Baby Shower

My cousin Jessica came down from Northern Virginia today to host a shower for baby Scott. We've been friends since we were crawling around in diapers ourselves. Below is the beautiful and absolutely delicious cake that her mom sent from Our Daily Bread.


Jess actually gave me a ton of maternity clothes back when I was 8 weeks pregnant, including this black dress.

Grandma Rita giving some tummy love.


I love this picture of Rachael's baby Ellie crawling over to help with presents.

Baby blankets were a big theme at the shower. Aunt Anza crocheted this adorable one with little teddy bears.
Here is a jungle blanket from cousin Cheryll.


Lucille Sheppard made the John Deere Quilt.
There were several other beautiful blankets and adorable gifts, but I didn't get pictures of them all. We had our first snow shower of the year and we decided it was best to cut the shower short so everyone could get home safely. It will be fun getting to have daddy help unwrap the remaining gifts.

Growing Belly + background remodeling updates

Flash back to earlier in the summer.
15 Weeks
Almost 15 weeks later.
29 Weeks


Clay's been busy transforming our kitchen, while my tummy transforms! I'll have to post before and after pictures of the kitchen. The next two pictures show the cabinets, sanded and painted white, the new counter top, our first dishwasher! and our new to us stove. We were really sad to send our 1950's, 40in Ford stove to the dump, but I do love how easy it is to clean the eyes of this stove and it doesn't have faulty electrical connections.
31 weeks
32 weeks and 5 days




Clay is still finishing up the trim work, final painting coat, and putting up the back-splash. In the mean time he started remodeling project two - the two upstairs bedrooms. One of these rooms will be the future soon to be nursery. We are having foam insulation put in tomorrow, followed by hiring someone to do drywall.