A shower of blessings, and other showers.

On Tuesday night we had a lovely shower for Nikki. My Mom, sister Gwen, and her daughters came up from ABQ/Edgewood for the event (at right). Our dear friend Kris hosted the event, helped by our dear friends Kelley and Rachel, and it was a lovely evening! If you would like to see more photos, I have uploaded the ones I took here. Many friends came and rejoiced with us, and were so very generous to Nikki and Tim!

Tim and Nikki left early the next morning, and had a fine flight to Atlanta, and then it got bumpy heading to Grand Rapids. There was such a storm over GR that the plane could not land, and circled until they started running out of gas. They were rerouted to South Bend, IN, about 15 minutes of air-time from GR. There, it was also discovered that the static arrester on the plane had been hit by lightening, so they had to wait almost 2 hours to have it replaced (while they sat in the plane on the tarmac.) Then, they took off, but still couldn't get to GR from the south, so they headed over Chicago, and up Lake Michigan, and crossed to the north of the storm, and then managed to land between storm about 40 minutes later. Then the next storm hit as they drove home from the airport, and Tim ended up floating the Subaru through one intersection in the downpour. The electricity was dfown from about 3:00 yesterday until about 3:00 this afternoon at Tim's house! We are so grateful they are safe.

And for those of you at the shower, you know what Nikki is most frightened of (thiunder and lightening)...so this was quite a growing experience for her!