April Showers

April showers...bring May flowers. That could be true this spring. Oklahoma City is officially out of a drought with the 7th wettest month on record ever.

But that's not what this post is about...We have been busy with baby showers this April. We have several people in our lives expecting little ones of their own this May/June.

The first shower this month was for a dear friend/couple (B&C) at our church. I enjoy hosting showers, but it gives little opportunity to take pictures of the event. Plus having my baby boy in tow, gives even less opportunities to take pictures. But it was a fun time and even the babies seemed to enjoy themselves.

My cousin whose mom is my mother's twin sister, is due with her baby in May as well. She had a shower thrown by her college friend last weekend.

I did bring Blake to the shower and he is in most of the pictures that I took using my cousin's camera :) This was the only picture I managed to get on my phone.

My husband's cousin's wife is also expecting and I went to her shower on Saturday in Edmond.

 

At that shower they had each guest make a hair bow for the baby girl. They had a craft table set up with headbands, bows, flowers, etc. and hot glue. Every guest made a hair bow or band and hung it on a tree. A very cute idea that I had not seen before in person. (I may have seen it on Pinterest!)

Then the finale was our family triple baby shower which consisted of my sister and two cousins. My grandma has three daughters and they each have a daughter who is pregnant and due in May. It was decided at our family Christmas Eve party that a triple baby shower would be thrown for all of the mommies. Little did someone in the room know that they would turn up pregnant shortly after Christmas. Another one of our cousin's is pregnant and due in September. It has been a fun and exciting time in our family.

Pregnant sisters!

 Three pregnant cousins! (Picture "borrowed" from my Aunt's Facebook page).

My little man played and played and played...

....Until he had too much.

 That finishes up our April showers, but we have one more at church next week! Then we will have a break, at least until my other pregnant cousin's shower at the end of the summer.

Church Shower

Last Sunday we had an amazing shower at our church. My connection group, sister, sister-in-law, and niece helped put it together.

It was a good night/bedtime story theme. We had some amazing cookies shaped and decorated like books, yummy blue punch, as well as cupcakes, fruit, and vegetables.

Not only was the food amazing, but we got some really sweet gifts for our little one. He will be well dressed, well read, and have lots of blankets.

The shower was a lot of fun, and a bit of work getting through all of the gifts. This week I've been busy getting things settled, washed, and organized.

Here's all of the little boy clothes washed and hanging in the closet.

 Our little boy will be ready for football season!

I also managed to put together this little swing. 

And since I'm posting pictures, here's the one I took for 35 weeks pregnant.

Yep, 35 weeks and still so much to do. I hope little boy can stay in for a bit longer so mommy can get everything done.

Over due...

...for a blog post! Actually, I'm not over due. I am happily 30 weeks pregnant. Since the last post I have passed a glucose test and I am just now 10 pounds over the heaviest I've ever weighed before in my life! This might be the only time that being formerly overweight has its perks. I'm not a doctor by any means, but I have a theory that I am feeling less discomfort than most pregnant women perhaps because my body has weighed this much before and adding these extra pounds is not completely foreign to me. However, I have ten weeks to go and I am expecting some discomfort in the future! June has been a busy month thus far. June first was our last "work" day at school as teachers and my staff threw me a very lovely baby shower. My friend Ashley even gave me a tub of gravy mix, since that's what I've been craving. On June 2nd my hubby graduated from pharmacy school and we had a nice little party to celebrate. The following week I immediately began two weeks of professional development training. Which brings us to today. This is my first official week off since school has been out. Now I can sit back and relax. Or not. I can finally finish unpacking our house and getting things more organized. Now we have a baby's room to get ready and decorating to do. So off I go. Hopefully I won't let time get away from me before I update this again.

in the vineyard

While our little kitten was busy getting into trouble on Saturday (see previous post) we were headed to a vineyard in Norman.

Our good friend mentioned a wine making class to us and we decided to try it out.

First we got to pick grapes from the vine.






Once the buckets were filled



The grapes were ran through a machine




And then put through the wine press




We added yeast and other stuff to our juice and it will ferment for a while and after several months we will have our own wine that we picked the grapes for ourselves.

There won't be very more opportunities like this to pick the grapes to make our own wine, but I think we are now interested in using wine kits in the future. This was such a fun experience. Thank you Shyla for sparking our interest in this class.

all in perfect taste

Our small group at church has been quite the happening group lately. These guys are just the best. We're all so busy, but we sure enjoy each others company. (well, at least I do :)

Here we took a girl's night out to see the movie New Moon. We got to be all fancy in the balcony of the Warren theater. Plus we got to use the seat warmers on this rainy evening.





Last night we met for dinner at Zio's. Here are shots of each side of the table.




Then the few and adventurous ones headed to the devon ice rink downtown.
Cynda and Clint turned out to be the ice skating champions!