The Bunco Baby Shower and family weekend!

We had so much fun on Saturday playing Bunco at my second baby shower. My sisters Stephanie and Heidi, my mom Dorothy, and my niece Abby and nephew Craig came in on Friday to throw the shower and visit with Nicholas and me pre-baby. Everything looked beautiful, and I think everyone had a really good time!



My friend Juliet drove all the way from Clemson (via Hilton Head where her husband was working on a show) just for the shower and to visit. It was a total surprise, and I cried when I saw her car outside our house!



Bunco was a great idea because you change partners and tables frequently, so I was able to talk to everyone who came to the shower!





The cake was super cute and delicious!



And I really was showered with gifts for the baby! Thanks everyone!!!



Christine and Elizabeth made an amazing quilt together. It is so nice that I feel like I should hang it up, but Christine says quilts are for using, so we will! I love it, girls!!



This is Abby pre-shower in her Liberty of London dress (you'll see that I bought a matching one for Baby and it is hanging on the door frame in a previous picture). Wherever Abby was this weekend, so, too, was Puck! Nicholas took Abby and Craig to UA to ride bikes and then out for ice cream while the shower was going on. He's a good man--two kids and two dogs for more than two hours!



Juliet spent the night in town, and the next day we all met at IHOP for breakfast! Since I didn't get a picture of us together during the shower, I had to record her coming so far!!! I'm SO HAPPY you came, Juliet!!



We dyed Easter eggs on Sunday with the kids, walked/biked/strolled to the playground in the neighborhood, and watched a couple of movies on Sunday. (Craig had a fever Saturday night that continued into Sunday. He just didn't feel well much of the trip, so I don't have very many pictures of him.) This one is "the girls" on Sunday night.



Nicholas hung out with us, too. He got down his Breyer horses from when he was growing up and played with Abby. I told him that after this shower, I feel like we are ready for Baby. He said, "I'm glad you feel that way!"



And on Monday morning, in her sweet Clemson pajamas, we found Abby again with Puck. This time on his bed. What a sweet girl!



My amazing mom painted the nursery wall in less than half a day!! She used white chalk to sketch out the tree, and then painted it in all on Saturday morning before the shower. It looks fantastic!!



Nicholas and I will hang the mobiles and the "Sweet Lambie" quilt above the crib and changing table soon. Just a few more things to do pre-baby...three more classes (Natural Childbirth, Infant Care, and Infant CPR), get the car seat bases installed in our cars and have the fire department inspect them, and pack the bag for the hospital!! Not too much!