Christmas 2011

Our 2011 Family Christmas Picture--We are excited that there will be one more in this picture next year!

Baby Shower

Several weeks ago we had an amazing baby shower thrown by some of our sweet friends from church.  It was wonderful! 

These are the women who hosted the shower.  They did a great job!  Everything was beautiful and the food was yummy.  I am so grateful for all that they did to make it so special.

My friend, Laura, made tons of these cool pom poms for the shower.  I was so impressed that she made these!  I know it must have taken a long time!  We now have some hanging in Jolie's room  :)

Mimi and Nina

I love this picture.  It was so fun to have all of Jolie's great grandmothers and grandmothers at the shower.  Not many little girls get to know all of their great grandmothers!
(Grandmother Ford, Grandmom, Mimi, Me, Nina, Granny, Gran)

These are some of my closest friends from college.  They are the best!  They all drove down from Edmond just for the shower and then headed back that afternoon.  I couldn't believe that they came down just the be there for a few hours!  I am so thankful for such incredible friends. 
(Betsy, Courtney, Me, Jana, Ashley)

Isn't this unbelievable?  Our friends and family were so generous!  We are so appreciative of all the gifts we were given.  Jolie definitely has everything she needs...and more!

 Jolie was given many special gifts that were made for her.  I can't wait for her to meet all the special people who made them!  This blanket was a gift from our friend Diana.  Cole and I had blankets like this when we were little and my Granny had given one to her for each of her babies when they were born.  It will have all of Jolie's stats on it after she is born. 

 This is a beautiful scrapbook made by our friend Andrea.  She is so creative!  It is really cute and the best part is all I have to do is add the pictures! 

When we first unloaded all of the gifts Jolie's room looked something like this:

Jolie's room was completely full with her gifts and stylish new wardrobe!  I spent the entire evening putting away all of her new goodies.  Jolie is already so blessed to have so many people who love her.  Cole and I were so humbled by everyone's generosity and reminded of what a blessing it is to have a church family that is so close. 

Pictures to come soon to prove that Jolie's room does not still look like the above pictures  :)   The nursery is still not entirely finished but we are making progress!

Catching Up

I cannot believe that its been over a month since I updated!  My last picture showed my belly at 27.5 weeks...It is much larger now! 

This was at 30 weeks.

This was 34 weeks...

I am now almost 35 weeks and cannot believe how close we are getting to Jolie's arrival!  The last couple of months have flown by and its crazy to think that she could be here in about a month.  This past week I have definitely felt like I need to start getting everything ready.  We have worked on the nursery and started packing our hospital bags.  We are getting very excited!