Baby Shower/ mini wedding

WOW!!! I am seriously so thankful for everyone that came and helped throw me the greatest shower ever!!! I can't tell you how awesome it was to be able to get all my friends and family together to celebrate this special occasion. There is one thing for sure, Winston is very popular already and he has a lot of people who love him.

Here is a recap of this wonderful day. PS. the reason I call this my mini wedding is cause I got a little out of hand on the guest list. I think all my friends especially Laura had heart attacks when they saw how big it was going to be. oops! Here's my mom above and my sister Marlee below. They were such big helps at puting this all together.

Here are just some of the millions of clothes that Winston got. One things for sure, this baby is not going to be naked much.

So here is where I have to brag about my sister Marlee. She is so talented and went ALL out on this diaper cake and basket as well as these amazing cupcakes.

So, Marlee and my mom went in on this diaper cake full of goodies. They had so much stuff that they ran out of space on the diaper cake and had to come up with the basket shown above in order to use all the fun toys and accessories that they bought. The picture does no justice unfortunately.

Marlee also made a hundred of these adorable animal cupcakes. They were yummy too. The poor girl had a back ache for days after making each of these.

The Elephant

The lion

The monkey

Here is Nate and I before the shower started.

Me with Nate's mom. She is so great!

There were so many adorable babies there too. Winston is going to have so much fun playing with all his little buddies when he gets here.

Here is Annabelle, Lynn girl. Lynn and Annabelle came all the way out from California to help throw my shower!!! How nice is that? Thanks you guys so much.

Carrie and Leah

Kristen and Karis

Sarah on the right was visiting her family from NY. It was so nice theat she could come .

Here's Heidi, Stacy and baby Eli

Kristen with her raffle prize

Me with Desiree, my sister in law. She was at lunch break from work, while I was getting ready to chow down on that plate of food. Ok let me take a minute to brag about the food. I still have dreams about it. It was AWESOME I was in pregnancy food heaven!

Vanessa with Emily and baby Jace

Heather and Jenn. Brielle stayed home with dad.

Me and two of my oldest friends Jess and Nichelle. We go way way back. Especially Nich and I.

Tricia and Kristen and Karis

Lynn and Marci. (PS Marci is responsible for those amazing crepes which were to die for. Lynn made the carmel chocolate pretzels. Oh my gosh I'm so hungry right now. Can you tell?)

Me with my mom and Marlee

Me with Laura and Rachel. Laura, thank you so much for everything you did to put this together and for coming from Tuscon to go to my shower. Rachel, thanks for coming all the way from Utah just for this. You are the best.

I know I keep saying it, but thanks again to everyone. I seriously had such a good time. I felt so loved and blessed to have so many great friends and to have such a supportive family. I love you all and can't thank you enough.

February

Well I really need to get all caught up, especially since this baby is going to be here in no time (NEXT WEEK to be exact. I know I am lousy at keeping you updated, but I'll tell you all about it in my next post, let me take care of this first).

Ok so Valentines weekend Nate took me on a not so romantic get away to Prescott. The reason I would not refer to this as romantic is that we were there to support his 2 brothers in their State wrestling tournament. It was fun to be there with family and watch all their matches, but I will say it is no fun to travel while being 6 months pregnant. It really isn't fun to sit all day in bleachers either, but I survived. It was snowing there, so that was fun.
Nate went to college at Embry Riddle in Prescott so he took me around a little bit. We stopped at the mall one day and I got to learn something I never knew about my husband. Apparently, in college he worked for a short time at the mall. And of all places, he worked at Things Remembered
HAhahaha, I was laughing so hard. He went up and was trying to see if they remembered him, (he only worked there for like a few weeks) He kept telling the sales lady that he was the one that engraved a bunch of the displays.

We got home from Prescott on Sunday in time for my mom's Valentine's dinner. She loves decorating and doing fun stuff for the holidays.

Here's everyone that was there besides Nate and I. I felt so miserable and ugly that night that I would not let anyone take pictures of me.

Us getting ready to eat.

Brielle with her Valentines rose. How cute is that?

mom and daughter

My mom with Brielle

Here is me that night. This is why I did not want any pics of me. I felt like a cow if you couldn't tell by my body language. If I could go back, I would tell myself to just wait cause that was nothing compared to being 8 and 9 months prego.

A few weeks later, I was actually feeling good so I took some pregnancy pics.

Here I am at 29 or 30 weeks

The week after, I took some more pregnancy pics. This time we tried to be all fancy. I made Nate join me.

First we compared tummies, Nate's still trying hard to keep up with me.

I made Nate do the heart on the tummy pic cause I think its so cute. His heart shape is a little deformed though. At least I got him to smile. He was so mad the whole time that I was making him take pics with me. He hates taking pictures.

Here I am 30 week pregnant

My mom's uncle Lud came into town again. He is so cute. He is 88 and looks amazing. I hope I take on his genes.

That's a wrap

Chihuly at the Botanical Gardens

Wow! If you want to go out on an awesome date night, or you want to impress some visitors from out of town, you have got to go to the Chihuly exibit at the Desert Botanical Gardens. The exibit is here till May 31st

We went with my parents and it was so pretty.

Chihuly is a famous glass blower from Italy. The exibit is all blown glass and at night they all light up. Here are some pics!! Yes all of that is glass strands

This one was one of my favorites, I can't imagine how long this would take to make

If you decide to go, you'll love it!