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Baby shower part 2….

And on to the second baby shower of the day! (But no one has to know it’s the second one.. because I changed!!)
My sister and mom were in charge of games and they were a lot of fun!! My only request.. (well demand) was they we didn’t do the baby food tasting game. My sister assured me that I’d wish we would have after we played the games…
But I didn’t. They were a lot of fun..
Plus how often do you actually get a picture like this????????????

Each diaper had a different melted candy bar in it and we had to figure out what it was… It was so funny to watch everyone try to figure out what this melty mess was.. they would sniff, and look really closely and rub it all around.. It was a lot fun…
(My mother in law and little sis…)

(Kara and Joanne. My mama Kara and My in-town Mom..)
My mom also got us a Diaper bag and filled it with all sorts of cool things and we had to try to remember as many as we could..
And then we played “pass the parcel” It was a present wrapped in layers of wrapping paper and every label had a new instruction of who to pass it too next. (Like someone with glasses, or someone with grandchildren.)
The last instruction was for a mother to be! Inside there was my survival clothes. A pair of sweat pants since I probably wont get dressed for a week or two afterwards!!!
Then came the presents….
So happy for a bouncy chair!!

My dad got him his first Elmo.. It’s so soft…

And this present was actually labelled To: Ryan From: Ryley. My sister wanted this carrier soooo badly. She calls it a baby purse. She can’t wait to wear him around in it!

My mom made some more blankets.. Which we desperately needed!! This one is brown and blue.. its really cute!!!

And this one is a little bit bigger.. (It’ll be hard to keep these from puppy!!!)

And check out this pile of clothes!!! Those 2 plastic tubs were completely filled with clothes from my sister (and my parents..).. I cant wait to see him in all of these cute out fits…
This was probably one of the funniest things.. My sister got Aaron a survival kit. (He has already informed me that he is getting NO WHERE near a diaper!)
So my sister got him this plastic apron. A pair of Goggles. A nose plug and ear plugs. Gloves. Tongs.. & Hand sanitizer… My parents got him a pair of sweats too, so now he has survival clothes!
He was such a good sport to come down and open his present and try it all on for us…
Thank you Kara for helping to through a really fun shower!!! Love Ya!

And this one is just for fun.. after everyone left we all just sat around and talked. This is Kara’s nephew, Ken. He is a little over 1.. maybe 15 or 18 months. He was a little OCD about these chairs. He would push them all over the place. He pushed them into the kitchen and lined them all up. Then he’d push them out of the kitchen and line them all up again. It was so cute!
Doesn’t he just look like a little monkey sitting there?????

And that was the end of the baby shower extravaganza!!!
It was such a fun day and we got sooo many cute things.

The first baby shower…

Saturday morning started with the family baby shower. I had a lot of fun and got some really cute outfits. I love getting together with all the girls.. so it was nice…
Here is pretty much everyone.. my family is sitting on the couch taking the picture so they aren’t in it…But this is most of Aaron’s family…

Isn’t this outfit SOOO cute?? Thanks Katie…. :)

I can not wait to see him in it..

I like this picture because everyone looks so happy.. Le’a must be telling a funny story…

Love my sister!! Aaron and I are completely ADDICTED to hoodies… Probably more than anyone you’ve met, I have boxes and boxes full of them.. We get one everywhere we go. And I’m always looking for them for baby now.. My addiction with the baby is Hoodies, Shoes and Overalls. He has sooo many overall’s now.. I love it..
Ryan got him this hoodie that says “My first hoodie” Once he outgrows it, it will definitely go in his baby box….

And this one says “Auntie’s boy” He sure will be!!!


The Aunts all made this quilt for me with Grandma.. Rachel helped too. It’s super cute…


My dad knows me too well and bought me this medical kit! Thanks Dad!

I have a blanket that my mom originally made for my sister in 1978. I guess I stole it from her, and loved it basically to death. There isn’t much left of it. It has literally just disintegrated.. It was my beamer. And still something I would make sure to grab if my house was ever on fire.
My mom made Baby his own “beamer” And not only that but she was smart enough to make 2. There is a full sized one and a smaller one to take with us and in the car. She obviously learned from me dragging mine everywhere! She made it just like mine. I’m so happy to have it and I can’t wait until he loves it as much as I do!

My mom also made me a few other blankets. She crocheted a white blanket with a baby blue border that I really wanted for his blessing. It’s so soft! And the other blankets I got at the next shower. So you’ll just have to wait to see those!! :)

I had about 45 minutes in between showers.. So here’s your break!
Thank you everyone for all you did for this shower..
Love you all…

The first day.. and Halloween

My mom, sister and her charming child (CC for future reference) came on Thursday night.. We haven’t seen them in a long time, So it was a nice visit…

They really wanted to start giving me presents so CC started.. She painted me a picture for the babies room.. It’s a forest theme with a tree and some snow flakes. It will look great in the babies room! :)

Puppy was so excited to have new friends….

And someone warm to sleep with…


But most importantly the girls got to spend some quality time together. Friday we took them to the movies and they got to go all by themselves and see 2 movies!! I think they had a good time…


Then is was time to get dressed for the night…
Here is CC as Tinkerbell…


She’s always posing….


And the Em as “Super Girl”

The girls.. Hamming is up…


Me and the girls before heading out.. (oh.. and baby too!)

The girls with one of Aaron’s pumpkins…

A spooky house…

And some blow up thingy…


This one is really cute……

Puppy liked the idea of all the candy….

But just wanted a sucker.. He finally got the point of just licking the sucker and loved it.. (please ignore the grumpy looking blob in the background..)

Halloween was a lot of fun… but the next day was even better!!! Baby showers coming up….

How can that be me?? A.K.A. 34 weeks

Okay… really.. I promise.. I am not as huge as this picture looks. I’ll take a picture in the next couple days to prove it..
On Friday we (my sister and I) took the girls out Trick or Treating. I decided to wear white to be safe..
No one mentioned to me that White = Whale..
Holy cow….
This picture.. for some perspective was taken just minutes earlier…. Honestly not a lot has changed since the last picture…