Baby Shower for Our Baby Girl!!

I have the most amazing best friend! Living so close and being able to raise our babies together has been such a blessing!

My Mom and best friend, Jura, threw me a beautiful baby shower! It was complete with amazing food, adorable decorations, and wonderful friends and family who came to share in the excitement of our baby girl! As always, there were a few minor glitches (like two of my Aunts who were supposed to help out ended up not even coming), but we all pitched in and it turned out just fine :). Austin did great and had a fun time with the other little kids who tagged along with their Mommas. Later that night while we were getting him ready for bed he kept saying, "party, fun!" His vocabulary just keeps growing and he is constantly surprising us with new words and phrases! 

My Mom did a great job organizing all the food!

Grandma Weigel made her famous chicken salad puffs! I must have eaten a dozen of them.....

cupcakes with little babies on them!

Jura did a fantastic job planning the games and decorations!

Casey's (Jura's sister) daughter, Bronwyn, came along to help watch the little ones while we were busy with preparations. It's crazy that I used to babysit her and now she is babysitting my kid!

 

Opening gifts!

I felt like I had died and gone to heaven when I saw all the adorable dresses!

My Grandma Weigel gave me a beautiful quilt!

Grandma Porter crocheted this beautiful afghan!

Oh the little swimsuits.... I am dying to take her swimming!!

It's a tutu swimsuit! I'm so in love!!!

Heidi and Jessica hanging out.

Bronwyn and Austin taking selfies :).

Chatting with my wonderful friends from church.

Catching up with Grandma Porter and Aunt April

Little Juliette did such a great job helping her Mommy with the games!

Austin never strays far from Grandma. This shower had her pretty stressed out but it couldn't have turned out any better :).

I am so grateful to be the mother of this busy boy and his already beloved unborn sister!

Josh and Jura's husband, Adrien, decided to take advantage of us not needing them around and went out for a "guys day." They played racquetball, went to the Henderson St. Patrick's Day parade, and went go-carting! They came back to us tired, sweaty, and starving! We had plenty of food left over from the shower so they were in luck ;). 

Daddy at the races!

All geared up and ready to go!

After all our guests went home, Jura and Adrien stayed to help clean up and then we enjoyed the rest of the night eating, relaxing, and laughing at our kids playing together :). Austin is fascinated with babies and loves helping take care of them! It makes me very happy to see this in him because we are going to need all the help we can get once baby girl arrives! I just hope he doesn't get jealous and suddenly find her not so interesting.....

Feeding the baby a bottle :).

Austin thought Juliette REALLY needed her bottle and she thought it was hilarious! She was all smiles  and giggles!