Happy First Birthday Baby Girl!

Our Daughter's First Year (a tribute from her Daddy)

Healing

Time for another monthly blog update! It's quite incredible to look back on what we've accomplished in the last month...and because this would be a looooong post if I wrote about everything, here is a condensed version of what we've been up to since my last update:

June 5th - Baby Shower #2

June 6th - Baby Shower #3

June 8th - Dr. appointment & ultrasound @ 33 weeks...we found out she was breech and facing my spine so it was difficult to get very many good pictures of her!

{Here is an attempt to get a face/profile shot - about all you can see is her eye and one chubby cheek =)}

{Here is a great picture of her cute little ear}

{And a picture looking down at the top of her head that shows all of her hair!}

June 12th - Hosted a grad party for my little brother Zack

June 13th - Attended another grad party for my little brother Zack

June 14th - Zack's graduation!

June 20th - Ben's first Father's Day!

June 22nd - Dr. Appointment

June 23rd - Josh's Bachelor Party

June 24th - Em's Bachelorette Party

June 24th - Rehearsal Dinner

June 25th - Rehearsal

June 26th - WEDDING!!! {Here is a compilation of a few of the hundreds of pics I took that day...watch for a couple hidden comparisons to my wedding day 9 years ago as well}

{A sibling picture on my wedding day in 2001}

{A sibling pic at Em's wedding is 2010}

{Picture of Em and I at my wedding in 2001}

{Picture of Em and I at her wedding reception in 2010}

Now that all of the {wonderful} chaos is over...we have officially begun anxiously awaiting the arrival of our sweet baby girl! I am 36 weeks and 3 days along...which means we are only 25 days (3 weeks and 4 days) away from our due date! We are resting and recouperating as well as trying to get some last minute items accomplished before parenthood. We have another dr appointment and ultrasound tomorrow and will be able to tell whether she has moved "into position" or if she is still breech...who knows - with all this extra time on my hands I might even be able to squeeze in another blog post or two before she makes her world debut! Stay tuned...

My Crazy, Chaotic, Simply WONDERFUL Life...

I sit here giggling to myself as I read the last 2 posts that talk about how busy we've been...because a couple weeks after my nesting post...busy took on a whole new meaning when our life exploded with chaos! Here's just a glimpse of our busy-ness in the past 5 weeks:

This gorgeous, fantastic, adorable, incredible little sister of mine...


...got engaged to the man of her dreams and embarked on the fast paced journey of planning a wedding for June 26th (yes, THIS year)! You can view Josh & Emily's engagement pics via this link: MattShumatePhotography


Our initial days after the engagement were filled with dress shopping, for the bride (sorry readers, I can't share any pics of her dress until after the wedding...but I can assure you, this dress was made for her and she looks amazing in it!), the bridesmaids, and last but not least, the most challenging dress...for me, the (soon to be 8 month pregnant) matron of honor.

Amongst all of this wonderful craziness, we finished organizing the closet in the nursery:

And celebrated my first official Mother's Day! My sweet husband ordered me a spendy diaper bag I've had my eye on at Nordstrom's but couldn't justify the cost...LOVE it..and him ;-)

I had my first baby shower hosted by my Mother-in-law (picture of jammies that say "my auntie loves me" from Auntie Em):

And then made 60 bridal shower invites...

40 thank yous...

and a recipe book...

before hosting Em's bridal shower last Saturday:

Then squeezed in some time to help my sister with 60 shower invites and matching thank you cards for my other 2 upcoming baby showers:

And made 40 graduation party invites and thank you cards for my little brother's high school grad party we are hosting in a few weeks as well!

Pic of Zack & I at the space needle (fall 2009):

In case you are curious, including the 100 birth announcements I have ready and waiting for the arrival of our daughter...that's a total of over 400 handmade cards in the past 5 weeks...All this on top of being pregnant (updated belly pic at 30 weeks):

and amidst the craziness of finishing our basement:

So, loyal blog readers...that about sums up my life in the past month...my crazy, chaotic, yet simply WONDERFUL life =)