We focus mainly on weddings here, but have done the occasional baby dedication/ christening, so I was excited to get to document her day. Held in the gorgeous Silsbee First United Methodist Church, the day was perfect!

Pastor Dan walked over to shake everyone’s hand, big brother wanted his turn:

Going… going…

Gone…

Soon everyone lined up front for scripture reading and prayer.

The newly christened Ann Margaret gets to show off now with Pastor Dan:

Yay!

After the service, a family reception was held in Ann Margaret’s home. Beautifully catered by Katherine and Company, with music provided by the best in the area, Kay Miller… the room was filled with love.

She’s arrived!

Hello!

She loved her doll!

There’s really nothing like a handful of hair to get the party started!

After all the fuss being made over her, she needed a little beauty rest.

Below are a few more favorites, congratulations Ann Margaret and God Bless!

Umm… a baby dedication!

This past year I made the decision to focus totally on wedding and wedding-related (engagements, bridals and trash-the-dress) events, really wanting to master what many consider a “niche” area in photography… that is until Scarlett brought little Waylan by and requested my documenting his dedication.

How can you pass up his cute chubby cheeks?

It was a beautiful day for a baby dedication! Calder Baptist Church in Beaumont is a gorgeous church here in the Oaks Historic District.

We began early with some family portraits, including a few of Scarlett with Waylan and beautiful natural light streaming through the windows. From there the church service began – Pastor Fuller brought the family up front, gave Waylan the grand tour (introducing him to all the families who will have a profound effect on his life), blessed the baby and prayed with the family. We can all use reminding of how much responsibility we have with our precious little ones.

Even big brother got to take part and pray for Waylan. It was a beautiful service.

From there we made our way over to the Beaumont Country Club where a reception awaited Waylan and all his fans on the porch. He dozed off and on but appeared to have a great time!

Perfect cake, I love the booties on top.

It was a beautiful day for a baby dedication! Good luck to Waylan’s family and church family and God Bless Waylan.

David turned 3 a few weeks ago, he’s growing into a fine young man, tho he is sure is 4th birthday is “coming up” soon. He is into “Little Einsteins”, probably too much, maybe only surpassed by his craze for “choo choo trains”. Local bakeries do not make Little Einstein cakes anymore, so we improvised a bit and David had a blast.

While things were being set up, David played a little football with his cousins. He’s got the basic idea down, tho he tends to tackle you even when he has the ball:





Elise enjoys watching anything her brother is doing:





Her eyes are getting bluer each week.

Cake!





One of the characters in Little Einsteins plays the trumpet, among other instruments, and David loved getting his – here his friend Aiden is in the line of fire:





He’s played that trumpet for all it’s worth, until he broke it last week. A replacement is coming for Christmas (shhh! don’t tell).

A few swings on his pinata and his party was over way too soon…





Happy birthday David, we love you!

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Thousands of children, parents and volunteers were in attendance in what eventually became standing-room only, eating thousands of pizzas, corn dogs (mmmm ) and ice cream:





I was there to photograph Pastor Craig Larson of Power Castle Ministries and his team perform their puppet shows and human videos, something he and his family have been doing full-time for years here in some of Beaumont’s less fortunate neighborhoods. It was a blast!














Months and months of work goes into the planning and pulling off of such an event, but to see the joy in the eyes of the little ones as they peddle out with their new bicycle and toys for Christmas makes it all worthwhile








Jesus, the reason for the season.