Monday, March 10, 2008

blessings...of showers and friends

We are so blessed in many ways! God has given us a great family: four wonderful sons, and two wonderful daughters-in-law, and now we look forward to holding our first grandchild. A couple of weeks ago, our church family here at Calvary hosted a lovely baby shower for Jamie and Krista.
The decor was so cute! The girls had used their (Jamie and Krista's) nursery theme of "Baby Aviator." The center piece was this little bucket with the "clouds" for writing suggestions to the new parents on how to care for their baby. The cutest advice came from a little girl, "feed him lots of candy!" Even the water bottles on the table were special!
Baby Jayden received soooooo many nice gifts!
It was a lovely afternoon of many memories.
Jamie and Krista also received a childrens' Bible story book that he had grown up reading...
and Krista received the figurine of the new mother from her own mom. Now we are just waiting for the news of Jayden's birth!
Last week, we had another visit from Jim's "brother" Chuck. His job brings him frequently to our area and we always look forward to his short visits.
And, as often happens, the boys need to share with each other the latest silly video clip that they have discovered on the internet!
Last weekend, our church hosted the district conference. We were so excited that Jim's cousin Forrest and his wife Julie were able to attend. It was fun to catch up on their latest news from both family and church.
The speaker for the conference was Jon Lunde. These three adults (plus Forrest, who unfortunately had already left for home) had grown up in Africa together as MK's, so they had alot of remeniscing to do! Jon was a fantastic speaker, and we all enjoyed the time of fellowship that we had together as members from the different churches.
On Friday morning, we were surprised with a visit from some dear friends from North Dakota! They were in California on vacation, so decided to look us up and dropped by for a short visit. How exciting it has been for us to have our family and friends come to us, since we cannot always go to them! We are soooo blessed!

6 comments:

Leingang Family said...

What a great shower! Those are great ideas! You have had lots of fun lately!

Kari, RN said...

It looks like a great couple of days or weeks! Busy, but so fun! How wonderful that you've been able to have so many visitors stop by -your gift of hospitality draws people in!

Thanks for the good chat the other night. Talk with you again soon!

Jamie and Krista said...
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Jamie and Krista said...

It was a very nice shower! Thank you to everyone involved. We appreciate your kindness and generosity!

We can't wait to see pictures of Baby Jayden on the blogs...soon! =)

Brooke said...

I'm anxious to hear when he arrives! What a fun shower!

CJ Olson said...

That shower looked awesome!! I'm sure that it will be exciting in the next couple of months for you guys!! I can't wait to hear the news that Baby Jayden has arrived!!