38 weeks!

We're at 38 weeks... and I made it through Mars Hill week without going into labor!!  Aaron got home yesterday afternoon & it was a huge relief!  I didn't really feel like I was going to go into labor that early, but having Aaron 3 hours away still made me feel uneasy.  So, needless to say, I'm glad he's home!

Davis, you're now free to join us!  :)

Some Maternity Photos...

When we first announced that we were having a baby, our sweet friend Lindsay Cloer offered to do our photography for Davis's first year.  I love pictures so this was a perfect gift!!  :)  Well, we just did our first set of pictures with Lindsay, the maternity pictures.  Here are some of those pictures... 

Thanks Lindsay!  I'm excited for photo shoots of Davis!!!  :)

Sewing for the Nursery!

When I decided that I wanted Davis's nursery to be grey & yellow, I knew that meant I'd have to do some sewing because Babies R Us sells zero grey & yellow things.  And sewing projects meant I needed my mom's help.  Thankfully she's good at sewing & she loves her grandson.  :)  We finally finished all our sewing projects today & I was so thankful to load that sewing machine up & take it back to my mom's house!  Here's what we ended up sewing: cushions for the window seat, 2 pillows for the window seat, a pillow for the rocker, the crib bumpers, and the crib skirt.  

Cute elephants  :)

And giraffes!

A pillow for the rocker

My friend Jessica let me recover an old bumper she had... 

So we took the fabric off...

and recovered the insides.

We used this grey chevron pattern.

Mom sewing away!

Now they look like this!  

We also sewed the bedskirt. 

These bench cushions were probably the hardest part to sew.

But I really love how the toy box / window seat turned out!  

And my friend Kaitlin knit this for Davis & it goes perfectly in his nursery!
I was so impressed!!

I'm so thankful for my mom... about a week ago, we were awake until 2:30am working on window seat cushions.  I was going cross-eyed and falling asleep on the pillow we'd finished earlier.  Thankfully, my mom's a night owl because my sewing at 2:30am would not have been pretty.  :)

AiM Baby Shower!

Jessica Bower & Kristen Johnson threw me a baby shower for our friends in Adventures in Marriage, our Sunday school class.  I really love the women in our class & am so thankful to have such wonderful women (wonderful couples really!) in our lives.  Such a blessing!  

Yummy food!

Some of the ladies in my small group

My mom & mother-in-law!

My sweet friend Katie Morin sells cloth diapers so she came to the shower to help explain how they work & to show us samples of the ones she sells.  Aaron & I are planning to use cloth diapers, but we have a lot to learn!  I'm so thankful Katie's only a phone call away!  :)

We raced to see who could diaper their baby doll the fastest  :)

My mom won.  But with 6 kids, she's had the most practice!

I lost.  I guess mom will have to come diaper Davis!

My baby doll didn't want to cooperate.

Jessica, Kristen, me & Katie  

Jessica & Kristen did such a great job with my shower... thanks so much!!  :)