Showered with love......and gifts!

The last 2 weekends in August were extremely busy for JD and I. We had 3 showers! We have the most wonderful friends and family who took time out from all of their hectic schedules to throw us the 3 most wonderful showers we could have ever asked for. We received everything we will need to take care of little miss Aubree. And did I mention.......she is gonna be the best dressed kiddo on the block! She got so many cute outfits. Its going to be a chore to make sure she is able to wear each and every one of them!

This was the first shower given by my side of the family for me and my

cousin Rose. She is due 2 weeks before me! Shes having a boy (yet to

be named)! Hopefully they will be great friends just like

Rose and I!

This was my special order cake. Chocolate with strawberry filling and real icing......not that whipped cream stuff!

This was shower #2! What a creative group of girls! It was a super foo foo girly shower that was absolutely amazing and beautiful. I have the most amazing friends. Cant say thanks enough!

So this cake was red velvet with regular butter cream icing. Yummo!!! I love cake!

This was shower #3 given by JD's side of the family. It was too precious! The colors were a soft pink and brown just like Aubrees room. Everything was just perfect!

This is a close up of the homemade, yes homemade, cake. Can you believe Leslie made this?? It was four layers of chocolate and vanilla cake with homemade buttercream icing. All of the hostesses did a wonderful job but I have to give props to my sister-in-law for making the cake and all of the other sweets too including cake balls!

This is what the living room looked like after the marathon weekend of showers. Who could ask for anything more? We are so blessed. Thanks to each and everyone of you who helped to make both weekends so special.

All for Aubree

JD has been hard at work on the nursery!!! He is too cute. He said he feels like its the only thing he can do since I'm the one carrying the baby. He and my brother did a wonderful job at something neither one of them really even knew how to do. Whats even better is that they actually liked doing it and they were both so pround of the finished room. I can't wait to tell Aubree how much hard work her daddy and Uncle Micheal put into making her room just right! She too is a lucky girl!

Step 1: Paneling on the wall

Step 2: Chair rail

Step 3: Tear out carpet and paint


Step 4: Floors in

Step 5: Put furniture together

Gotta Start Somewhere

Well, all of this blogging stuff is completely new to me but there is already so much that I wanted to share with everyone! We have had so much going on since my birthday about a month ago so I decided to start there.
So.....to start with, I turned 30 this year. As much as I wanted to deny it, JD and Angela made me face reality. JD knew that he would not be able to surprise me so he simply asked where I would like to go. What I thought was going to be a small get together ended up being the greatest gathering of about 50 friends and family. JD was able to recruit Angelas help and the 2 of them threw me the best birthday dinner ever! Thanks guys......you're the best!

JD and Angela arrived first to decorate and I was able to come a little later.

This was the best cake ever. I could have eaten the icing

by the gallon.....even if I wasn't pregnant!

This is the guy who led everyone in "Happy Birthday." He came
out with his real accordion and his best Italian accent and did
a pretty good job. It was actually really funny!
I almost forgot to mention the birthday candelabra that
came out with the accordion....classy!