Baby Shower Pictures

As you can see from the fireplace view in our Embers Room at church, my friends did an amazing job decorating. What a neat idea with the clothes line- if you look closely, the diapers in the middle spell his name- ELI!

There were toys in primary colors all over the room with balloons, gifts and food in abundance. Delicious soups, great salad with all the toppings and accoutrements, cheese and crackers, bubble bath punch, complete with rubber duckies. Each table had a theme with toys as the centerpiece. It was all so lovingly laid out and blessed us greatly



Tim even stayed and did the masculine job of running all the AV equipment so everyone could watch our meeting with Eli, larger than life on the wall. Isn't modern technology amazing?


We had so many pictures- video of us as well as pictures of our son and a ton of pics from Krasnoyarsk.

Thank you so much to everyone who had a part in making this day so incredibly special for us!


It is so amazing to me. Having a shower really makes it real, doesn't it? I am actually going to be a mama soon. Tim will be a papa. A beautiful perfect little creation that God is placing in our care will be looking up at us soon, and, with big trusting eyes, say "mama" and "papa," and he will be calling us that. It is so hard to grasp after all this time that there really is a light at the end of the tunnel.



I laid out all the gifts and toys and books and clothes and pictures we received Sunday so Tim and I can play with them for a little while before Eli comes home. We decided to pack away several toys- that way he is not overwhelmed- and he'll get a chance to play with each toy to it's fullest, as we pull out a few toys at a time and have a blast playing together.

My thought on this is so deep. This love I feel grows more each day. Having these expressions of love from our friends and family, both here in Ohio and in PA makes me think more about our son and what parenthood is going to mean, which makes my love grow so much deeper. If I feel this deep and overwhelming amount of love for this little boy of ours, how much love does God the Father have for me- who created and knows my inmost being. No wonder Mary pondered these things in her heart. They are unfathomable to think about- this amazing love God has for us. Thank you, God!!