Fredericksburg-Wineries and A Baptism

This weekend we went to Fredericksburg to tour some local Texas wineries and celebrate the baptism of our niece, Rebecca.  We arrived on Friday night and on Saturday went to 3 different wineries, Spicewood, Flat Creek and William Chris.  We were very impressed with how good the local wines were.  Sunday was the baptism at Resurrection Lutheran Church, where Jeff's mom is a member and also where Carrie and Chris got married.  Rebecca did great and didn't cry at all during the ceremony!  I have the honor of being her Godmother, while Chris's brother, Jeff is the Godfather.  (Kinda crazy that Carrie and Chris both have brother's named Jeff!  And Chris's mom is named, Laurie! They were meant to be together!) Anyway, after the baptism we had a great lunch at the house.

Monday, we went to even more wineries. This time we went to Texas Hills, Pedernales Cellars, Woodrose, and Becker.  Whew! That's a lot of wine drinking!  We had a great time and found something we liked at each winery, but Becker was our favorite.  We pretty much liked EVERYTHING they had!  Now our wine fridge is fully stocked.

We came home today and will have just enough time to reset and repack because Thursday we leave to head out east to Louisiana.  We are spending the weekend in Covington for my mom's birthday celebration.  Should be fun!  I'll leave you with some of the highlights of the trip from this weekend.

Spicewood

Elway, the Spicewood dog

Texas Hills

Flat Creek

William Chris 

Charlie at Woodrose

Chris, Lauri, Rebecca, Carrie, Jeff, Pastor

From Rebecca's Baptism

Chris, Lauri, Rebecca, Carrie, Jeff, Pastor

From Rebecca's Baptism

Pictures from Destin

Ok. Here are just a few of the pictures from Destin.  I am still having problems uploading from iphoto to picasa, so this will have to do. 

View from our room

                                                        

                    

                                                

                                                             Kirstin

    

Update

So Charlie didn't win the contest. :( Boo! But that's ok. We still think he is super cute!

We went to Destin, Florida a couple of weeks ago on a family vacation. We had a great time and got to relax and get away from it all for a week. We took a ton of pictures and I'm still trying to figure out how to import them from iphoto to picasaweb. Bear with me. My picasaweb account is almost full, so I need to find somewhere else to post my pictures. This will take some time as I have a 10 month old that is very mobile and doesn't stay still! Speaking of Charlie (again), I believe he has had a growth spurt. He has been sleeping a ton (which I love!), taking 1.5 to 2 hour naps, twice a day. Sleeping 12-14 hours a night, only waking up once to eat. I hope this trend continues. The past two days he's slept until 9:15am! Awesome! He know weighs 20 pounds and is 29.5 inches long. SO he has grown 2 pounds and 2 inches in about a month and a half! If I have done my interpretation of the growth chart correctly, he is still in the 25% for weight but has jumped to the 75% for height! I have noticed he has gotten taller lately. He is crawling around like a madman, pulling up on everything and getting more steady standing while holding on with only one hand. We are practicing walking around the house, although he doesn't seem too interested in that all the time. We will keep working on that. So I guess that's it for now. I'll leave you with a picture...

Cutest Baby Contest

My friend is a photographer in Covington and is running a cutest baby contest on facebook. Of course I entered Charlie, since I think he IS the cutest baby! : ) The winner receives a free photo session and $100 of photos from the shoot. I want to win but I need your help! Those of you that have a facebook page, all you have to do is become a "fan" of Mindy Rathe Photography, find Charlie's picture and "like" it. Comments do not count, only "likes". The voting ends this weekend, but we are already way behind!

http://www.facebook.com/MindyRathePhotography