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Samantha was washing her hands yesterday with her Funny Berry soap. She told me that her hands “smell like delicious.”

And just because I like this picture:

The color of Ellie’s eyes.

We are very blessed. We had the choice of 3 gowns for Ellie’s baptism.

We have the gown that me and my siblings were baptized in. It has also been used for some Burns grandkids, including Samantha as shown below.

The slip has been embroidered with each baptism name and date. It begins with Elisabeth Noel in 1976 and ends with Patrick Jacob in 2008.

We have the gown that Brian and his siblings were baptized in. This was the gown that Ellie was baptized in. Here is a letter dated on Brian’s BIRTHday from his maternal grandparents.

Isn’t that a lovely letter? And here’s Ellie in the gown:

We have the gown that Brian’s maternal grandfather (Leonard in the above letter) was baptized in. Brian’s great-grandmother, Agnes Eckl, made the gown. His grandfather was the youngest of 5 children, so I’m not exactly sure of the gown’s age. It’s at least 83 years old.

We had a wonderful mass and baptism for Ellie!  Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate with us.  It’s too bad it was incredibly hot and humid.

“I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.”  She barely flinched!

“Receive the Light of Christ.”

And the group shot, minus sneaky Uncle Mark and Aunt Martha.  How is it that he always skips out on pictures?

Aunt Lizzie gave Samantha a Mr. Potato Head family for her birthday last year.  She really likes it.  Lately, when she’s finished dressing them up, she’ll line them all up and tell me to take a picture.  Each one has a name (Mommy, Daddy, Sam and Ellie).  We went to the McWane Science Center recently where they had a Mr. Potato Head exhibit.  With all the Toy Story 3 stuff, Mr. Potato Head seems everywhere.  Here are some of her creations.

(I helped with the Mommy one in the above picture, but all the others she did by herself.)