My littlest child of God

I really wanted Julia to be baptized at my home church in Buena Park, CA, where Tim and I were married. So Jen and I decided to have Caroline and Julia baptized together! They were baptized (along with 14 other kids!) on July 6, 2008, my 6th wedding anniversary! I am Caroline's Godmother (Jen and my cousin Char are Godmothers to Thomas). Julia's Godfather is my Uncle Gilbert (my Mom's brother) and Julia's Godmothers are Uncle Gilbert's wife Fortune and my own Godmother's daughter Theresa Drew Falk (below in the multi-colored dress). It worked out that Tessa (what we have always called Theresa) was going to be in Southern CA for a visit while her husband Chris was in a seminar in Northern CA. I still can't believe we were able to see eachother twice in one year, unfortunately our first visit together was for her mother's funeral. But the second visit was so special with Tessa becoming Godmother to Julia, just as her mom was my Godmother.

Julia and Caroline wore beautiful long baptismal gowns my mom's friend brought back from the Philippines, just for the girls! Thomas and Matthew, who where baptized at our church here in GA, wore the same short white baptism gown, but these girls had the long traditional gowns...

Julia in her gown

Caroline and Julia

Jen, Russ, Caroline, Tim, me, Julia, Tessa, Gilbert, Fortune and Father Ted at the baptismal pool
Baptized girls with Grandma and Papa

2008 Summer Vacation

We usually take one big summer vacation each year, usually out to CA to visit my family. This year we drove up to Monterey Bay for a few days. "We" includes everyone in my family, my sister Jen, her husband Russ, and their daughter Caroline, my Mom and Dad, and my two cousins on my Mom's side, Christine and Colleen. Needless to say, we needed two mini-vans. The drive up took 8 hours! But we stopped in Santa Barbara for a potty break and then again in Solvang to eat breakfast.

Monterey was so pretty! I just love being by the ocean, hopefully one day we'll be close again. We visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where the pictures below were taken. We saw the craziest fish called Sunfish. I bought Caroline and Julia matching socks with sunfish on them. Caroline and Julia are 2 1/2 months apart, but Caroline outweighs my petite girl by about 5 pounds! Caroline loved running around with Thomas and Matthew-she could keep up with all the playing by the time our 3 week visit with her was over!

Me, Tim and Julia

Tim, Me (with Julia), Mom (with Caroline), Jen, Christine, Colleen

The Tim Rohrers

The whole gang!

Caroline and Julia in their matching dresses and Sunfish socks