Monday, March 19, 2012

Showering Baby Avery

Eek!  I'm 3 weeks behind in my blog updates.  Time slips away so quickly, yet not quite fast enough.  Only six weeks left until we meet our sweet baby girl (still seems like an eternity...)!

The wonderful hosts :)

On March 3rd, my wonderful sisters threw us the most incredible baby shower.  From the decorations, to the games, to the food and cake, it was absolutely perfect!  Even my nieces, Caiden, Nora and Karoline joined in on the festivities.  Friends and family showered us with tons and tons of presents for Avery Jillayne.  We are truly blessed to have such amazing people in our lives - our baby girl is sure to be spoiled rotten :)

One of the many adorable outfits we received for Miss Avery

Cheyenne and Cannady planned several fun games for the guests, the most popular of which was entitled "Who's Your Daddy...or Mama?"  This was a game where we had to match celebrity baby to celebrity parent.  Very entertaining and boy, did I learn a lot!  Haha - I should've studied an US Weekly or People magazine before this game.  I think Caiden actually did better.  And she's seven years old.  As one can tell from the picture, Cheyenne takes her shower games very seriously...


And it wouldn't be a shower without some sort of delectable treat.  The cake they had made for the shower was absolutely adorable and stuck with the Baby Peas in the Pod theme.  Apparently, Karoline found the cake to be irresistible as well - please note the small finger print, haha!

Top layer was chocolate and bottom was red velvet (my personal fav!)

The Sunday after our baby shower, at exactly 32 weeks pregnant, Sara Ernst shot our maternity photo session.  Sara is incredibly talented and we're so fortunate to have had her capture my pregnancy in photographs.  Instead of my usual belly picture update, I'm going to share one of the few photographs she took that day.  (As an aside, I'm about 34 1/2 weeks pregnant now, but my husband is out town.  Therefore, I don't have anyone to assist me with the picture taking.  But I do promise to update asap.)

32 weeks