Shower for My Preggo Buddy:

a couple weekends ago i was thrilled to host a shower for trish - my big belly buddy! it was a lot of fun to see all our friends from our old church and, of course, eat some yummy food. trish has just over two weeks to go, so little critterbug could show up any time now! trish -- i'm keeping my phone with me, so you'd better give me a call when critter says it's time to come out :)
tilly made a new friend while the ladies were over....

a couple days later, jeannie and steve sent me the most beautiful flowers to congratulate me on completing my thesis defense. thanks! they were gorgeous!! i just have a couple minor formatting changes to make and i'll turn the final paper in on monday. praise the Lord, i will finally be completely done! some other good news i received was that my abstract i submitted for an orthopaedics research conference in hawaii was accepted. unfortunately, i won't be able to go because it's in early october...but i'd be much happier to stay home with peanut any day!