O Brother Where Art Thou?

Today we went to a Southern Baptist group baptism

with some friends of ours. We went to support our

friends Jeff and Lorraine and their son Jesse but

Jeremy and I were also interested in the the

experience and boy was it! It was so different

from anything we have been to before and certain

parts were definitely from the movie "O Brother

Where Art Thou?" We met at a creek, which was

really pretty. There was singing and praying but the

most interesting (we had to try not to laugh parts

because we are not used to it) was when the preacher

started preaching, he was really into it (which we knew

he would be) his face was red, he was jumping, sweating,

and very loud with an intermittent barking sound.

He walked around while preaching and shook some

people's hands, one of which was Jeremy's. We were

standing with Lorraine, and her mother in-law Johnnie.

I could tell that Kailyn was a little nervous as the preacher

walked closer to us. Jeremy and I were standing in front

of the stroller in order to make her feel less afraid, but

after the preacher walked by Kailyn slowly got out of the

stroller and walked behind Jeremy and asked if he would

hold her. He picked her up and the preacher came back

by and Kailyn said with a nervous look on her face,"I want

to go to another church." We all just busted up laughing,

which was okay because the preacher was so loud that no

one else could hear us. It was classic. Kids do say the

darnedest things and how cute they are! It was an

interesting experience and fun to see how the Baptists

do their thing. But Kailyn's words and timing will always make us laugh.

Jeremy, Kailyn, Raegan, Jeff

Waiting for the Baptism to start.

Beautiful Raegan

Jesse, the man of the hour

(how sad that this is the best picture I got of him)

Cute Brayden

Tiffany, Lorraine, Johnnetta (Johnnie) and little Maddison