Our first baby shower

We had our first baby shower this past Saturday evening. This wasn’t your typical women-sitting-around-munching-hors-de-ouvres kinda shower, either. It was a small co-ed gathering of our Sunday School class from church at one of their homes. We had grilled shish-kabobs, loaded baked potatoes, homemade cake, and lots of other wonderful things to make my bathroom scale wonder what the heck it ever did to make me punish it so. We mostly just sat around and talked and laughed. Oh, and tried to convince Jarrod that attacking the “cheaters” wouldn’t really solve anything… Apparently a competitive spirit is pretty consistent, whether we’re talking basketball or estimating the girth of a pregnant woman’s belly.

We had so much fun, and we got a few nice baby items, too. :-) First on Jake’s list: Noah’s first soccer ball. Yes, of course, I understand that this isn’t technically a baby item. But I dare you to try convincing Jake of that…

Can I just say, I hope to goodness this kid likes soccer, because I don’t know what I’m going to do with my husband if Noah turns out to be a football player, or a basketball player, or *gasp* not really into sports at all?

Of course we got some other really nice, helpful, adorable, and useful baby things too. I’m going to spare you the full list, but I did want to share at least one more of the gifts. Now, please understand that we are SUPER thankful for ALL the gifts that people have given us. There’s no way we could even begin to get all the things we need on our own. We have been SO blessed with wonderful, generous friends and family, and we love and appreciate you all so much! So just because I didn’t post a picture of all the gifts on here doesn’t mean we don’t love them…I just had to narrow it down for this blog post. And I just seem to have a thing for shoes…

Aren’t they ADORABLE!?!?! I can’t wait to see our handsome (because he WILL be handsome, mind you) little boy in these! Just so you get a better perspective on their tiny little size, here’s one of Noah’s shoes up next to one of Jake’s shoes…

Agh! I can barely contain myself. You know seeing little shoes like that just makes you smile and go “Awwww…” Don’t even lie.