Weekend Fun

The Lady of Honor!!

The Libutti Family flew out to Michigan this weekend to attend Baby Kate's baptism. Such fun! We had a great time, even though Mommy was a little nervous about how the whole flight/shuttle/drive was going to go both getting there and returning.




Chillin' on the plane ride out



Turned out I had nothing to worry about... we had smooth sailing both times, though Jenna did throw a Mother of All Tantrums at the Detroit Metro Airport Security Gate, which was seen and enjoyed by all. (The crowning moment was when Jenna, in her stocking feet because she refused to put her shoes back on, got off one of the moving walkways in the terminal, turned around, stuck out her little pointer finger and screamed at the walkway, "You're STUPID!!!" It was lovely. And once again I look at her and think, how can my sweet, shy little Jenna get so incredibly angry?? You should have seen the looks on the faces of the other passengers as we approached the gate to board- I was carrying a screaming crying Jenna parallel to the the floor, face down, with her legs kicking. But she was fine once we got seated on the plane and had no other problems.)



The baptism was beautiful, of course and I'm going to let Brian and Beth post all the good pictures from the ceremony and of their beautiful little girl. Brian baptized her and it was all very moving. Add on to that it was Palm Sunday, one of my favorite church services of the year, and it was a hankies-all-around kind of moment. Brian led all the children of the congregation through the sanctuary waving palms and Jenna, Michaela and Cousin Katie joined right in!







Jenna, Michaela, and Cousin Katie

(my cousin Eric's daughter, not to be confused with Cousin Kate)

Jenna peeking through the palms

It was so nice to see Brian's church- big and open and a beautiful space- and hear the Senior Pastor preach. After the service we went back to Brian and Beth's house for a day-long party that was really fun and relaxing and great family time together.

Beth thought it would be fun to color Easter Eggs while we were there and that was lots of fun.

In the Bundalo Family tradition, each kid gets a dozen eggs to color.

Uncle Brian worked the Spin An Egg machine, which we all experimented with.

The award-winning eggs

The girls did a bang-up job of making different designs and Beth even made them little award ribbons for the Most Beautiful, Most Creative, and Most Artistic. Amazingly, it turned out that each girl got one of the ribbons. I love it when things work out that way!

They even each got Easter baskets, which were hidden and then found using the Davies Traditional Hot/Cold Method. Here's Michaela helping Jenna find hers.

The next day we visited for a while at the house (which, by the way, pictures don't do justice... it was big and homey and I instantly felt comfortable there. That house has some of the best Karma I've ever felt in a house.) and then Brian took us for a guided tour of the whole church/ school/ church offices complex across the street. There's nothing liker seeing with your own eyes what you've been imagining for two years!

We really had such a great time, I left wanting to immediately go back... so Dan and I started talking already about when our next trip out there will be... maybe in the fall.

Rock on, Detroit!!

Thanks to Brian and Beth for making our trip such a success and being perfect hosts.

We so appreciate all you did to make us and the girls feel comfortable and welcome...

they will be talking about our trip for months!