From Office to Baby Room with help from Virginia

Do you ever have a project that just sits around the house? No matter how much you stare at them the dishes just don't do themselves. No matter how much research you do...you still have to write the paper. Our original thoughts were to leave our second bedroom as a 1/2 office and 1/2 baby room. But no matter how much we stared at the space or the crib--things just weren't getting done. That is until Kathy, Bird's sister came up from Virginia. I think her exact words were, "We are getting this done in 24 hours--come on get the keys Gregg we are going to Baby's R Us."

Sometimes it just takes one little piece for the whole puzzle to make since. From the time we got back from Spain until 3 weeks ago we knew we had so much to do but just couldn't do it. Kathy is our baby's aunt and our baby's interior designer. So after the 24 hour mad marathon the room looked great and Bird and her went to the Spa for some pampering.

Kathy was simply amazing! Bird was so encouraged to have some family close by during the pregnancy. For me it was great to watch the sister dynamic going on all weekend. It was like they were teenagers again! Tons of joy! Kathy thanks so much for all your love and support and just for being you. We love you and can't thank you enough!

A Harbor Baby Shower

This December will mark our 3rd year on staff with Harbor of Hope Christian Church. My job has adapted and morphed from more to less to more over those three years but through it all one thing has remained a constant...the churches unfailing love for Bird and I. We feel so undeserving of the joy and excitement that is thrown our way week after week. On Sunday November 4th in the cafe of the church several people came out to support us and to bless us with baby gifts. We can't thank YOU and Harbor enough. This is a picture at the very end of the shower of Linda Bortmess (also the gal who gave Bird tons of maternity clothes so that she didn't have to be at her own shower in her birthday suite) praying for Bird that she would loose her anxiety unto the Lord and that He would carry us through the next four weeks. There really is not one thing we need. Between our wonderful family, church and friends Baby Jennings is going to be very welcomed.
We played wicked fun games and got a rat as a gift. The couple who pulled it all off were our small group leaders, Priscila and Nathan Keliher. Leave it up to Mrs. Flint to remind us that some point our baby is going to get so bored of all the new toys and so we need to be flexible and have the baby play with what is around the house...aka...our new toy RAT. Hilarious.