Family Baby Shower

This was the mother of all baby showers. My wonderful family put this on for me and it was fantastic. It was suppose to be a "come and go" type shower, but evidently everyone just stayed. HA! Oh well, it was so much fun and boy, I mean girl, did we clean up. HA!

The shower was in the morning so they had a little brunch type table set for us to  munch on. Delish. It was also fun because my sister and my bestie Jendy were there in all their pregnant belly glory. We 3 have done everything together, so it is really special to be pregnant together now. Jendy and I are only 2 weeks apart. Her due date is Feb. 15th. I may or may not be a tad jealous she is going to have her baby boy before me at this point.

Here is a bump pic of the 3 of us.

On to the shower:
The adorable diaper cake center piece my mom and sisters made me.

Me and the Grandmas.

Presents! Making sure Ele's clothes fit. :)

I asked everyone to write me and Ele some encouragement/advice notes. These will be so precious to look back on over the years.

Family/Hostesses Shot. Thank you all for a beautiful and wonderful shower! We are truly bless to have so many wonderful family and friends in our lives supporting this newest and greatest adventure.

Small Group Baby Shower

Tonight we were surprised big time by our small group. Every few weeks we all go out on a group date night, tonight the plan was to go to Abeulos, which I was very excited about. Anyway, we walk in and start scanning the restaurant for our group. Right in front of me I see these big "It's a Girl" balloons and think "oh how sweet someone is having a baby shower." Then I look closer and realize I am that someone having a baby shower! HA! So slow. Chad and I were both definitely surprised!!

It was fun to have a quaint little shower complete with a cake and lots of great clothes, diapers and baby things.
Sadly, because I didn't know about it I didn't have my camera to take any pictures. :( The only copies I got are in your scrapbook.

I just can't get over all the love people keep showing us. And to think we still have our BIG family shower yet! I love getting all these baby things. They are just so much fun. Can't wait for you to get here now and try it all out.

School Shower

So we had our school baby shower yesterday! It was great! We (Leighton) made out like bandits...I wasn't expecting such generosity from the school. I mean I thought they would get cheaper things like clothes or blankets even diapers. But we got that and more! We got two "high chair" table chairs, a bouncy seat, and TONS of bath accessories! It was amazing...I can't wait for the other showers, baby things are so much fun! I was just so appreciative that they did that for us/Chad...it was far more than expected and asked for and made us feel special!

One teacher made Chad this Daddy In Charge Apron. It is a riot. Complete with goggles and tongs for those extra special diapers he will be changing this summer. HA!

I am bummed I didn't get a picture of the cake and food table, but it was awesome.  It was a great shower and just humbling to be cared for like that by a community of people. They were all so sweet. Plus, it was fun that Chad got to be apart of at least one shower. ;)