New York Baby Shower

One baby shower down, good times!  We had a great time having some family and friends over to celebrate the coming of a new life here soon.  It was really neat because they spent some time in prayer praying for us as we prepare for the baby and prayers for after the baby is born.  We are so blessed.

The Klembcyzk family 

A peak a the rest of who was there

They started it all off with a game to have everyone guess the gender and birthday, and then they picked out a boy and girl name for us.  The names don't matter as much because we already have the names picked whether it's a girl or boy but it was fun to hear all the predictions, but some examples of some are Arriana, Abigail, Collin and William.  The party consensus is that we are going to have a boy (9 people said boy, 4 said girl) and the birthdays range from February 3rd to February 28th.  Personally I am hoping for one of the earlier dates, but we will just have to wait and see what baby decides.

Then we opened up all of our gifts.  We got lots of goodies and it was fun because Diane also had everyone bring a favorite children's book so our collection is beginning to fill up.  One really sweet thing was the Klembcyzk family (Ben's "big brother's" family) chose books out of their own personally library to share with us. They had each of the kids pick one book that was their favorite and they wanted to pass along to our little one.  So those books will have lots of sentimental meaning to us. :-)

 Ben's friend Tim from high school gave us a cute book that basically

 "teaches kids to write on walls" as he said it. Ben got a kick out of that.

Opening a special something sent all the way from MI, via GA and SC

for us from my mom. :-) Some of it gave Ben quite the embarrassed chuckle. 

 Picture of some of the spread of gifts

A few more

Next I worked on trying to put on some weight by eating a massive piece of cake.  MMMMMM, I love me some cake!  We shall see how it works on the weight gain though. :-)

The cake was delicious!

And of course no baby shower would be complete without some XBOX 360 Kinect for 

the boys to indulge in...it made all the baby stuff worth sitting through I think. :-)