Showered over and over...

(Most of) the ladies from my 3rd grade team hosted a school baby shower this week.

Tracy and Lindsay my student teacher.

Sam totally suprised me and came to the shower!

All of the teachers decorated funny onesies.

Sam's co-workers also threw a shower which I went to because it would have been so akward for Sam to ooh and ahh over the baby girl gifts! Sam's co-workers were unbelievably generous and basically wiped off most of the items that were left on our registry.

The weight of being a parent is sinking in as I watch the "days until due date" counter tick down. It still seems so unreal that Lucy could literally come any day now. This morning at church we watched several baptisms and I was overwhelmed with the hope that our little girl will have a testimony someday that honors Christ and that God would entrust Sam and I to play a part in that. Wow. I also couldn't help but feel incredibly grateful this morning thinking on all the ways that He has prepared us for this next venture. He has placed so many people in our lives that have blessed us both with their physical gifts and their wisdom and support.

We may never be prepared for what is coming... but God has been faithful in helping us get closer....

(But seriously Lucy- you just stay in there and bake as long as you need to) :)

From a 3rd grader's perspective

Nothing like a 3rd grade student to boost your self esteem when feeling particularly 'whale-ish'
These were just too funny for me to keep to myself! 3rd graders are fascinated by my 'baby on board' and I have been getting lots of interesting pictures and gifts. Click on the photos to enlarge. It took me a while to decode the above letter but my favorite line "Yuo ar da jol tichor in da jol worl" I also like that even though they've never seen him- both pictures offer such acurate depictions of my "hasben"

I like how this kid thought it would be best for Mr. and Mrs. Swanson to be wearing 'luci' t-shirts. And- look at all those hearts- we must really be in serious l-o-v-e!!

Labor Day Weekend

This labor day weekend we took advantage of a free Saturday at the Nasher Sculpture center downtown. We couldn't resist posing with my likeness above^^ Consider this my 34 weeks belly shot.

Sam was particularly impressed to see Picasso works on a Saturday morning

After we got our dose of culture (which was only 45 minutes because that is all the change we had to feed the parking meter!!) we headed over to Jackie and Jeremy's to cheer on the Baylor bears! I'm happy to report that Lucy is now the owner of her first Baylor onsie and booties so she'll be ready to finish out football season with us when she gets here.

The fact that we will soon be a family of three is becoming a little more real each day. Sam felt like things really hit home when he read that at 34 weeks the baby's fingernails had reached the ends of her fingertips. ha! (He warned me that fingernails were coming out in there- he then watched the Discover channel special on cats in the womb- and told me I should be glad Lucy isn't growing claws in there!- OR IS SHE?) Guess we'll find out soon...