My 4 baby showers

It's been a busy past few weeks. Ryan is such a great baby & we love every minute we get to spend with him!

Last weekend I had my 4th baby shower. Yep, that's right. 4th shower. I failed to post anything about my other 3 showers, so I'm wrapping everything up into one post.

Shower #1- My good friend Cat threw me an awesome shower with my friends from the ward. We had such a great time. I forgot to take pictures until the end of the shower so I only have a few to post. Beka made fantastic invitations and Shauna let us have the party at her house. I love my friends! We always have such a fun time together! Thanks Cat, Beka & Shauna!

Cat & me

Some of the girls: Grace, Amanda, Chelsea, Angella & Kelly

The cute cake made my Amanda Fitzhugh

Shower #2- My mom & sister threw me a baby shower with my family. We all met at BJ's restaurant and celebrated with good food and conversation. My mom brought the ultimate in dessert. Costco's All American Chocolate Cake. Yum! If you haven't had it, you have to try it. It is one giant piece of chocolately goodness. Be sure to have a nice big glass of cold milk with it. Mmm... just thinking about it makes me want a bite! Once again, I forgot to take any pictures. I guess I should delegate the position of photographer to someone else since I clearly suck at it. My family showered me with great baby gifts and we got to catch up and laugh. We tend to laugh a lot in my family. Thanks Mom & Lisa!

Shower #3- My co-workers threw me a surprise shower at work the day before my last day. I still had 1 more day of work before my maternity leave was to begin, and they caught me completely off guard. My boss was in town to work on an HUGE project with me and we were sitting down hashing through the details. All of my co-workers piled in to the office with a a cake and gifts. I had no idea what was going on at first. One of my co-workers told me that morning that we had a meeting in the afternoon to discuss an account that I had just opened up. I wish all my meetings turned out like that! It was a good thing that my surprise shower was not on my actual last day of work, since I went to the hospital on my actual last day. If my shower had been one day later, I would have missed it! I don't have any pictures of this one either. But, this one isn't my fault. It was a complete surprise so I wasn't prepared to snap pictures of all the fun. Besides, I didn't even have my camera with me. Thanks Staples!

Shower #4- My mother-in-law let me know a while ago that several people from my old ward (and her current ward) wanted to have a baby shower for me. I hadn't seen most of them in years. Time was really tight before Ryan was born. Work was crazy and I had been working long hours. Every weekend was packed and there just wasn't time to have a shower. So, we decided to be a little unorthodox and have a post-baby shower. Last weekend, we had my post-baby shower and had a great time. It was nice catching up with people I haven't seen for so long, and they go to meet Ryan too. There were even people there that I didn't know. I think some of the people there knew Tim when he was little and wanted to come celebrate and congratulate us. Thanks Debra!

Me & Ryan


Me, Ryan & my mom. Looks like Ryan is practicing the Hula dance.

The great diaper cake my mother in law made. The little blue hats and booties at the bottom of the cake (you can only see some of them in this picture) were made by Ryan's great grandma. So cute!