Brian & Mandy's 6 Queens-Girls just having fun...: Salfer Sacramental Saturday & Sunday

We started off last weekend with the wedding celebration of our nephew, the oldest grandkid on the Salfer side, John and his love Gina. Despite the cold weather and snow on the ground, they had a beautiful wedding. The ceremony was by far my favorite of all weddings I've been to. During the lighting of the unity candle, John, while blowing out his candle, accidentally blew out the unity candle. Then on the way back to Gina's mom, John stepped on Gina's dress. It was classic! While Gina was hugging her mom, she was handed a lighter and went back and quickly lit the unity candle. Everyone got quite the laugh. They were such great sports about it all. Caitlin and Emily helped at the reception. Natalie and Rachel were regulars at the chocolate fountain! Lauren was a great baby. Had to nurse her in the bridal room at the church in front of the bride and bridesmaids and then nursed her at the end of the reception while trying to be moved out of our spot while they were getting the dance floor ready. It was embarrassing and funny all at the same time. I should be making a list of all the wierd and inopportune times/places I've had to feed Lauren. It's getting to be a long list! The girls, Brian and I had such a fun time at the dance. All the cousins were dancing and some even trying to learn to Polka. When we left the dance we walked out to snow flurries. Oh man...will this winter ever leave us alone?

While we were enjoying our yummy food at the reception, our other nephew Caleb was being confirmed back in Wabasso. So a wedding and confirmation on Saturday and then why not throw Lauren's baptism in too? :)

The oldest and youngest Salfer Grandchildren

So after a long night of having fun, we slept in and got ourselves ready for Lauren's baptism. We decided to have her baptism take place at our church's LifeTeen mass in the evening because Brian is a core team member in the LifeTeen program and we've gotten to know quite a lot of teens in the past few years. Also, mass was at 5:30pm so we could sleep in! We had invited everyone to come to our house in the early afternoon for cake and food. It was nice to visit and relax. We then headed to the church for the baptism. Lauren did great...no crying :)