Friends.......more than a great TV show.

I don't know if I have mentioned here before but I am so lucky to have such great friends in my life! For instance, last Friday, 3 (possibly 4 depending on who you ask) of my girlfriends gave me a baby shower. It was just perfect. I love doing things for other people but when people do nice things for me, I don't know why but I feel so guilty. It is hard for me to express how grateful I am. This shower was amazing. Beautiful cake - cute decorations and GREAT food! The food had a Mexican theme in honor of our Baby Kate who will be 1/4 Hispanic. Ok, so it was partly for Kate - mostly I just love Mexican food! They had the cutest napkins ever - they were white with the letter K. I just loved them! Mmmmmmm and Sangria punch - that was so so good! They didn't stop there - the generosity of their gifts were overwhelming. And they didn't just spoil me and Kate - Brooke made out like a bandit! It was too funny - everything she opened - she kept saying - oh remember how I wanted that?? She loved every minute and so did I. It really made me feel much better about this baby coming. I feel prepared which honestly has helped me relax.........some.
I feel especially prepared in the blanket department. We were having a contest on who could guess how many blankets I received as gifts. The correct answer.....22! I am not sure how many people were there, I know 14 had RSVP''d which means most people brought 1 1/2 blankets each! Ok, enough about that - here are some pics of the festivities.

Oh BTW, I am still working on the thank you cards - don't give up on me yet!! But a special thanks goes out to Jennifer (who also designed the best invites ever and made me a CD of all the pics!), Kay (who neatly folded each and every piece of tissue paper and saved all the name badges for my scrapping and Jaci (who had a 6:15 am flight Friday followed by a panel interview in an airport in Memphis for a job she really really wanted - and got. Her flight got back in Wichita at 4:45 and the party was at 6pm AT HER HOUSE!) Yes, I do have the best friends!!!! I am so darn lucky!!

Here is a pic of me just before leaving for the shower. I think it is important to mention it was like 105 degrees with 1000% humidity!

some of the girls -

Here is a pic of Brooke with her new sunglasses:

Here is the cake -

Jay came and picked us all up so he got to sneak into a pic - yeah!!

Sorry there aren't any more updates. A friend put it pretty well today, I thought. She said, it hasn't even been a week since they called and checked in. That is not long enough to be worried! So that being said, she was dilated to a 2 about a week and a half ago. I think it is time to have that baby! We are ready! Although, in His wisdom, I am guessing God has a plan. Maybe He is waiting for it to get under 100 degrees so she can actually use some of these blankets! Just a thought.