Thanksgiving and Church Baby Shower!!

Some children's ministry volunteers and friends and staff had a baby shower for Hope on Sunday, Nov. 24th.  When they set the date I was grateful it was so close to Thanksgiving because that made it possible for Mom to be here for the shower as well as Thanksgiving! So Mom and Gary came on the Saturday before that and we all went to church the next day and stayed after for the shower. Like I said, it was a small shower with just some volunteers and staff mainly.  It was nice though and I was glad Mom was able to be a part of it as well!

Here is a friend of mine, Alina and me comparing baby bumps... :) It has been so great sharing pregnancy with her.  She found out she was pregnant after trying for 8 YEARS!  Love this lady!

Then the week following the baby shower was crazy!  I ended up getting sick during the night on Monday night. I was real nauseated and Tuesday I had flu like symptoms.. could not move, no energy, fever, nauseated, and vomited.  Adam ended up taking me to the express care clinic per MD OB recommendation since my fever went up to 100.5.  At the doctor that night, I was out of it too because I felt SO bad and had taken a phenergan for the nausea.  They gave me another nausea med that I could tolerate better and an antibiotic and by the next day I was already feeling better. Just dragging some.  

Thursday, I was able to help Mom cook and we had our Thanksgiving dinner but by that night and over the next few days, I also discovered really bad acid reflux.  So I was off and on really sick with this as well. I started taking Prevacid for this and in a couple of days this was helping a ton as well.  Despite all of this, I managed to do some Black Friday shopping with Mom on Thursday night :) and Friday I did work.   Of course, Mom and I LOVE to shop together and it was a successful shopping trip!

Here are a couple more random pics... the first with Grace in her school spirit attire.. :) and some others in some Christmas outfits that Adam's cousin Joanne sent Grace.