Baby Shower Weekend

One weekend in September I went to Arlington for two more baby showers.  It was a long weekend, but so much fun catching up and celebrating with friends and family!

On Saturday, my high school friends and Mom's longtime friends threw me a book shower!  As all my teacher friends know I am slightly obsessed with children's books, so this was a perfect theme.  With all the great literature I got, Barrett should be reading pretty quickly!!

Thanks to Andrea, Joanie, Amanda, Lauren, Lynn, and Cheryl for putting together this wonderful shower!

On Sunday, my Aunt Kathleen and Mom's friends threw another great shower.  There was great food plus baby bunditinis from Nothing Bundt Cake for dessert.  It was great for this preggo's sweet tooth!

Here are some highlights from the weekend's festivities!

Beautiful and yummy brunch!

The hostesses with the mostest!

All the guests colored a letter for Barrett's first ABC book!

A house divided.

Preggo cousins!  Janna is due right after me and Julia is due before Christmas.

Hostess pic

Baby Shower Fun!!

This August I was blessed to have my first shower to celebrate baby Barrett.  It was thrown by my wonderful book club friends and sisters-in-law!  The decorations were super cute and they topped it off with one of my favs...ice cream sundae bar!

Thanks to Melanie, Mandy, Michelle, Ashley, Liz, Katie, Ashlee, Megan, Missy, Andrea, Heather, and Amy.  Unfortunately I did not get a picture with all the hostesses, but as you can see from the pics everyone had a great time!

Ashlee made this cute banner.  We loved it so much it is going over Barrett's crib!

I wonder which baby Barrett will look like most.

Barrett's future friend Charlie.  They will be hanging out everyday together when mommy goes back to work.

Deutschland

Travis and I recently went to Germany for one of my longtime friend's wedding.  We thought it would also be a nice babymoon before we become a family of three.  Thankfully we had nonstop flights for this preggo and I was actually able to sleep.  Good thing I did because once we landed, we were off!  Allison did an excellent job planning day trips to historic German towns and arranging walking tours for the out of town guests.  We had so much fun learning some history of Germany and seeing the sights.  As you can see from the pictures, everything was picturesque everywhere we went.  We went to Rothenberg, Heidelberg, Schwabisch Hall, and Langenberg lastly for her beautiful wedding at the castle.

With Allison, the bride, in Rothenberg.

Friends since junior high and their hubbies!

Schloss Heidelberg

Heidelberg

View from the top of Schloss Heidelberg.

Monastary in Schwabisch Hall

Rehearsal Dinner

With the bride

Ready to walk down the aisle!

Fireworks!!

Ready to party!!

It's a...

On June 14, 2013 we had our anatomy sonogram.  We were so excited to see our little one on the big screen!  After we learned that we had a healthy baby, we found out that we were having a BOY!!  We had a little gender reveal dinner with my side of the family.  After we had a wonderful steak dinner prepared by the boys, we cut the cake to reveal that there was another boy blessing our family!

Parent's Reactions

We told our families the good news a week apart.  First was my family.  It was at my birthday dinner celebration.  When it came time to open presents, Travis gave me a special present that had a couple of grandparent onsies.  It took my mom a while to get our announcement, but once she did...the picture tells it all!

The next weekend we told Travis' family in Austin.  We got their favorite buttermilk pie from Pie Emporium (awesome pies in Bishop Arts District) and had them write the good news in icing.  They were just as surprised!

We are so excited for our little one to have such fabulous grandparents!

I'm Pregnant!

Sunday March 3, 2013 will be the day that forever changed our lives.  Travis was at work when I took the first pregnancy test.  I had been told that dollar store tests were just the same so I used one and a very faint positive line showed up!  I couldn't believe it!  I was so unsure it was positive that I called a friend who was currently pregnant to confirm.  "A line is a line!" she told me, but I still wanted to be sure.  I went to the store and bought the more expensive tests, and sure enough she was right!  Waiting all day for Travis to get home from work was torture!  When he finally came home, I told him I bought him a sussi (a surprise we buy each other) but he insisted on taking a shower first.  As soon as he was out and dried off I made him open his present.  He was totally caught off guard and I had to explain the present to him.  Boy or girl, which would it be?