Baby Shower....yay!

First, I would like to apologize to all of you that follow up with our progress on the blog for not posting our pregnancy progress of week 35. So much has been going on, I just got overwhelmed by school, work, and just being pregnant :( 

So we had our Baby Shower this past weekend. Jonathan's mother, together with family threw it for us and it was great! We were surrounded by family and friends. We played games, ate great food and we were graciously blessed with many presents for Baby Joshua. We feel so blessed to have so many people that love us and we know baby Joshua does feel blessed to be loved by so many already!!!! Thanks again to mom Debbie for hosting the shower and everyone who came and shared in baby Joshua's first shower!! We feel loved and blessed to have such wonderful people in our lives! I will post pictures from the shower at a later date.......

So here we are today less than one month before the arrival of baby Joshua. Today marks exactly 27 days before the arrival of our bundle of joy. I am both anxious and nervous about the days getting closer. Mostly I am happy that I will be relieved of all these discomforts that I am currently experiencing...

Of late I have been thinking more and more about labor.... just listening to people that are more than willing to share both their horror and wonderful stories about labor can be scary and comforting respectively. For me, I am decided on using an epidural. I do not think this will be a time to proof my heroics on withstanding pain. I know my pain tolerance is next to zero.

The other night I was sitting and thinking, I just couldn't put my mind around how truly miraculous being pregnant is. I kept thinking about how no matter what, your body knows how to grow this child, how in 9 months, the baby will come, whether you are ready or not and most amazingly that it takes 1 egg and 1 sperm of miniscule size, to create a human being. If this doesn't make you realize how amazing God is, I don't know what will.

Well, anyways, I'm getting larger by the day, and it's getting harder to get comfortable especially when rolling over in bed.... or sitting on the couch to watch TV. Here is this week's picture. 36 weeks and counting............... I just realized I had a picture taken during by niece Jill's birthday at about week 15 or 16. I thought it would be fun to compare it with this week's picture.

So here I am at about week 15 or 16.

And here I am at week 36.

Thank you for reading and see you all next week!