Showers of Blessing

Charlie and I belong to a church with people who are very generous. This past Saturday the women of our Sunday School class hosted a baby shower for us. As with our wedding shower, the generosity was overwhelming.

It was such a special and some would say emotional day. I was blessed not only to have my Mom and Sister attend, but also to have my Mother-in-Law and Sister's-in-Law in town while Charlie, his Dad and Uncle and Tim Schmidjell attended Promise Keepers.









The floodgate of tears opened very early into the shower when I heard my mom ask about the handmade cradle made by my Father-in-Law and friend Don Rugg.










This shower had it all! There were games, cake both edible and diaper form,








food representing all the food groups (yum, yum)


and the 2006 "Pregnant Posse" in delivery date order starting right to left: Marsha and I due in Aug., Shandi due in Sept., Michelle due in Nov. and Patty due in Dec.






After all the festivities, it was time to relax and put my feet up.


THANK YOU ALL WHO PLANNED AND PARTICIPATED IN THIS VERY SPECIAL DAY!

We're getting closer

For those of you counting with me...as of Thurs., July 13th we'll have only 6 weeks left until we get to see this little miracle face to face.

I am so thankful because I feel I've been blessed with a relatively easy pregnancy. Other than these beautiful swollen feet, I really haven't had a lot of problems.

(Randa was playing with this picture in Photoshop)


Here's a different view of Baby Groff.