Our Baby's First Baby Shower

On June 9th our baby boy had his first baby shower! It was a very special time full of re-connecting with family friends and I felt very blessed by the occasion. About 40 women were at my sister's house to share in the festivities. We had a delicious brunch with yummy treats including tiropites (Greek cheese pies), Chicken Melonball Pasta Salad, chocolate-covered strawberries and Baklava.

After eating and visiting, we opened gifts. People were so generous in their gift-giving that it took a full hour to open everything! Even friends and family who weren't able to come sent gifts for me to open, which was so thoughtful. We received the rest of our nursery set (which is a Safari Animal theme) and many, many other useful items. Our little one has some VERY adorable things to wear and he'll be looking very cute in them, I'm sure. :-)

Another special part of the weekend was that my friend Catherine (whom I met in Geneva, but now lives in Kansas with her husband) flew in for the weekend to participate in the shower. It was so lovely to see her and we had a wonderful time visiting together and catching up on the big news in our lives.

I leave Colorado tomorrow to fly back to Geneva. The next few weeks and weekends will be filled with the final preparations for the baby. Olli plans to paint the nursery and then we'll build our baby's furniture and I'll finally get to put out all of our Safari-animal-themed stuff! I plan to send pictures when the nursery is finished.

Olli and I will begin taking pre-natal classes on July 5th and will continue every Thursday night until August 2nd so that will be helpful as well.

I tried scanning our latest ultrasound photos, but my parent's computer doesn't have the proper software installed for that so I'll have to do that at Olli's work when I get back to Geneva. I'll upload some pictures of the baby shower then too.