Blessings

Boy, oh boy have we been showered with many blessings these last few months. With having our first baby due just six weeks from today-Yay!!-we have been humbled beyond what we could have even imagined with love, support, and gifts from family and friends.

Gary's co-workers threw him a surprise baby shower at the end of the school year. My college girlfriends threw a shower for me in early June. And to top it all off my sister (with the help of my mom and a few friends) threw an amazing shower in the middle of June for our little guy.

Let's just say we were soaked in showers. Which to us was the same as being soaked in blessings/being so humbled. It's a situation that we have had to take a step back and just thank God for all the wonderful people that he has placed in our lives. It's been such a journey so far just with the pregnancy alone, trying to prepare ourselves to be parents, and get ready for a baby-if that's even totally possible...

Overwhelming, excited, anxious, tired:), and a little scared at times are just a few of the ways to describe the last 8 1/2 months. Oh, add uncomfortable to that list, but that and pregnancy itself is a whole different story. Back to blessings. Here is a nice suprise I got from my friend I've known since middle school. BFF is the correct term, but I always like to throw in how long we've known eachother since that seems to be more and more rare to still have friends that long.

Aren't they gorgeous?? It came with a card saying 'Something to make you smile before Caden's arrival! Love you, BFF'. Cue the tears at this point, but all good tears. And thankfully the flower lady didn't give her the chance to write on the card herself or who knows how out of control that would have gotten:)(I will add a small side note that my family is in Thailand visiting my brother right now too which is so bittersweet and makes me emotional all in itself)

She's the best though. And to say that having her as a BFF is a blessing is an understatement. Through the good and the bad, any ups and downs we've had in life or even with eachother we've stayed so close and I thank God for that. Definitely good to have a solid, honest person in your life like her.

Enjoy the cute picture of me and Katie (aka BFF) from the baby shower :)

We have so many wonderful people in our life. I always have to remind myself while I'm sending up prayers on my drive to work to thank God for all his blessings. Gary and I are so thankful to be able to share this crazy journey of life with them all!