h is for hudson

my sister.in.law, tara, is pregnant with her first little turkey...

due thanksgiving day!

my mother.in.law, tara's aunt, marissa (from paige's paradise), our sister.in.law, denise, and i threw her a shower at my house.

we didn't exactly have a theme, but it kind of ended up being...

h is for hudson.

the color scheme was taken from the nursery.

invites by my other s.i.l., sarah.  cute, right?

this greeted our guests.  paper mache 'h' from joann's, diy paint job.

and how cute is he? (ps, marge, this was your balloon)

diy banner.

card stock + paint + ribbon

tissue balls [in nursery colors...too cute, huh?]

little 'h' onesie cookies.

made by "the cookie lady", sue.  if you live in the area, i recommend! only $5/doz.

diaper cake by my step.mom, beth.

diaper cake topper.

a last minute centerpiece.

we sprinkled some baby photos of tara and adam around.

bring a book in lieu of a card to start baby's book collection.

super fun sixlets.

me, s.i.l. denise, marissa (tara's bff), tara and m.i.l.

she's such a sweet person.  love you, tara...

if you've read my short story, then you know just how close in due dates tara and i were.  i can't help but get frowny when i think about sitting in our kitchen and the amount of excitement in the air when we told tara and adam we were expecting too.  and how happy it made me to know we'd have too little cousins almost exactly the same age...who would, no doubt, be close.  that we'd have each other to go through every up, down and around of our pregnancies.  

and in those moments, i pray for patience and dwell in hope that god's got a plan 
even better than the first one.  

undoubtedly, our family will have a lot to be thankful for this thanksgiving. 

{ jake and i are so excited to meet our first nephew.}

guess the celebrity baby bumps.

one of the little games we had at tara's shower.  

guess the bump.  

see how well you do.

 i will post the answers in a day or two.

...

the two week wait.

[or 2ww in the infertility world]

welp.  i used an opk and also charted and we were go for launch riiiiight on day 14.

jake wasn't out of town this time, so that was a plus...if you know what i mean.

i'm back to taking the prometrium, which makes me sleep amazingly [bonus].

and now.......we wait.

it's times like these when my mom's words ring in my head..."patience is a virtue".  patience ...and deep breathing.

it will happen.


p.s. i threw a baby shower for my sister in law at my house this last weekend.  you can see some pics here at paige's paradise, but i plan to do a post soon!  hudson is due on thanksgiving day.  our first nephew!

 

cute as a...you know what.

shower day!  i had so much fun throwing a shower with brooke and shannon [two DZ sorority sisters] for marge [aka katie],  all the planning and crafting totally paid off and it was a perfect, [cute as a button] day.  us same gals threw marge a wedding shower and i can't believe where we are now.  time seriously flies...slow down!

marge's wedding day

from left: me, brooke, marge, marge's sister, shannon 

the menu | chicken salad sandwiches, veggie tray, pita chips and hummus, parfait bar [with yogurt, blackberries, blueberries and strawberries], mini quiches, button cookies and cake truffles [a variation of cake balls].  yummers!

i had a ton of extra burlap left from a table runner i made, so i used it up on the shower.  i also used mason jars with buttons for one table's centerpiece.  shannon printed childhood pictures of marge, framed them in frames with buttons on them and we used those as centerpieces on the other two tables.  brooke found these on pinterest [wishes for baby crosby].  each guest filled them out and we put them in the mailbox for marge to keep.  our only game was to guess the amount of buttons in one of the mason jars.  someone was just 1 button off!  good guess!

dinner alone at a banquet table.

picture this | quiet house- just a little nancy grace on in the background.  no hubby or dog.  no couches.  just two round banquet tables where my furniture usually sits.  a mess on the counter and...me, sitting alone eating qdoba at the banquet table.  all that was missing, was candles [right, marge?].   this is my friday night.

why?  so myself and two other friends are throwing a baby shower for a gal pal [marge] on sunday to celebrate her little bean, crosby.  i pretty much kicked jake out of the house all weekend so i could make a mess.  he always gets very anxious when i'm baking or cooking or making a mess.  ps- he's one of those people who uses, like, one pan to cook and the whole mess from cooking is cleaned up before you even sit down to eat [we compliment one another perfectly].  i digress. so this shower...i've pretty much been preparing for a month now.  the theme is "cute as a button"...

[invitations by blue healer designs, by audrey...pic doesn't do justice to these 

adorable creations] 

...and i'm just having too much fun with all the decorations.  i've been crafting most of them so that's been keeping me busy on these summer days off.  [stay tuned for pics of shower].  so that's why i sat alone at a banquet table for dinner.  since the hubs was leaving town, we had to get the "shower scene" ready thursday night [jake loved me for having to move the couches, which involved taking off the legs and also scratching the door frame].  can't wait for all the gal pals to be here sunday...minus a few prairie dogs :(