Aaron's God Parents Confirmed!!!

Last night Brett and I had dinner with friends, Mike and Sarah Merrill. Mike and Sarah THOUGHT the dinner was just a thank you from them to us for dog sitting their puppy, Emma; but we had another agenda. After the past couple months of deliberating, we had decided to ask Mike and Sarah to be Baby Aaron's God parents.

We had made our decision based on a lot of things. First and foremost the fact that Mike and Sarah have both been really good friends to us ever since Brett and I got married and became closer with them. They helped us assemble our wedding invitations, attended Peter's church dedication, and have help out with Peter every time they are around him.

Our main decision, though had to do with us knowing that they have a strong marriage, they have a lot of the same beliefs (and maybe questions) about God as we do, and that they will take their role in our child's life seriously.

When we did ask the Merrills at the end of dinner last night we knew we had made the right choice by their reaction. They both looked shocked and humbled, and we thought they might cry or something. When we told them that they could tell us later if they wanted to talk about it and think it over they instantly said, "We will do it!"

Later last night Mike IMed us asking that we call him "Don Merrill" - which is apparently a God Father thing, I guess I will have to catch up on the movies to figure out what that means though.

And hey, if nothing else I am sure that the Merrill's will be very influential in teaching Aaron how to rock out ;)