{"id":1554,"date":"2011-05-22T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2012-01-12T04:54:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T04:54:38","slug":"alisons-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/2011\/05\/alisons-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison’s Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we got the notice that our Pastor, Rev. Ryan Barnett, was going to transfer to another church at the beginning of the summer, we jumped on the schedule to baptize Alison before he left. You see, Ryan has been a meaningful friend and Pastor to us, and we didn’t want to let him slip away without doing us the honor of baptizing Ali. Ryan also knows the Alison that our daughter was named for<\/a>, so it was symbolic for us to have Ryan bring our Alison into the church where we first met her namesake.<\/p>\n

The other meaningful element was to have Papa Roy (Rev. Roy Wold) assist in the baptism, just like he did with Reed. It means so much to have him as part of the family, that we want him to be a part of all these events as long as he is around. He is about 96 now and we are blessed every year that he is still with us.<\/p>\n

The ceremony went well. Julie had Ali dressed in long white gown that she had purchased months ago. We hope to keep it and pass it on to future girls in the family. Reed behaved himself pretty well through the service and even gave the crowd some laughs when he patted Ali’s head gently and when he kept trying the put the lip gloss on me that he insisted on holding.<\/p>\n

Check out the pics and video below.<\/p>\n

-RB<\/p>\n