Baby Shower

Catherine, Liz, Me and Kirsten

This past Saturday, my friend Liz threw me a baby shower. Liz enlisted the help of many (Catherine, Kirsten, Tammy, Stephanie, Mary, Lindsey, Robin, Ellie, and Lois...hope I'm not forgetting anyone!). They all helped to make the day unforgettable.

It really was a perfect afternoon with uh-mazing food and good company who could ask for anything more?!

I only wish we hadn't been having so much fun so that I could have gotten a few more pictures.

The food...mmmm.

Some of the people:

Ladies from Roseville Bunco and my neighbor(above)

Some church friends.
Kierstin in the middle is also having a little girl and is due a week before me, doesn't she look great!

Kirsten, Lois "the host" and Stephanie

My favorite part of the day was just having my friends gathered together. Although I wasn't able to visit as freely as I would have liked I enjoyed everyone's company. My friend Dawn from nursing school surprised me and although she isn't pictured, I enjoyed catching up and her presence was a neat treat!

After stuffing our faces and then going back for more; while we visited we played a few creative games that Robin had come up with. Robin and I were impressed because we had so many winners at the three games we played...dang my friends have mad skills!

FYI: my baby-bump at the widest part measures 11 toilet paper squares around...I will never look at TP squares the same again! It is also amazing to me that in a weeks time I feel so much bigger...yeah, I know this is going to be a continual thing until she arrives but still.

One of the games was especially interesting. Robin passed out magazine, scissors, glue sticks and a blank "canvas" for each group to create what they thought our baby would look like...below are the creative final "works of art."

# 1. I give you points for creativity and personalization
# 2 and #7. I chose these to win because in #2 has the big ears that seem to be hereditary and I thought #7 was just a beautiful baby!
#3. they were going for octa-mom but simply ran out of time
#4. I like how they included a hand drawing of our growing family
#5 and 6. I believe at the time I called them twisted...and I think that description still applies.

I had the best time and can't thank Liz enough for organizing the event. Oh, we have officially decided on her name:

Aren't these name letters awesome!

The End

Pregnancy Update

So this pregnancy is winding down and I have 5 weeks left!

This time around, the pregnancy has flown by unlike with Carson where it seemed to drag on...probably because back then we were boring and had nothing else to consume our time with. We have decided in a name (it's about time) and just in time for our baby shower which is this Saturday! I am really looking forward to a girls afternoon with most of my favorite people and some good food...I really can't wait!


While Andrew was taking my picture Carson was feeling a little left out so here he is and then he also loves to take pictures whenever we let him have his hands on the camera so he got one of us right before I changed into something a little more cozy just like my boys.

We are super excited to meet this little one...ready or not!

Days Alive

957

9,788

11,040

Just some random numbers?

Well that too, but each number above is how many days that Carson, myself and Andrew have been alive. At first glance the numbers (at least the second two) and at least to me seemed to be rather large but when you think of them in dollars $9,788 or a $1 a day for every day alive it doesn't seem like a very long time at all.

Upon discovering how many days old we were I couldn't help but think of that in the eternal scheme of things we are just babies and that our time on this earth is precious and that although we feel that we have been alive for forever, with a heavenly perspective we know that our time on earth is really only a blink of an eye.

Which brings me to my next train of thought, are we doing all that we should/could to make our days count? Just food for thought.

P.S. We calculated that Carson will be 1,000 days on Feb. 28th and provided that I am not in the hospital having a baby (I really hope she comes before that!) we are thinking of having a little celebration....kind of like an un-birthday party or something just to mix it up, why not right?!