Basketball, baptism and birthdays...

We had quite a busy weekend. We started off March with a bang by cramming as much stuff into Saturday as we could. Mark had to work a half day, Nina started off the day at the Girl Scout international fair. Not sure why it's called the international fair when each troop presented on a different state. Nina's troop had Minnesota this year. They sold flags and other trinkets related to the state. All the troops do this and each item they sale is about 25 cents to 75 cents. It's fun for the girls to do a little "shopping" and manage the money that they have to spend during the day. Plus they have to remember to save money for lunch which i hear some girls didn't.

From the fair we rushed over to Nina's final basketball game of the season. Unfortunately, they didn't win but played very hard. The season has had its ups and downs but i think the girls learned a lot and had lots of fun playing. Nina is already saying she wants to play again next year!!

Now rushing on to our next event which is our good friends Chris and Renee Gartelos's son's baptism. We rushed straight from the bball game to home so Nina could get showered and ready for the baptism. I think we impressed Mark since we left the game at 3PM and arrived at the baptism before 4PM. Thank goodness it's easy to get Nina ready.

Peter's baptism was very neat. He was baptised in the Greek church so the ceremony is a little different than catholic or even methodist churches. First they do an exorcism of the baby in the back of the church. This is suppose to cleanse him of any sins and prepare him for the baptism. Then they oil him up and dunk him in the baptism water 3 times. Poor little Peter didn't like that too much.

Following the baptism, we all went back to Chris and Renee's to celebrate the baptism as well as Peter's first birthday which is March 9th. Same as my dad's birthday. The party was lots of fun and we had a great time visiting with all our friends.

Finally mixed in this whole day was my birthday. We didn't really celebrate with everything going on so Mark and Nina and i went for ice cream and did presents on Friday night. We knew Saturday was going to be a full day and wouldn't have time to celebrate. Sunday we spent the day enjoying the 70 degree weather and did projects around the house. I also went for brunch to the Bristol with my old neighbor friends. Great food and great friends.

Now it's Monday and we're back to the yucky cold weather. Hopefully spring is just around the corner and this little girl will born to a nice warm spring!! Down to 3 1/2 weeks!!!