More Pictures as promised..

Here are some more pictures of Elena as promised. I was having trouble with my scanner and pulling pictures off of my card.

Great Grandma & Elena

One of the proud aunts in my family.

Here's the other proud aunt in my family.

Look at that head of hair!!!

Best of all here is one PROUD Papa!!!!!

Thanks for checking out my granddaughter pictures!!!!

Elena Raquel Jowers

Elena was born August 26, 2008 @ 3:30am.

She was 20 1/2 inches long and weighed 6 lbs 12.8 oz.

She is beautiful with a full, thick head of black hair.

I have been having trouble with my card reader or I would have had pictures up sooner. But, here are a few and I am still having trouble because I thought I copied all the pictures over to my laptop last night but, it only looks like I copied few of them. I will post more from my other computer.

Just hanging out waiting on Elena to make appearance.

Jason's Mom - Michelle - admiring Elena

Elena is almost here!!!!

Due date is Wednesday August 20th. We are pretty excited and can't wait for her to get here! We went over last night and spent some time with Jason and Raquel. We had a nice time. I just wanted to share of picture of Rocky and Elena. Elena is making sure everyone sees her but, she isn't showing too many signs of wanting to enter the world.

As you can see, it is as if everyone else is ready for Elena to enter the world except Elena. Please pray that Raquel has an easy delivery. She has had a pretty decent pregnancy with very few complications and what they thought in the beginning was wrong with Elena they have determined has gone away and is no longer a problem. (PRAISE THE LORD)

When we have a baby I will do my best to get a picture up right away. Thanks for looking at my blog.

Praise the LORD!!!!

I passed both parts of my test on Saturday! Thank the Lord! I appreciate your prayers!

~~PLEASE PRAY~~

I am going to Cambridge today. (I did not want to wait another week to take it in Cincinnati) We are staying there tonight and I will be taking my Real Estate Exam tomorrow morning at 9:00am. I have 2 tests - a national and state. I am given 2 hours for the national and 1 hour for the state.

Raquel's Baby Shower

We had a baby shower for Raquel on August 2nd. We had a lot of fun. My sister in law, Darlene helped put it together.

Boy is was a little nerve racking at the end. Darlene was really having a time of it and I felt really bad for her. Her daughter, Michelle, was having her baby early on the 1rst because she had been having a lot of trouble. Darlene's mother had an infection that they thought was going to end up putting her in the hospital. But, Praise the Lord because Michelle had her little boy on the 1rst and she and baby were doing great (baby was having a little trouble at first from being born c-section but was doing great by Saturday morning). Also, Praise the Lord, because Darlene took Molly (her mom) to a specialist and they did not have to put her in the hospital after all. They started a different treatment and she began doing much better.

Here are some pictures from the baby shower.

Waiting on everyone to get there. Rockey was the last one to get there.
Jason didn't want to get up that morning and he made her late to her own shower.

Everyone is trying to find something in there purse that
starts with a letter from baby Elena's name.

We had a wonderful time and Raquel got lots of really nice items for the baby! I am very excited we now have approximately 10-15 days to go. I can not wait to hold my grand daughter!!!!

Congresswoman Jean Schmidt's Fundraiser

Congresswoman Jean Schmidt had a fundraiser at the Hilltop Reception Hall in Brown County on Friday 8/1/08. Keynote speaker was John Kasich. Mr. Kasich has a possible interest in running for Governor of Ohio in next round.

Here Mr. Kasich is speaking. I was very impressed as he is a very powerful speaker.
He speaks very straight forward and with lots of passion.

Congresswoman Jean Schmidt and Jo. Jo is the owner of the Reception Hall.

Jean is listening very intently to Mr. Kasich as he speaks.

Congresswoman Jean is telling us about the blunder that happened at the White House that day. Her staff called her as soon as she got off the plane to tell her that Mrs. Pelosi turned the lights out on everyone, turned off cspan, and kicked out the press because she did not like what was being said. From what I understand this is history first - never been done before.
This was a very nice event. I appreciate Congresswoman Schmidt involving me in this event. I thoroughly enjoyed it!