The Mohnackys: The Holiest Hedgehog

Last Saturday I woke up to Mark saying 'Let's get this goose sinless!' with a quite a bit more energy than he usually has at that hour. We were both pretty excited to celebrate Makenna's baptism with our family, friends, and tacos. . .lots of tacos, on what turned out to be a pretty beautiful day. Since we had our hands full most of the time, we left the picture taking to the pros (Vince and Tara) and are so glad we did because we got some pretty nice shots of the day.

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to have a practice run before the real deal so I tossed the goose into the whale of a tub and splashed some water on her head before she suited up in the first of her three outfit changes for the day. Based on the pic below I'd say she handled it pretty well, and looked much like this during the actual dunking too (yup, she slept through it and only looked mildly annoyed when they poured the water on her head).

The Deacon opened by saying this was a celebration of the children, so even if they cry, fuss, yell or poo don't leave because that's what they were born to do. But while a little toy car cruised down the aisle and a mother wrangled her runaway son on the altar Makenna just sat there mildly amused until she got bored and decided to snooze through the rest of the ceremony and pictures. No complaints here!

Dress made by Mark's Aunt Maureen

The Deacon doin' work

The fam getting in on the action

Godparents

Most of the crew

After the ceremony we headed back to our house and had a great crowd of almost 50 people for lunch. The baptism just happened to land on the annual community garage sale day so our guests had to park a little further away than usual, but on the upside they could pick up a used coffee maker on the walk over.