A Baby Shower for Eli

For all of you who are worried that we won't take as many pictures of Eli as we have of Isaac, here are some pics of the baby shower that our church gave us.
(We're really trying!)

Grandma and Grammie were both able to be in town for this shower (it's a long story), and it was great to have them here!

(Eli's) Mom and Grammie

Mom, Grammie and Eli

Opening presents (this pic shows off the ring that Garin got me for having such a tough couple of weeks!)

When will Eli get here? Who knows!!

Baby booties cake

These past few weeks have been pretty miserable - I (Rachel) have been in the hospital twice with kidney stones, not to mention being 8.5 months pregnant and exhausted all the time. HOWEVER, we have amazing friends and family who have jumped in to help. Garin's parents were here over the weekend (on 2 hours notice), and my mom came for the week. The following are pictures from Isaac's impromptu sleepover with some friends from church last Thursday evening - he had a GREAT time and didn't seem to miss Mom and Dad at all!

Matt and Isaac (Matt is 3yrs old)

The kids had a "flashlight scavenger hunt."

Isaac, "Papa Al", and Matt

Singing "Pharoah, Pharoah" sent both Isaac and Al into fits!

Isaac and Papa Al

Matthew, Jacob, and Isaac - like brothers from another mother!

Thanks for taking such good care of our boy!!!

Photo shoot...

A friend from church took some pictures of us (204 pictures, to be exact!) on the campus of Gardner-Webb University, which is nearby. Here are a just a few of those:

While on the topic of sugar...

...the boy LOVES it (sugar, in all its forms!), and this is the aftermath of Dad's birthday cake last week!