30 Week Baby Shower!

30 Week Milestone!!

What was on my mind at 30 weeks?
"Only 10 weeks left?!... uhh... WOW!!"

How do we celebrate the big 30?

Baby Shower, Baby!!!

 Hostess gifts!  

My first attempt at making kitchen towels. :-)

 The most incredible peonies I've ever seen!  

I've never seen them that big before!

 Beautiful spread!

Also love the flowers!  

Thank you Cindy and Abbey for going to the flower market and arranging these gorgeous, vintage looking flowers. :-)

 Libby's handsome little boy, Jonah!

 Delicious and amazingly decorated sugar cookies by Susan!

I NEED to learn how to do this.

 Cindy & Kari Jane

 Susan, Melissa & Nina

 Sweet little bows for decoration

Love this pic so much!  Katie is going to LOVE Michele!

 More of the beautiful flower arrangements

 The Ralston girls & me!

So grateful to be part of their family!

 Mom and I reenacting the way I used to stick my belly out as a toddler and try to push people over with it.  I bet I'd do a lot more damage these days!

 Opening KG's gifts!

 My cousin Brittany made this dress, along with another one and an adorable onesie!  

Can't believe her!  They are so cute!

 Big bag of goodies for KG from her CeCe!

 Every gift was so special.  Loved how Cindy wrapped each one with a special note.

The one that went with the blanket she made for Katie made me cry... not that it's that hard to do these days. ;-)

 Most priceless mother and daughter photo.  Just love how Mother is looking at Cindy here. :-)

 Gifts!  
This is the exquisite blanket CeCe made for her Katie Grace!

Great generations pic. :-)

Beautiful and gracious hostesses!  Thank you all SO, SO much!

My beautiful sisters-in-love!

What an amazing afternoon.  I am so grateful to all the wonderful hostesses that worked tirelessly to create such a beautiful shower that I will always remember!  

I was just in awe of all the love in that house.  

Katie Grace is going to be one very loved little girl.

Thank you to everyone for all the beautiful gifts!  

I couldn't believe how many personalized, homemade pieces there were.

On top of that, there was the most amazing food!  Homemade cake balls by one of my best girlfriends Emily, homemade sugar cookies decorated with onesies and little baby faces by Susan, homemade muffins by my mom and Cindy, a special chocolate sauce for the fruit that Frances had to track down that she and her hubby found at a little place in Oregon... 

the list goes on! 

So special!

I was so excited for the shower that I only slept about 3 hours the night before!  

Part of that was because I was up late sewing hostess gifts, but then I woke up at about 6 AM feeling giddy and totally ready to start the day!  

Thankfully, the shower was during the time I still had my burst of energy, so I had a blast and felt great.  

I was so happy to go home and take a nap after the shower.  

Thankfully, my sweet hubby brought all the gifts up to our apartment in the hot, hot weather while I got comfy.  After a little rest, we went to the movies.  

What a great day!