Shower # 2

Yesterday I was given the wonderful blessing of another shower thrown by my "church lady" friends Nicki, Julie and Terri. It was such a blessed event and one I am so very thankful for. I had relatives and church friends from many years past there to help me celebrate this new life that is still growing big and strong inside of me! They had so many special things planned...

My mom shared a letter that she had written for me, Julie read a letter that my dad wrote to me and finally Terri read a sweet letter that John wrote to our baby! It was a wonderful surprise and was so touching for me hear. Each letter was so thoughtful and beautiful! I will hold on to them always.

We played a couple of fun games such as "Guess Which Melted Candy Bar is in the Diaper" - which was fun and gross at the same time - the melted chocolate made them look like "dirty diapers". One gal was brave enough to taste it in her effort to guess what kind of candy bar it was! Another fun game was they had a list of meanings that you had to guess the name for such as "a tool" which would be Jack or "a tall evergreen" which would be Douglas (as in Douglas Fir). It was entertaining for sure, especially when my sweet sister Jessica put down Tahiti for "a type of beach" instead of Sandy. :) We all got a big laugh out of that!

Once again, we were thoroughly blessed with some wonderful gifts and we couldn't be more thankful for people's generosity with us. Our little one, and future little ones (Lord willing), will be blessed for many years to come! We are well prepared for this baby's arrival...

So, the countdown is on (5.5 weeks to go!). Our goal is to have the nursery finished by this weekend - we have a lot of little things to do, but it's looking good!