Saturday, October 23, 2010

God Bless McKenna Jo

Last Saturday, October 14th, we were very blessed. It was McKenna's Baptismal Day and we were fortunate to have friends & family come from near and far to help us celebrate.

Brian & I had decided to wait to have McKenna baptised until we were moved into our new house. We wanted to be able to have the party and show off our house!

Some of our family from Ohio came in on Friday night, so our weekend of fun began as we headed over to my mom & dad's.

Two Hip Grannies!
Aunt Jan has McKenna & Mom has Sophia
Sophia is my cousin, Julie's 3 month old

Nick Milazzo, Sarah, Brian, Nick DeFisher, Amanda &
Maddie eating and hanging out in the kitchen

Grandma Beauty came in from Cleveland!

Kenna playing with Hallie

Sweet Sophie with her Mommy

cousin's all grown up! Julie & I and our girls

Giddy-Up Horsey!
Kenna & Rocco enjoying their horse ride from Nick

McKenna's Baptism was at the 5pm church service at Bethany Lutheran Church in Naperville .(the church Brian & I were married!) So we decided to fill the day with celebration. The party at our house began at 1pm and then continued after the service...it sure was a fun-filled blessed day!!!

some views of the pre-par-tay

one of our delicious lunch treats...a 6ft. italian sub from Caputo's

the special girl on her special day

Mikey, Uncle Rick, & Nick watching football

Kenna, Aunt Krissy, GranMom

Rocco sharing his cars with McKenna

Mom with one of her best friends, Jody Girl!

Kenna loves Danny!

GodFather Brady got McKenna this special pre-party shirt!
"The GodDaughter"

McKenna loves her Godparents!

McKenna was so excited to see GG! It really meant a lot to us
that Grandma Beauty made the trip from Ohio!

Aunt Lizzie, Great Grandpa Milazzo, Soph & Auntie Lynn

there just aren't any words...

With everyone ready to go...we headed over to Bethany for the service.

some views of the service...

Pastor Rossow's blessing

fulfilling one of his GodFather duties...loving our girl!

McKenna loves water! She wanted to jump right in!

best friends forever

McKenna Jo and her Great Grandparents!

GranMom, GP & their #1

Kenna with Grandma & Grandpa Witkowski
(Kenna couldn't keep her eyes off of Grandpa's tie...I didn't get a single picture of her looking!)

After the service, we all headed back to our house for the post-party!

comfy girl in her jammies giggling with GP

We love you Tokarz Family!!!

Anne & Greg...and Brad

Uncle Kevin & Kristen

Barb with her good friends, Boz & Chris

brother & sister!

end of the night - Milazzo family pic!

What a most wonderful weekend we had! Thank you very much to all of our friends & family who were able to make it to celebrate our little girl's day. We can't even begin to tell you how much it meant to us, it was extra special having each and every one of you there. Thank you! We love you!

5 comments:

tamilazzo said...

McKenna Jo is so blessed to have such a wonderful caring family. It was a beautiful day and we can't thank our family for helping to celebrate this blessed event.

T said...

looks like a great time... rocco is absolutely adorable!!!!

mackenzie said...

I am so blessed to have an amazing goddaughter! (And godson rocco!) She didn't such a wonderful job! And she looked sooo beautiful! I love u so much kenna jo! Can't wait to give u squishy tomorrow!

mackenzie said...

I ment she did...wow I'm stupid!

The Witkowski Family said...

oh Aunt Puggie, you're not stupid! you just type too fast!
see you tomorrow!
love you,
Kenna :)