Showered with Blessings!

This past Thursday was the church's baby shower combined with some Shubin and Hayes family members. It was held at Doug and Amy's house and was featured a sit down fondue dinner. (So yummy!) What a turn out too! It looked as though approximately 70 ladies showed up. It was amazing to see so many people come together to shower our little girl with blessings!

Many people worked hard and made this event so special and I am truly grateful for their sacrifice and generosity to make this the best baby shower I have been to. :)

I especially want to thank Amy, Masha, Mom, Grace and Brenda Kolbe for spending so many hours preparing for this.

The banquet set up.

Close up of the tables.

Baboonya, Masha, Me, Rachel and Mom (Wow, we don't look related at all do we?)

This was a poster of pictures from mine and David's childhoods. It was for the shower game. You had to look at the pictures and get a list of questions to answer based on the pictures. I thought was clever. Though the picture of me sticking my tongue out with my hands in my mouth is not one I am neccessarily proud of...(anymore). :)

Dinner time!

Mmmm, yummy! Fondue is one of my favorite foods!

Rose didn't really appreciate being photographed while eating...

View of the present table.

Other side. Here you can see our designated spots. The signs read "Grammy," "Mommy," "Boonya" and "Baboonya."


Everyone gathered to listen to the devotional and watch the presents open. It was starting to get dark, so we had a bit of a time crunch.

Amy reading the devotional to me. It was one of the sweetest things ever given to me and I'll treasure it. Doug posted a transcript of it on his blog and you can view that here.

Opening the gifts. Again, it was getting dark and I had so many to open I tried very hard to get through them quickly. It still took me about an hour to open them all.


David admiring the gifts we got. We went through them all over again which was good since I didn't see everything that clearly the first time around.

David had really wanted a co-ed shower and jokingly pondered dressing as a women to indulge in the fondue and open gifts himself. I can't blame him for wanting to come, it was obviously quite the epic shower. :)