Our whole family joined in for a most wonderful baby shower for our 15th grandchild!

Even though our family is spread out from Atlanta Georgia to the Olympic Peninsula on the Pacific Coast,  we all came together to celebrate Owen and Mila’s fourth child….a little boy that will be born any day now.  

This will be our 15th grandchild.  We love each one of our dear grandchildren so very much. We have so much love in our hearts for all these children, that it is simply overwhelming.  These big and little creatures that God has blessed us with, that we get to grandparent together, give meaning to our lives.

This day, the day that we all celebrated the newest child in our family, was a good day….a day to remember!

Even Marina, who is studying in Japan, joined in our prayer and celebration of this new wee little life.

This was a good day in all our lives….a day we will always remember. 

Our prayer before our dinner tonight was to give thanks for all the blessings that we are given.  One of these blessings are the bonds and love of our family that stretches across our great country from the Pacific to Atlantic Oceans and throughout the World.

We give thanks to Mila’s Russian family who lives on the other side of the world for our dear Mila. And we pray that they will be able to travel to the United States in the future to see all of us….their family here in the USA.

February 27:

All the Baby Shower gifts of clothes, blankets, toys, and Mila’s post-birth beautiful wine colored dress washed, dried, and ready for Gideon to be born, take his first breath, and be embraced by his loving family.

The new baby carseat is installed in the Rat (our 4Runner). Mila and my go-to-hospital-bags are packed and ready to go.  My Danny is ready to meet Owen with the children and Mila….and take our new Mama and me to the hospital as soon as Mila and Gideon decide to that it is time for his birth.