Baby Showers!

We were so blessed this week...we had TWO baby showers! The first one was on Wednesday. The girls at work threw me a diaper party/baby shower. Poor Avery had NO diapers, so they got us all stocked up on that essential. Here are some of the pictures. It was at 07:30 am, so everyone was sleepy from working the night before! Loving the food!

The beautiful cake Karen brought...and so yummy! I am still eating it!

The spread...Jaci made the diaper cake...isn't it so cute!

Present time! This is a cute little frame with a spot for her hand and foot prints from Gennifer and William.

Diapers!

Sabrina even came in from Galveston. She made the most awesome basket FULL of stuff...she said she went crazy buying Pink, she has 2 boys :)

I worked Sunday and Wednesday nights...but by Thursday night I was feeling horrible! I had been fighting a cold for about a week and a half and it finally caught up with me. Josh took care of me though, he made me peppermint tea:

And a steak dinner!

By Saturday I was feeling MUCH better. We had some people come over for the Saints game...unfortunately I didn't take ANY pictures.

Here are the belly pictures from before church on Sunday. I am 37 weeks and 3 days here.

After church, I thought we were going over to our friends house for lunch. But they surprised me with ANOTHER baby shower! This was thrown by the girls Josh goes to school with. They are so sweet, and have become really good friends over the last 3 years.

Aimee made awesome desserts!

The girls...

The guys...

More presents! Joe's fiance Leah made us our decorative wall letter for over Avery's bed. She painted them and put the ribbons on them and everything!

Chris and Aimee got us the cutest little ruby slippers.

Pete and Kelly got us a personalized Avery sippy cup and her bathtub.

After the baby shower, Josh and I went to BabiesRus to get the last few things we needed for baby. It was a lot of little stuff like crib and pack n play sheets, burp cloths, receiving blankets, and bottles. We used the remaining gift cards so it wasn't expensive at all. I still have to wash and put away that stuff, but I feel like for the most part we are ready! I started having some contractions in church yesterday...but they stopped. It is just so unreal to think that she can come at any time now!

I have to work the next three nights which I am DREADING! I have been getting so swollen after being on my feet for 12 hours, my hands are starting to swell a little bit too. But everything has been fine with my blood pressure and all. This is just the discomforts of pregnancy. Our next doctor's appointment is on Thursday, they will check me then to see if I am dilated at all. Hopefully all the working and walking will help to be a little bit dilated! That is all that is new with us...just getting ready for baby!

Waiting on Baby!

Monday after Josh and I took the maternity pictures we went to Build-a-Bear. I thought it would be cute if we made a little bear for Avery. Josh picked out a bunny for her, it's really soft! It was cute, they had us each make a wish and put a heart in the bunny, one for her mom and one for her dad. Josh had fun, cleaning her off...he is such a good sport! I know a lot of men would not do stuff like this for their daughters. The final product!

Hopefully Avery will like it, I was thinking she could use it as her lovey or something like that.

When we got home that evening, Wal Mart called and said Avery's stroller, car seat and swing had arrived for pickup. So Josh and I went out again in the FREEZING cold to get her stuff. This is her daddy putting together the stroller.Here I am trying to figure out her swing.

Ta-Da! I picked out neutral colors for her car seat and stroller so we can use it for another baby. We had to try out her new stuff with her bunny!

This swing is pretty cool. You just set the car seat in it, and it swings, vibrates and plays music. It was about half the price of the regular swings, and most babies LOVE their car seats.

Her stroller is really neat too. We got the travel system, so the car seat fits in it while she is little. After she outgrows the car seat, it is just a regular full sized stroller.

While we were out last weekend, I picked up some of the finishing touches for Avery's room. Josh got everything hung and put together while I was at work this week. We decided to put together her dresser, I was able to arrange the room where everything fits. She also has SO many clothes, we needed it to help store everything! I found these little baskets at GardenRidge and they match her room perfectly, I just have to figure out what to put in them!

Here is a picture of her changing table in the corner, with another shelf and baskets over top of it. I plan on storing some of her diapers and diaper changing stuff in those baskets. Josh was funny, he had regular mounting screws to put the shelves up with, but he had to go back to Home Depot to get the super strong reinforced ones so the shelves wouldn't fall on his baby girl :) He is going to be such a good daddy!

Here is just another shot of her crib.

I had four days off last week and we got A LOT of stuff done. I got all of her bedding, blankets and clothes washed. We put up the pack-n-play in our room, that is where she will be sleeping right after she is born. I have my hospital bag mostly packed. We got her stroller and swing put together, Josh just needs to install the car seats in the car. I am 36 weeks and 3 days now, I know the next few weeks will fly by, that is why I wanted to get as much done before hand as possible.

That is pretty much all that we have been up to lately...getting things ready for Miss Avery. It has been FREEZING here all week, so we haven't gotten out of the house very much. We are going to go to church today, then I have to work tonight. I have a doctor's appointment on Wednesday, as well as my work baby shower...I will try to post after those. Other than that we are just waiting on baby!

Maternity Pictures

This will just be a picture post. I wanted to show off the Maternity pictures that Josh and I took last week. I was 35 weeks and 4 days pregnant. We went to a little place in the mall, but I think they did a really great job.

I love this picture...it's both of our hands making a heart around the ultrasound picture:

This shot took forever to get right. I had seen some other people's maternity pictures with a similar pose with the ultrasound picture, but it was really hard for them to get the focus right. Once they got it though, I think it came out awesome!

Ms. Aleta got me these little booties for Avery. She will probably wear them in her going home outfit.

Happy New Year 2010!!!!

Happy New Year! We had a change of pace this year for New Year's Eve. Instead of going out and getting crazy, I had to work, Josh on the other hand went out and got crazy, haha! We had a great night at work though, we cleared out the patients by around 10:00pm and had our own little celebration. Here are Jaci and Nicolle preparing our goodie bags: Me and my work momma Tracy ready to go!

Sabrina ready to party!

What is a celebration without food? We had a chocolate fountain with all kinds of goodies to dip into it!Yum! The bacon was for the cabbage that we cooked down. Don't worry we weren't dipping raw bacon in chocolate!

This is the night crew that worked New Year's Eve. I love these ladies! I am going to miss them so much when we move back home!

I was actually able to get off work early New Years Eve, so I was able to come home and get some good sleep in until Drew, Meredith and Caiden came into visit. Josh and Drew made the good luck cabbage, it came out great! I fried up some pork chops, all we were missing were the black eyed peas...oops!

We exchanged Christmas presents with them while they were in. We got Caiden a movie and a little T-Ball set. He really liked it!

He also had fun hitting his uncle Josh with the blow up bat!

He is so cute, and getting so big!!!!

I think he wanted an adjustment.

It was really nice to get to spend some time with Drew and Meredith on their way through. They will be moving to Germany soon, and we will definitely miss them!