's house where she got to play with her cousin CJ. Ok, they just look at each other and wonder right now. But playing is just around the corner. Lisa and I decided to dress them up for a group picture. They made a really cute bunny and pumpkin, I must say.

They also took a picture with their delighted granny! Then they and we got to relax. Matt was at the game for the evening. So Alexa and I shared dinner with mom, Lisa and CJ then headed home, with a stop by our good friends, Cam & Timmy's house so Alexa could get in some last minute trick or treating. Once we got home she of course wanted to watch the Gamecocks clobber TN (sorry to my lovely family in TN). Obviously Alexa is going to be a daddy's girl since she loooooves football.

I promise to have her little glamour shots posted soon.

Love,
April

It's Celebration Time!

This week has been full of fun. On Tuesday evening, Matt and I took Alexa to the fair for her first time. We thought she'd be taken by all of the lights. But the people seemed to interest her more. Not even the ducks proved to be as entertaining. Here are some pictures from our trip:


Whoa, look at all these people... with hair!


Mommy has me, but I'd like to have a funnel cake, please.


Daddy won her, her first fair animal (it's the white tiger)


Then she started getting tuckered


Two seconds later


The fun whirled on around her, but she was oblivious


On Wednesday my side of the family had a group birthday dinner. We didn't get a chance to get together for my birthday in September, so we got together on Dale's birthday and celebrated mine, Dale's, and Matt's. It's neat to see CJ and Alexa become more aware of each other.


Who is THAT?


How come that baby has no hair?


What a sweet big-cousin!


Who is this strange uncle of mine?


Bouncy time!


Rockin with Granny

That's all for now. I'm amazed I managed to get photos on her within days of them being taken... WOO HOO!!

I have some new videos for everyone. The first is our precious little niece who is almost exactly 3 weeks younger than Alexa. Christabelle stopped in with her family on the way home from getting her shots and got a little hungry. So she's shaking her head back and forth...




And here is another one of Alexa unable to keep her eyes open in the middle of a feeding...


Her onsie is curtesy her doting Oma.

As for an update, I should probably knock on some wood before posting this, but the past weekend went very well. Friday night Alexa slept 9 hours straight. Saturday it was 8 hours and Sunday it was another 9. So we had a very Blessed and restful weekend!

Poor little Christabelle didn't rest quite as well. It seems like the rest comes in waves. One night they sleep straight through, the next they need comforting or feeding every couple of hours... Bless their precious little hearts!

Odds and Ends

Matt recently had a conference in Atlanta and Alexa and I tagged along so daddy wouldn't get lonely. :o) We just bummed around the hotel and the ritzy neighborhood that was around the corner. I took some pictures of her in her cute little cherry outfit and I thought I'd share. I even learned how to use the timer to get a picture of the two of us!


Alexa was just waking up from a nap. Gotta get in a good stretch!


Yay, it's play time again!

Sleepy Head

I took this video of Alexa the other day. She fell asleep while she was eating and this was just too irresistible to not video. Here it is:



April

PS I know the lighting is bad... Sorry!