preggo & paddleboarding

This weekend was filled with so many fun things! I had my last baby shower on Saturday morning, and it was fabulous! {a lot of pictures coming soon} I really have the best friends in the entire world! :) My super bestie, Stephanie, even surprised me all the way from Florida!

On Saturday evening, I went to a wedding for a friend of mine, Amber, who I work with in the nursery at church. We were just watching the rain clouds get closer and closer during the ceremony, luckily, the rain held off until everyone got inside... then it down poured!

On Sunday after church we met some friends at the beach. Luckily, one of our best friends works at a local surf shop, so he can borrow the stand up paddleboards just about anytime. So... I tried paddle boarding... and I'm 9 months pregnant! It was really fun, I was being very cautious because I didn't want to fall{don't worry I didn't}, but I'll definitley try again some more next summer when I'm not pregnant! If you don't know what paddle boarding is, it is basically a really big surfboard that you stand up on and use a paddle to guide yourself with! I can't wait to show this picture to Maggie Claire when she gets older!

That was my miscellany for the day... head over to Carissa's blog and link up with miscellany monday!

loving every minute of becoming a mom

It's Baby Shower time to celebrate Maggie Claire!

This shower was actually 2 weeks ago, but I've just been a little too exhausted to post pictures and updates!

This was mainly my small group friends, student ministry volunteers, & some girls from the church. We had such a great time, I don't think I have laughed that hard in a very long time!

This is me holding up Maggie's first monogrammed gift! I loved it, and ever since then, I have been getting so many things with her name and initials monogrammed and I love all of it! :)

These are the wonderful ladies who threw the shower for me!

Sara, me, April, & Lauren- Thank you so much girls!!!

Such lovely sweet treats, the cupcakes are from "the cupcake store" where my friend Sarah works, but she couldn't come, so she dropped off some adorable cupcakes!!!! I wanted to taste the green one with pink icing. It was watermelon flavored!!! So good! This is actually the first cupcake from their that I actually like!!

{In case you were wondering, there was no way I ate that whole cupcake, I think all the sugar from the icing would have put me in a sugar coma!!!}

The food table: notice the ragged fabric/ribbon decoration hanging on the front of the table,April made it and I'm going to use it to hang in Maggie's room! It's so cute! I'll have to take a picture of it when it's hung so you can see it!

This party was so fun, and I loved how they served a meal instead of a bunch of finger foods! We had lasagna, salad, and bread!

Me and Bethany, we both had "embellished necklines" on our dresses! We were definitely rockin it! hehe.

These are just a few of my crazy friends, Kelly & Brittany(Sparkle). They are too funny!

me & my pretty momma, I just love her, and all she is doing for me during this pregnancy! I think even if I didn't have any showers, we would still be set on everything she has given to us! I love her!!! {oh yes, and she let me wear her cute jack roger sandals} She is so funny too, she told me the other night that it looks like babies-r-us threw up in my house! Well, that's what happens when I don't have any time to organize all the baby stuff and put it away! hehe. But thanks to her, she is helping me put everything away!

Diaper Bag! If you remember back to this post, I was super excited about the petunia pickle bottom line diaper bag at target! Well, two of my fashionable friends{they have great style and the cutest clothes} gave me the diaper bag! I am in love with it and already have a few things packed in it for the hospital! :)
We played a game where everyone was asked to bring a baby picture of themself and everyone at the shower had to guess who was who as a baby! It was so fun! {Mine is the second one down on the right}
I cannot be more grateful for all my family and friends who have been throwing me showers!!! I have actually already had 3 showers and I still have one more that some of my besties are thowing me on Sept. 11th!!!! I just can't wait, the invites went out this week, and when I saw them I just fell in love! I'll have to post the invites afterwards when I have pictures from the event! I just can't wait!!! :)

Mike and I are getting so excited about becoming parents, we have been going to doctors appointments & getting all of the things we are going to need for her, and everything seems to be falling into place! It is still so crazy to me that she will be here in less than 6 weeks!!!! I already love her so much! :)

miscellany monday :)

Today I'm linking up with carissa's miscellany monday with all my random events that are happening!

1. I'm 32 weeks, only 8 more to go! woohoo! {hopefully less than 8 weeks, I'm not too excited about going into labor after my due date!}

2. my favorite pens. they are papermate flair marker pens. I love them and I am in need of some more, I plan on going to get some new ones this week! I use them mainly to write in my planner, but they are so colorful and they don't bleed through paper. aahhh-mazing! :)

3. school is in session! Today was the first day of school where I work {even though I wasn't even there today, I had to call in sick... blah blah blah}. I am a K2 preschool teacher, and there is no more water days. These are a bunch of the kids in my class enjoying water day last week. We are officially out with the summer schedule and in with the school schedule!
4. flash flood... turn around and don't drown! On Friday, we were on our way out the door, and it started pouring down rain! Our power went out and we weren't even able to leave our apartment because the entrances to our apartment gets flooded really easily. When the rain calmed down we were able to leave and meet our friends for dinner, but this is what we came home too! If you can't tell, the brown line was the flood line, we live on a small hill and the water was about 4 feet up the hill. You can see the debris line from where the water was! It was so crazy! I felt like we were having a hurricane coming through!

5. new blog design. If you haven't already seen it, I made a new blog design! I absolutely love it!! I designed the header myself, and I finally learned how to make myself a button with a grab box! What do you think?? Also, please feel free to grab my button and add it to your collection!

6. weekend full of baby showers. I attended two baby showers on Saturday and they were both really fun! When you are pregnant, you get to know a lot of pregnant ladies! haha, at Jessica's shower there were 5 of us there that were pregnant! My due date is just a few days ahead of Jessica, even though, I'm sure she'll deliver before me... this is her 2nd baby boy on the way!

Jenna, Jessica, Katie, & me {Jess Ray... you left right before we took this!}

I'm so glad we got this picture on Saturday, because today Whitney had her baby!!!!!!

Gemma Lane Randall was born tonight weighing in at 7 lbs 7 ozs 20.5 inches long

I plan on going to visit with her tomorrow. I am just too excited for her and can't wait to love on sweet baby Gemma! Gemma and MC will be best buds! :)

Courtney's baby shower... Whitney, Abbey, Courtney, & me

tomorrow my sweet small group friends are throwing me a baby shower and I am just so excited! I can't wait! My friend April keeps telling me how excited she is because her and Sara have so much stuff planned! ahhh..... I can't wait! Let's celebrate maggie claire!

work baby shower! :)

My awesome, fun, amazing friends {Lauren & Brittany} at work decided to throw me a baby shower for miss maggie claire on the way!!! I was just too excited when they told me, and have been looking forward to it!

This was the cake... {I managed not to get a picture of the food table}

These were the wonderful gifts...

{I am so blessed}

I did a lot of holding up things to show everybody...

Me & my crazy friend Lauren with a balloon under her shirt...

And these were the girls who helped with it all!

Lauren, me, Alex, Carly, & Brittany

{Carly & Brittany are both getting married within the next 3 months... I am too excited for them!}

I cannot thank yall enough!!! I had so much fun & everything was wonderful!! There were other coworkers who helped with it all: Laura, Dee, Pam, Beth, and Wendy!! {sorry if I forgot anyone else who helped with the food}

thank you thank you thank you!

ps- I have decided that my face has started the "pregnant chubby face" look! My friend had my camera at the shower to take pictures of everything for me, and in just about all of the pictures, I feel like I look huge! These were the only ones I felt like were worth showing!!! I was hoping that I didn't start the "feeling huge" part until the last 5 weeks of my pregnancy, but hello everyone, I feel huge and I'm 30 weeks pregnant!

On another note, I am so excited that it's the weekend! I'm definitely not crazy enough to go out shopping this weekend because of it being tax free weekend, but I'm thinking about going to another consignment sale in the morning! We'll see if I actually get up for it! :)

celebrating baby Tate! :)

My awesome sister-in-law is pregnant with her 2nd little boy, baby Tate Cohen, coming next month!!! Last night we showered her with love, and lots of diapers and wipes! The shower was at my house, and this was the first party{like any type of shower} that I've had at my house, so I was super excited! Here are a few pictures from the night, we had so much fun! :)

Allison, Alexa, me, & Bethany

I got this hat for Beth, for Tate to wear in the hospital so everyone will know his name!

I ordered it from this etsy shop, and I highly recommend anything from her store, It came in the mail in less than a week! :)

baby Issac Russo came to the shower too, with his mommy, Abbi. This was the first time I had seen him, and I held him for a while and he is just so sweet!!! :)

{he's 3 weeks old, and so handsome!}

me & Bethany

Bethany got some adorable things, including this really cute burp cloth from her sister!

Everyone at the shower!

All of the yummy food!

{notice the sunflowers that I have all over my house thanks to my friend Whitney who I've been working for lately, who has her own wedding floral business, and she always let me take home left over flowers, and I just made some arrangements for the shower!}

me {16 weeks} and Bethany{35weeks}

Bethany's sister made the punch, and we put floating light up frogs in the punch, it was so cute!