full house

no, not the crappy 80s TV show. saturday matt, alice, and i had quite a few visitors over for dinner and some gab. 20 of us crammed into our tiny little condo for a few hours and actually it went a lot better than i thought it would. sure it was cramped, but i don't think anyone was uncomfortable.

what's with all the company? well the fam was in town for one very special reason, alice's baptism. after many scheduling conflicts we were finally able to settle on getting her baptized at 7 months old, even though i would have liked to have done it sooner but what can you do?

lucky for us GG (that's great-grandma rice to you) took really great care of grandpa rice's baptismal gown and alice was able to wear it (just like mommy and several other relatives). unfortunately the gown is so delicate that just holding her before the service we seemed to have put a tear in one of the arms. luckily our pastor allowed me to hold alice over the baptismal font for i was afraid just the extra passing around would cause the gown to deteriorate even further. then after they paraded us around the church (seriously), we took her outside and changed her. jessica took some pics of alice before we undressed her, but i'll have to wait until she sends them to me to post.

after church was over we all headed to my mother in law's house for grub. thankfully she was kind enough to offer up her house for the reception because there is no way we could have fit 60+ people at our house! good food was had by all and the cicadas didn't bother us...much. my ears were ringing for hours after i went inside.

all in all it was a pretty fun day and i'm glad so many people were able to come (although i did miss a certain baby, but i know she would have come if it had been possible).

alice received many special gifts, but one that mommy will for sure cherish forever is the quilt that jessica made. if it looks familiar it's because jess used the left over fabric from my mother's quilt that she made when mom was sick. same pattern and everything. i'll be sure to tell alice when she's older just how special it is.