Marlo's Baby Dedication

The next event of the day was Marlo's baby dedication.  This is an event at our church where families consciously commit to raising their children in a way that brings them up loving Christ and instilling values that go along with that.  Each set of parents had to come up with 5 goals/values that we wanted to raise our child with and a plan for achieving them.  Our 5 for Marlo were for her to..

1. have confidence in who she is
2. make good choices in who she hangs out with
3. respect others and be respected
4. love God and trust in Him always
5. have a compassionate and caring heart

Some things we plan on doing to achieve these goals are family dinners, praying with our children, date nights with individual kids, church and small group involvement, and giving financially and of our time.

When reflecting on our goals and the kind of parents we want to be and the children we hope to raise, we always are SO thankful for the solid, loving homes we were raised in.  We were both given a gift of growing up in amazing families and we could not feel more blessed to have that as a foundation for the kind of home we hope to create.

Marlo and Oma talking

Liam and Grandma

I know we are celebrating, but this sure is exhausting...

The whole crew...so thankful they could all make it and we got a pretty decent picture

Dad and Luke

FINALLY, cupcake time!!

Daddy time

Our sweet, beautiful girl

Ok, we have been quite long enough..

A little blurry but the best picture we have of the 4 of us