The Showering of the Baby

Our baby is already pretty popular. Judging by the nice gifts people have bestowed upon us for his use. I mean, I'm not surprised. He is pretty awesome. But it's nice to have his awesomeness validated by others.

Last Saturday, Lindsey, the bestest of friends, threw me a wonderful baby shower. Her mom even made her famous (to me) homemade eclairs. I cannot begin to discuss the wonder of the homemade eclair. I haven't had one of these eclairs since early college years, so this was a magical thing. And though the recipe doesn't look that hard, I'm positive Ann's eclairs will always be better than anything I could make. In fact, I may never try to make the eclairs myself because why ruin the wonder of the magical eclairs?

(This is the stud outfit from Jen to match the party dress I got for her little girl. THEY WILL PROBABLY FALL IN LOVE SOMEDAY.)

This shower was made up of friends from high school, dance years, college, and my current ward. All the girls there were either pregnant or had recently just had a baby--we love the babies in Utah! It was fun to catch up with everyone and eat the magical eclairs and other goodies Lindsey whipped up.


We also all marveled about the craftiness of Lindsey who had cute decorations and favors. Plus she also designed this wicked cool shelf and had her dad make it for me. There is no picture of it right now. Because I am not good at taking pictures.

In fact, this picture of me and AnnDee and Toni--my amazing college roomies--will be the last of this post because while I may have taken the camera to the next shower, I may have never actually pulled it out of my purse. Details.

After the friend shower was wrapped up, Mom and I headed over to Sandy for a shower with Coralie's side of the family. I don't get to see this side of the family very much, so it was nice to have a get together with them.

They were also very talented with the food, and I'm pretty sure the doctor would not be impressed with the amount of sugar I consumed this day. I will probably not tell him.

The aunts and cousins were super generous, and, again, our baby will be thouroughly loved, as is evidenced by the wonderful gifts that were given to help us on our adventures in parenthood.

(Imagine a pile of presents here.)

BLESSINGS!

Baby Showering!

Here's an old baby bump pic. I'm 30 weeks here. I'm now 32 weeks. Which is freaky!!

My wonderful mother, sisters, and sister-in-law threw me a baby shower for our side of the family and for people from our (old and new) ward. There was so much food and so many people I love came to wish us well on the new baby adventure!

All these women were like second mothers to me. They know me very well.

Wendi and Jo are not like second mothers to me, bc they are my sisters. But I love them very much.

Little ceramic baby shoes! Once I have the baby I will get my own personalized pair. I think it's so cute! It will be a great keepsake.

I also loved the bath stuff we got. Hooded towels make me happy.

There were many other wonderful and thoughtful gifts. But these are the only pictures on my camera. Before yesterday we really didn't have anything for the baby, but now I just feel so blessed! We got a super cute bouncy seat and adorable clothes. Plus it's just so fun to see people that you love but don't get to see very often! So yay for the baby shower! And thanks to my mom and sisters!

Halloween 2009

Late on the Halloween and pumpkin carving, but that's okay.

Sometimes things die. And since I don't know which sibling has the pictures of Rich and I from our Millett family get together, I instead took a picture of the pumpkins on the porch. They've been there for two weeks. Some (a lot) mold is creeping in. And they are wrinkly. But this is just a life lesson that NOTHING LASTS.

And we are still cute. Perhaps not-so-artistic, but cute.

Rich's pumpkin depicts a spider. With 6 legs. Sometimes spiders have 6 legs. But normally they are called ticks when they do. However, Lyme Disease can be scary. It does kill a small percentage of Americans every year.

My pumpkin is happy (though he does look scarier bc of the mold--GINGIVITIS). I like to make easy carvings. Pretty much every year I make a huge pumpkin mouth. And I finish carving my pumpkin in like 7 minutes. Which is what I'm going for. Plus, this year, I got Rich to clean out the pumpkin guts. So really, my effort in the whole carving endeavor was minimal.

Rich really likes roasted pumpkin seeds, and he made the whole family donate their guts to his collection. He cleaned all the seeds and got them ready so I could roast them. They are surprisingly good. Last year he did the whole process by himself, but this year I needed to step in to make sure the seeds got cooked.


I made three different kinds. Rich really likes the ones with Worcestershire Sauce, I wanted to try some with some cheese flavoring, and I wanted some plain ones to use in granola. I have been planning a part two to the homemade granola I made in the crock pot in the spring, and the craving has heightened since I have some seeds to put in it! We'll see if I make some.

I really want to.

But a lot of the time my wants/intentions get pushed to the wayside by my intense laziness.