Blessed

I can't believe how lucky we are to have so many people in our lives who love and care about the family we're creating. We have so much family and so many friends, that the best option was to have two baby showers, and in actuality, we had three with probably close to thirty people at each one.

I've already blogged about my first shower that my amazing, fabulous, sister in law threw for me which you can read about here, and just yesterday we wrapped up the last two. My husband has a very large family, and LOTS of friends, so my mother in law threw a double shower for us, one for me, and one for him. All the ladies came to my mother in law's house for a traditional shower, and all the men went to my house for a pizza and beer diaper party. The pizza and beer was provided, and they had to bring a pack of diapers. Genius right?

I arrived at my shower later than I planned, and was greeted by a TON of people with open arms and bright smiles. It was a whirlwind from there. There were clotheslines filled with adorable baby clothes hanging all over, blue streamers and confetti, a candy bar, and a mountain of gifts. It was also asked that each person bring a children's book with a message to the baby written inside, so there was a table loaded with books with notes inside that brought me and my husband to tears later.

We played the "guess the candy bar in the diaper" game, how big around is my belly, and everyone got to see a tray with nineteen items on it for just a few seconds, then had to write down as many as they could remember. Then came the gifts. No joke... we got everything on our registry. Car seats, stroller, pack and play, sheets, bottles, pump, and everything else you can think of that a baby would need. Don't even get me started on the pile of diapers we got!

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures, but I know there were people there snapping away, so as soon as I get my hands on some, I'll post them.

Now I better get some laundry going to wash all the baby's new clothes and start putting his new stuff away!