madelyn's dedication

today was madelyn's baby dedication at church. (okay - there were other kids there too...) matt and i had to go to a class about a week ago and shoot a video introduction of our family and why we were doing the dedication. we were lucky to have nana (GG) visiting us this weekend. (and you are lucky she was visiting too!) thanks to nana we have a video of today's service to share with you! and this lovely family picture prior to church starting. madelyn did pretty well during the service, especially because she had gotten up earlier than normal and was being really cranky before we left the house. she spent most of our time on the stage waving to the guitar player behind us. then once the praying started that was when she decided that she couldn't wait any longer to get down and touch the speaker in front of us (towards the end of the video). luckily, i was able to shift her position in a way that kept her from leaping out of my hold. (note: we are the first family to the left of the speaker (your left).

i also scanned a copy of the program insert that has madelyn's information on it so that i could post it here. i didn't think that they would put the full body shot in the program, i thought that they would crop it down to a head shot. oh well. it is nice to know that they worked with whatever we had to give them.

lots more has been going on here with nana visiting, but i had to get this up quickly for maddie's grandparents who couldn't be here today for the dedication and really wanted to be! there are more maddie updates to come soon! love.