Baby Shower

by Georgia Lewis The attendance at the Green River Pentecostal Church Sunday morning was 283. There will be a household shower for Kayla and Gabe Owens on February 28 at the fellowship hall. Everyone is invited. There will be a baby shower March 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the fellowship hall for Jamie and Q Sullivan. The youth will be going to a concert at Rupp Arena on March 7. The tickets will be $10. The youth will also be going to the Freedom of Worship Conference in Norton, Va. March 14 and 15. Several chaperones are needed for both trips.

Tragedy struck Misty Humphrey's family on April 10, when their home was destroyed by fire. Humphrey, her husband and their two children lost everything they owned in the fire, which was determined to be the work of arson. Now they're trying to move on with their lives with the help of colleagues who have come to their aid. On Wednesday, Humphrey received a van load of items that had been donated by office managers at physician practices in Lexington. The donation was part of a week-long "Shower of Love" coordinated by office managers at physician practices in Danville.

Jerry and Carol Moore, Sue Buckman, Jerry Lynn Moore, and Brittany Douglas made a several day visit to Dothan, Ala., to visit Mr. and Mrs. Mark Douglas and attend the graduation of their daughter, Lauren. The Douglases moved to Alabama about a year ago. Carol Sims and Stephanie Powers held a baby shower for Angela and Jon Spears, of Somerset, at the home of Mark and Rhonda Williams on May 17. Roma Jean Sims and Fern Roberts attended from this area. Adding to the pleasure was a long-distance call from Rhonda Roberts during the shower.

LEXINGTON - In the last two seasons, Dicky Lyons Jr. has caught 106 passes for the Kentucky football team. Yet those sure hands didn't keep him from fumbling at the one time he wanted to make sure he didn't have a drop. This time, though, the fumble didn't hurt him - or even get noticed. Lyons recently asked his longtime girlfriend Mindy Howell, who also is from New Orleans, to marry him when she returned here after spending a month at home. Lyons waited at the bottom of the escalator at Blue Grass Airport, and when he saw her, he dropped to his knees.

(Editor's note: Click here to watch footage from the UK Hospital press conference of Michael Smith describing Monday's events.) Michael Smith was just about to leave for the store Monday afternoon when his "nightmare" began. He and his wife, Chrissie, had just brought home their first son (Michael's third child), Alexander James, a 6-pound, 5-ounce baby born Friday, July 17, from the hospital. A.J. was born three weeks early, and Michael said the couple had not finished baby-prepping the house, as they were planning on getting many baby items they needed from a baby shower scheduled for Saturday, July 18. Smith said he was on his way to the store to get some final items, including materials to build a gate to keep their dogs away from the baby, and a baby monitor.

Editor's note: This is the final story in a three-part series in which the Journal looks at an outstanding senior from East and West Jessamine and The Providence School. The students profiled were selected by school administrators. Jessica King looked out from behind a podium at the Church of the Savior and opened her mouth to speak. She was nervous, to say the least, but managed to deliver the graduation speech to The Providence School class of 2006. She told the audience of classmates, parents and teachers about her life, and the challenges she had overcome to make it there.

I went back to the doctor last week for an ultrasound. For those of you not in the know on all things babies (and believe me, that was yours truly until, well, it probably still is), by about four months, the doctors can answer the all-important question: boy or girl. Sooner if you cheat and pay for a 3-D ultrasound. But why bother with doctor's appointments or 3-D ultrasounds when there is the ring test? Simple, cost effective, accurate. Right? Well, maybe for some people.

My friend Rhonda told me a few months ago that, with all the weddings I've been part of this year, I¿should prepare myself for the next big event in my friends' lives - baby showers. My friend and former roommate Erica must have talked to Rhonda, because I spent Thursday night back in our hometown at - you guessed it - a baby shower. In a few months Erica will be mom to baby boy Ryne and, since I don't have any brothers and sisters, I have decided that I'm going to be his aunt.