Today we celebrated Jackson making his 1st communion. It was a beautiful day spent with our family. For the past two years Jackson has been attending religious ed classes once a week on Mondays from 4:30-5:45. Mondays were a long day for Jackson. Todd would pick him up from school, eat a quick snack in the car and then drop off at church. 
Of course every now and then we heard a complaint that he didn't want to go because he was tired, but overall it has been a wonderful experience for Jackson. We decided to keep the crew small.
We only invites our parents, grandma and both of Jackson's Godmothers and their families. Erin and Will came from Chicago,while Jayson and Emerson stayed back. Will thought it was a pretty special weekend to be here all by himself. 
Jackson was very specific about what he wanted to wear. This is how he described it. " I want to look like a Michigan football player when they get off the bus for an away game." He was very specific about wearing khaki pants, a blue sport coat, yellow shirt and a blue and yellow tie. Crazy enough I could find all of that for him.
Jackson was pretty excited to get to church. He was sharing his day with two of his buddies, Kyler and Aidan. The boys looked pretty handsome all dressed up.The mass was nice and you could tell all the kids were concentrating hard on what they needed to do.
After the mass we headed back to our house for dinner. It was a nice evening of cousins playing and adults catching up.
We asked for no gifts, but of course no one ever listens to that:) Jackson received very meaningful gifts. I think he mostly loved his new books and his bible that he received. It was Todd's when he was a little guy. A great treasure for sure.
