Baby Shower Bash

My sis-in-law made this cake that matched the invite-adorable!

 

 What a blessing to have about family and friends together in Tennessee last weekend to celebrate this baby with a shower of food, gifts, and love! I felt so special!

My wonderful friends put together the cutest book themed shower, and everyone brought a book with their gift to give the baby. He will be well read, and I am so excited to have such a wonderful library for him and other kids to come!

Thank you everyone. It was a great celebration!

Guests were welcomed with a book table. Each person put a bookplate in the book they brought and filled in "From the library of:_______________" Now we can keep each book as a special memory for years to come!

Some of my wonderful friends-Each of us will have a baby boy less than a yr. apart!

The hostesses! I love these girls!

My mom-in-law, mom, and me!

With my nieces-Mary Ellen and Emma

I got lots of help opening gifts, which is a good thing because the baby made a HAUL!! It was like a gift-opening marathon!! This baby will be well taken care of!!

Reality Check!!??

Okay, so when you buy OJ at the grocery store and it has the same expiration date as your due date, you know it is CLOSE! Talk about a reality check! :) I AM ready to be a mom, I AM ready to be a mom, I AM ready to be a mom....maybe if I just keep telling myself that, it will be true!

Girls' Night!

Sydney, Julie (the honoree), Amanda, & Ashley

 On Dec 30, we headed to TN to start round 2 of celebrating Christmas (this time with my family). I had set up a girls' night out/baby shower for my friend Julie who I graduated with. This is her second girl, so she didn't really need much, but I say every baby needs a celebration! Plus, it was a great excuse for us all to get together. We had lots of fun eating and visiting. I've known all these girls since childhood, really, so it is so funny and neat to see each other in such "adult" roles now as wives, mothers, professionals. My, how time flies!

Summer, Grace, Laura, Abby, & Allison

Syd, me, Julie

The preggo picture!! When this picture was taken, Julie was due in 2 weeks, Summer was due in 4 weeks, and I was due in 8 weeks. SO funny we are all going through this together...they kept saying WHERE is your baby?? We had to take a side view shot so baby boy Hough would show up in the picture. Don't worry-he's there. He makes his presence known everyday! I think we all three look pretty cute. :)

32 Weeks

On Wednesday 1/4/12 I was 32 weeks. I am starting to truly feel pregnant now...all the lovely things that come along with pregnancy such as soreness, shortness of breath while doing simple things like changing my shoes, uncomfortableness, etc. are rearing their ugly heads! My stomach is feeling large and in charge, and I guess that is because I am about 7 weeks from my due date! Overall, though, everything is going well. The baby is very active, and he does crazy moves all the time!