Baby Shower and baby names!

Well I couldn't find very many pictures from my baby shower that I liked a lot so I decided to go with the two best ones. My baby shower was so much fun and there was some really good food that Susan and her sister Jane made. Yum! I am so glad that so many friends and family members came. It felt so good to be around people I love and celebrating a momentous, soon to be occasion that will be happening in my family...the birth of my son! My goodness that sounds so weird, my son! Anyways, I got some very neat and thoughtful gifts, including some very creative ones. For example, this picture on the left is a bib, but not any ordinary bib, it was made out of a hand towel and the whole for the neck can stretch to fit over the baby's head. Maybe I just haven't been to enough baby showers, or maybe I just don't know enough people who are skilled and creative, but I thought that was a pretty sweet little bib. Who knows though, maybe it is entirely impractical? I guess I will have to see, and I will let you all know. Ha, isn't that conceited of me to think that people might actually care about whether that bib worked or not? Oh well. The picture below was taken with a good friend of mine, Jamie. She and I met freshmen year and ended up in the same major, going on missions at the same time etc. She is great and I love her! As for other attendees, I must admit that I loved
seeing my cousin Heather, some family friends, and my mom! She stuck around after graduation just to be able to attend. I owe her so much! She and my dad helped a ton while they were in town, not only providing some very delicious food, but also helping me hang pictures, go shopping, and think about the baby. Truthfully, and I know this may sound harsh, but I have been so busy finishing school and student teaching that being pregnant was just something about me. It has not been all consuming and I definitely have not spent oodles of time prepping for the little guy. Thank goodness some people can bring me back to reality by asking, where is he going to sleep? Do you have a car seat (thanks to my sister, she has also been a complete life saver!)? You know, things you would expect an eight month pregnant woman to already have or have thought about. Not the case with me, sorry if I am a disappointment to all you moms! Oh, and going along on this baby topic, Kory and I have yet to decide on a name. Probably because some months back we made a list and then crossed off the ones we didn't like as much etc, you know the drill. Well, I lost the list. These past few weeks I have been searching everywhere for it because the name question comes up a lot these days. So last night, I gave up my search and decided to just go through every boy name I could find on the internet and make another list. Last night was irritating for that reason because I knew that my list was already a short one, but it was MIA. So, I looked at my new list this morning with joy and dread because let's be honest, I had to re-eliminate names. Here comes the irony....Kory calls me when he gets to school to tell me he found the original list. Yes, he found the original. The day after I had just gone through hundreds of names, he found the list, in his math book of all places!!!!! Talk about ironic. So we have the list, but since this morning, have not eliminated any more, but we are getting closer, rest assured of that!