Baptism

Emily's baptism was Sunday, and there are pictures of her in her pretty dress posted at the picasa website. She was beautiful and calm and quiet, and the congregation laughed when she moved the minister's hand off her head during the blessing. I guess the humor was that she looked up at his hand first, then slowly reached up and moved it off her head. Her grandmother was in tears, because she looked so much like her dad when he was baptised. It was a really nice moment for all of us together.

Then we came back to the house and partied all weekend long!! There were about 15 of us here for lunch - my parents, trav's parents, mommo and poppo, jenny's family, kerri, mark, and pat. It was crazy, but lots of fun. Emily received some very thoughtful and special gifts for her baptism, and it was a wonderful weekend. I have spent all week recovering, though, both myself and the house, but it was well worth it and I'm glad everything worked out the way it did.

Monday, I got out on my bike for the first time, which actually went pretty well. I've got a long ways to go before I've got the strength to do a full day of Ragbrai, but I wouldn't say it's much worse than other years, actually. I'm thinking I'll pick out Tuesday mornings to go biking, because Amanda said she has an opening to watch Emily while I go out. Now, to pick out a suitable route from her house, which I think should be fairly easy since it's so far on the west side of town.

And, yesterday was Travis's birthday, so I made him dinner and he had a Guinness. Then we went to bed by 10:00. Man, we're old!!