Family Dedication

It was a big weekend, what with a birthday party, Mother's Day, and Henry's dedication at church!  What a special time!  I love the way our church does family dedications--especially how the church sang to Henry as our pastor walked him up and down the aisle for everyone to see.  He was very serious, but he did not, to my surprise (and Jason's slight disappointment) wail on his trip.

 

 

 There are so many babies in our church right now that dedications are a pretty regular occurrence--in fact, Henry's dedication was the third in three weeks, with more on the way!  It was so special to participate in it from the other angle--to be the ones being reminded about our own commitment to each other and to God, to be admonished to love each other and to hold Henry loosely because he belongs to God and not us, to hear the congregation commit to coming alongside us to raise Henry to be a godly man.  It was very awesome.  Such a cool thing to share with family and friends!

So glad that Dawn and Brian and boys could come!

And extra nice to do on Mother's Day, especially because Jason and I both got to spend the day with our own mothers!  And, by the way, I have a much higher reverence for Mother's Day after a year of experiencing it first hand.  This motherhood thing is not for the faint of heart...

Our only mother-son pic for the day.  Captures reality so perfectly...