SURPRISE shower! :)

So I work with some awesome people! THIS we know...and I'm so thankful for...however, today they blew me away! Started off as a very ordinary morning filled with answering the phones and such and then I had a meeting with my boss about my impending maternity leave. Well anyways, the meeting was wrapping up and she asked me if I could make a pot of coffee for her in the large conference room, since she "didn't know how to work the thing". So...walked into the conference room and BOOM...there they were, about 20 ladies from the office and my mom. :) Took me a second to realize what was going on and then it was like "oooooh" lol...a little clueless these days. :) Anyways, it was decorated in a tea-party theme...with adorable cupcakes and cookies and delicious chicken salad sandwiches with pasta salad. mm! They even bought me some TED DREW'S...which as you well know by now, I have been LOVING these days! Everything was so well thought out and they pretty much covered the odds and ends of things we still needed to purchase --binks, burp clothes, a few more diapers, a photo album and a front carrier for the baby-daddy to use :) and they even threw in a GC to Babies r Us. What a blessing! Today was so much fun and I'm so thankful to have such caring people in my life!

Baby Powell

Today was our 33 week appt and ultrasound! Everything looked great.... Our baby girl weighed about 4 and 1/2 pounds and was deemed to be in the 55th percentile. She was also already in the right position for birth, which was a relief. The sweetest part: the tech mentioned that our baby had very full lips...so she gave us a profile shot and sure enough, she has her daddy's kissbale lips... :) Pics to come! :)

Other mentionables:
*We had a wonderful baby shower last month...filled with friends and family. Everything was beautiful, the food was delicious and we were so thankful to everyone for coming! Because of all the people who blessed us, we were left to buy very little. We just want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts and we love you!

*Her room is almost ready!! We'll be posting pics of the completed project soon...thanks to my sister Kimmy for finding us a perfect rocker at a garage sale last weekend!

*We just completed our birthing class last Sunday...overall it was a great experience and it made us all the more excited to meet our baby girl. :)

*God has, as always, been reminding us of His faithfulness..it's not easy preparing for a baby...mentally, financially, etc... but we're growing in our faith. We're thankful for His grace.

That's all for now....soon we'll have more pictures for you! Love you!