A Beautiful Baby Shower to Celebrate Zoe

This past Saturday, two of my very amazing friends threw me an incredible baby shower to celebrate the upcoming arrival of Miss Zoe! It was beautiful and it was great to be surrounded by so many people who love us and have prayed for our journey to bringing Zoe home. It was an exciting time and we received so many amazing things. The encouragement we've received from these sweet families has kept us going during this process. Without their prayers and support, we know we couldn't have made it to this point. God has blessed us with so many great people in our lives. We thank Him for the gift of friendship and community.

Here are a few pictures from the exciting day:

Buffy, my amazing shower hostess and friend! Thanks so much girl! You've been an incredible support and friend to me on this journey (and in life in general)!

Dona, my other shower co-hostess. A true friend indeed. God has blessed our family with this friendship. Thanks for all your prayers and support on this journey!

A beautifully decorated table in honor of a very special Korean girl!

A beautiful hand-made hooded towel from my sweet friend Elissa!

Opening lots of gifts for Zoe

Lots of bows made by the talented Becky Loller

Yes, I proceeded to open the rest of my gifts with a bow in my hair!

So happy to have received the musical ball popper.

It was Robert's and Andrew's favorite toy as babies.

All the lovely, "Allybug Bowtique" bows from Becky!

The sweet Willard Girls

Thanks everyone!

a cute tea-set from the Rangel family

chopsticks with a note to "start practicing"

Becky "the bow lady" Lollar

Sweet Mama Jan

My mother-in-law and her friend Ginnie made it down for the shower

Sweet friend, Kristin

Jessica and Elissa, 2 adorable and amazing friends

Talented friend, Jodi made Zoe and amazing pop-out album...

I need to take a photo of it!

Sweet mama friend, Cheryl

All of our goodies spread out when we got home Saturday night.

Thanks to all of our sweet friends who have prayed for us during this journey. We also received some cash and Target gift cards that helped us get the pink car seat (pictured) and the jogging stroller we wanted (stroller is being delivered on Thursday).

We're all set for the arrival of Miss Zoe... hope it's soon!

Love, Paula

P.S. not pictured at the shower was the Rangel girls (except Becca who was my cute helper-girl handing me the presents). They snuck out before I got a picture with them.