My Church Shower!

We LOVE our church, and all of our friends from there! Several other friends and family members also came to celebrate Baby Long, and it was a beautiful shower! This shower was more than 3 weeks ago, but our birth mom went into labor during the shower, so things have been a bit busy since then. I intended to do a post that night, but I was waiting for our daughter to be born! :)

Here are my sweet friends and hostesses. They completely outdid themselves at this AMAZING party! Sunny, Alicia, Bethany, me, Mindy, Tracy, Candy, and (front row) Kimi, Lindsay, Amber, Beth, and Terri

Isn't the table gorgeous?? The cake was a Nothing Bundt cake, and it was heavenly! They know how much I love sweets, so there was this entire table of sweets and more food in the other room. YUM! I love the pacifiers hanging from the chandilier. If this tells you anything about how crazy it was when we were frantically packing for the hospital, when we got to Wichita Falls, I opened our bags and there were these pacifiers with the pink ribbons still attached!!

We had to plan a shower in a hurry! My parents were already coming in town for my niece's birthday that weekend, so it worked out great. I was so glad that my mom could be there!

My friend Bethany had her shower the day before! Check out the flowers in the background. WOW!


So many great friends were there! Here's Nicole, Shari, and Tracy.

The girls were so creative when they came up with the games. This one was the "How Well Do You Know Corrie?" game. Everyone answered questions like "Where exactly did Mark and Corrie meet?" and "What's Corrie's favorite summertime treat?" Some people did so well, they even had to do tie breakers!

I was a bit worried when they blindfolded me, but this game was a fun one too! They placed all kinds of baby objects in my hands, and I had to guess what each one was. This one was the hardest.

Farrah and Jan got us this "My daddy is a hottie!" onesie. Adorable! Guess what one of Mark's favorite gifts was?? :)

These are the tiniest pink shoes I've ever seen! My nieces were very helpful in passing me the gifts. :)

So many of the girls at the shower have been through these years of waiting and have prayed and cried with us through it all. I am so thankful for all of you! At the end of the shower, they prayed for us again, and this time it was a prayer filled with joy and thankfulness!

I am so thankful to all of you sweet friends! Mark and I are so blessed. About those thank you notes...I promise they are coming! It's hard to write with a sweet baby in your arms. :)