Baby Showers and More Pre-term labor...

Saturday afternoon was such a fun time with some amazing friends...After spending 5 hours in L&D being miserable and uncomfortable, I had the pleasure of celebrating our baby with all of my awesome co-workers at a FABULOUS baby shower! I, of course, could hardly keep my eyes open, but what a fun time we had! Of course the food was incredible and no one would let me get up or lift a finger....what awesome friends! And generous...of my gosh, the generosity! These people I work with are incredible. I love my LHS friends long time :-)

Sunday afternoon was my 3rd shower--full of good food, good family, and some awesome friends! Another wonderful afternoon to help celebrate the upcoming birth of our baby! I just can't get over how many people care about us and how many people love this baby already and he/she isn't even born yet. It is soo overwhelming! I still have a few essential items I need to get for baby Yost before he/she makes his/her appearance, but otherwise we are all set. :-) Of course everything needs to be washed and folded and put away and sorted through...but that's going to take some time! I'm anxious to get it done though b/c this kid seems to be on his/her own time frame!

And more preterm labor....last night I started having more and more painful contractions again so I called my friend Laura who is an L&D nurse and she insisted I take yet another trip up to the hospital. So we did...We didn't get there until around midnight and got home around 3am. It only took 1 dose of terbutiline this time and there were no cervical changes so we got to come home! That's good news for sure! I'm anxious for my appt tomorrow with my doctor...She's so great and I just want to speak to her about all this. The other doctors in the practice have all been wonderful, but I just need Dr. Boes lol!

Well, I've been up already today more than I should be--some of my cool co-workers stopped over to visit and bring baby some gifts :-)--so I'm going to head back to my bed and snuggle up in the covers and watch bad TV! I'm so sleepy today...these late night hours are killing me!

Shower Pictures

These are the awesome rattle cupcakes that my mom and cousin made! They spent 2 days baking a decorating each and every one of these! They even had some with little chocolates on top that they made! They were a HUGE hit! Everyone enjoyed eating these yummy treats!




My friend Tonya took this VERY unflattering picture of my pregnant belly at the shower...but there it is. That dress is actually really cute and super comfy and I'm excited to be able to wear it for my other showers since NO ONE will be duplicated except for my mom--and who cares about that lol :-)




I don't remember what my mom said to me here but I couldn't stop laughing...She's the best mom ever...I love you tons Mom!







Excuse the expression on my face...This is a beautiful blanket that a woman I don't even know made for LO. She goes to the senior center with my grandma and wanted to make this for us...how sweet is that? Grandma also made us the most amazing mint green crocheted blanket for the baby....it's beautiful! I'm sure our baby will carry it around until it falls apart!



This gift made me cry...it was from my mom. With the humidifier she bought us (along with all the other stuff that she's already given us lol) she included two sweaters that my Aunt made for me when I was born. Needless to say I cried :-)





I hated candid pictures b/c I always have the "perfect" expression on my face to show how totally dorky I am! This was from Maggie and Chris--she's a HUGE colts fan and he's a HUGE browns fan--so of course our baby has to sport both teams :-) They also got us a "bumpo" (just for you Maggie) and some other awesome stuff! I'm so glad you could fly in for the shower Maggie--that meant the world to me!


And the BIGGEST surprise of all--the combi stroller from my brother who lives 9 hours away!! I had NO IDEA he had bought this for us and had it shipped to my parents house! I cried again when I read his card...so sweet! I love you brudder!






And this post wouldn't be complete without a picture of my cankles and sausage toes from the end of the day...I guess that's what being on your feet all day in 96 degree weather will do to ya when you're pregnant! So here they are for all to see...and btw, I painted my toes all by myself :-) YES, I can still see and reach my feet!!

Baby Shower #1

What an amazing day yesterday was! Aside from the 96 degree weather...it was just an incredible day!

My mom, cousin, and Grams threw us the most wonderful baby shower! The food was awesome...and so was the punch mom made...Raspberry Lemonade punch! She was feeling empathetic to my craving for raspberry lemonade she said!

There was about 12-14 people there...and I seriously can not believe all of the wonderful gifts they brought for us!! I was completely overwhelmed with joy! We have the most generous friends and family. I told David last night--if we bring home 1/2 this amount from the other two showers, I'm going to die!! We just felt soo loved. I hope this little one knows how incredibly loved he/she is already!

I'm going to upload pictures right now...complete with a picture of my cankles and sausage toes from the end of the night! Oh yeah, did I tell ya? My bestest Maggie was here this weekend and her rockin' hubby fixed my computer!!!!!! YAY! :-) So now I can upload pictures MUCH more easily and SO much faster!