I love our friends and family because...

Really, I can't count the reasons but here are a couple....

Because they send us adorable personalized hand-painted onesies like this....

And because we have hilariously fun conversations like this....

 "She is gonna be SUPER pissed when she gets out into the world.....the womb is all dark and warm and cozy."

"That hospital room will be so freakin cold and bright for her. She will be livid. She'll be all WHAT THE F*** IS THIS"

"Oh yeah, she will have spastic arm movements, squinted eyes, perhaps a puffy bruised face from her 'journey in the birth canal.' Babies f-ing hate being born."

and this...

"It's amazing to think that size baby is currently jumping on your bladder"

"Umm yes, and fist pumping my pelvic bones"

"Maybe she has a little Pauly D in her if she is already fist pumping"

"She's a bit of a party animal. Good thing Girls Gone Wild just filed for bankruptcy."

There are at least a million other reasons. We are so grateful to have such nice, caring, funny, wonderful peeps in our life :)

Meeting Surprise

Every other week we have a Leadership Meeting at work. This week the Operations Manager sent out an email saying it was going to run long and would have to be a working lunch. We voted on a restaurant and then chose what we wanted off the menu. I was pumped because my restaurant choice "won."

We started our meeting just like normal and then when the food arrived the Operations Manager said we would need to move to the Conference Room because she didn't want any spills and messes all over her desk. When I walked into the Conference Room my jaw dropped. Those little Sneaky McSneakersons had decorated the room and filled it with presents for baby...oh AND there was cake AND balloons!! COME ON...best workday ever. I was totally surprised; I had no clue. They had all been rushing around keeping things on the down low worried that I would suspect something was up, but they totally got me.

I wish I had more pictures but because I'm a good lil worker I don't bring my cell phone to meetings. (I took the photo above once I got home, hence the messy table). We had such a blast - the whole time was filled with laughs. I'm gonna miss this team when I'm gone :-( We're just going to turn a spare office into a daycare right?

Everyone was so generous and thoughtful. We love all of the gifts...they will be put to good use, that's for sure. One of my coworkers wasn't sure what some of the stuff really was so we had fun explaining to him how swaddles and diaper genies work hahah.

Crazy to think I can count on my fingers how many work days I have left.

SURPRISE Virtual Baby Shower

This weekend I got a HUGE surprise. My friends back home organized a virtual baby shower on Google+ Hangouts.

One of my friends joined from a coffee shop in Colorado [ I'm not familiar with the language ;-) ], another from her Chicago apartment, I joined from my home in Washington and the other ladies gathered at a friend's house in Michigan. That's four time zones represented...wowzers!! I love that even though we are geographically spread all over the place, we remain the best of friends <3

I was totally taken by surprise. They coordinated with Tim to have him hide gifts from me that had been arriving. He even hid the cakepops they sent, without sneaking one!

It was the webchat party of the century. The girls decorated onesies that they'll be shipping our way, we all ate "together" and played games. "Guess how big my belly is" was one of the games....turns out I'm not quite 5 feet around as some suspected ;-) We also played a word scramble game where we had to see how many girl names we could come up with by just using letters from my first, middle and last name. We learned I don't have ANY "A"s in my name....who knew! We had some creative spellings for traditional names, and some sassy new age names like Tre'Erin and Le'Christine. We got lots of laughs.

At the end I opened gifts (ya'll are so generous and I'm overwhelmed by your kindness....cannot thank you all enough!!) I showed the girls some "suggestive" birthing positions in one of the books I have, and took them all on a tour of the nursery via webcam. Ahh the wonders of technology.

My friends are more creative and tech savvy than yours :-p xoxox

Tea Party Shower

On Saturday a couple of my wonderful friends threw me a Tea Party Baby Shower. It was beyond perfect, and more than I could have ever hoped for! From collectable teacups and countless types of tea to lace and pearls, delicious finger foods and desserts (and of course pink!) the theme and venue were adorable.

We played fun games (word scramble, guess the baby food, guess the candy bar, guess the belly size and don't say "baby") while eating together and some talented ladies won very cute gift bags that the hostesses put together.

Our little one is very blessed to have so many amazing people in her life. She is very loved (and spoiled!) already. Many of my friends at the shower are mamas so they had great advice and bought us some of those "baby essentials." Baby girl even got her first tea party set from the hostesses.

Oh and she will without a doubt be the best dressed baby on the block, hands down.

Thank you everyone for organizing the perfect shower and for going out of your way to make us feel special and super-loved. Words can't express our gratitude <3

Also, many many thanks to our friends and family back east that have been surprising us with packages  in the mail for the baby! Ya'll are too generous and we love you.