Family

Hannah and Josh’s Baby Shower

It feels like just yesterday I was blogging about my little sister graduating from high school, starting nursing school, getting engaged, her bridal shower, her wedding, and here I am blogging about her baby shower!

Basically, if you’ve been reading my blog since the beginning, you’ve seen my little sister grow up from age 12 to 20!

Baby shower banner for baby girl

Anyways, back to the baby shower. Hannah, Josh, and baby Caroline were showered with love and sweet gifts. It was such a wonderful day!

Mine and Josh’s family spent the evening before the shower decorating, and I worked on baking almost 100 cupcakes. It was really fun to be baking again!

Baby shower cupcakesBaby girl baby shower decorations centerpiece

So many family and friends came to our church, which was decorated beautifully. Everyone enjoyed lunch, cupcakes, cookies, and watched the soon-to-be parents open all sorts of adorable gifts.

Hannah and Josh were so overjoyed with all of the gifts the received. It’s safe to say that all they need now is their daughter! It’s hard to believe that she’ll be here in less than two months.

Husband and wife at baby girl baby showerThree generations of women with babyTwo guys with baby girlHusband and wife opening gifts at baby shower

We left the shower feeling such gratitude for the blessing of baby Caroline. I can’t wait to meet her!

More Sickness, Eggs, and Other Fun

Just when I thought we were all recovered from our recent sickness, I came down with a head cold over the weekend. Man! Who is ready for spring?! This cold and flu season has really gotten the best of us with Sadie’s ear infection, the stomach flu, and my cold.

I missed the baby shower I was supposed to go to on Saturday, but I still managed to get the funfetti cookies I baked delivered to the shower.

Funfetti cake mix cookies

I missed out on church on Sunday, too. I had a fever on Saturday night, so I didn’t think it was a good idea to bring my germs into the church nursery the next day. I always miss being with our church family when we’re sick or away. Our time at church is like a refreshment from the world each week, if that makes sense. I’m really looking forward to feeling totally normal and being with our people later this week!

Speaking of cookies, I also made graham cracker chocolate chip cookies over the weekend. They were good–Jimmy even said they were blogworthy–but I think they need marshmallows. So, basically I want to make s’mores cookies. I’ll share the recipe if I pick up some marshmallows and try again soon!

Okay, onto the topic of eggs.

Farm fresh eggs

My sister-in-law’s future father-in-law (did that make sense?!) has a chicken coop and gives away the eggs. My SIL casually asked if Jimmy and I would want some and I think I scared her by how excited I got. Of course we want local eggs!

I had my first egg on an english muffin for lunch today and it was delish.

Other fun things of note:
-Sadie and I did a puzzle together at the library.
-Jimmy and I are slowly working on getting Sadie to sleep in her crib at night. This has been so helpful.
-On the nights we manage to get Sadie to sleep in her crib before we go to bed, Jimmy and I have been watching Hallmark movies together. We like to laugh about the plot and how cliche it is, but we’re enjoying our alone time so much!
-I just started reading this book and I’m enjoying it so far.
-Jimmy and I are going bowling with our church this weekend and I’m excited. I’m horrible at bowling, but it’s so fun!
-We dressed Sadie in a dinosaur suit over the weekend and we’re still cracking up at how cute/funny she was in it.

Now onto a few pictures to go along with the fun things of note!

Baby and mom doing dinosaur puzzleBaby and dad in dinosaur outfitBaby girl and dad in dinosaur suit

Okay, this post officially feels all over the place! As usual. I feel like that’s a post in and of itself; I feel all over the place since having a baby. It’s amazing and wild and such a learning experience.

Speaking of babyhood, Sadie just woke up from a nap so I better finish this post! She turned five-months-old yesterday and I’m thinking of actually writing an update on her for once… yay or nay? I always enjoy reading them on other blogs, and I’m sure I’ll love looking back on it. Let me know what you think!

Are you excited for spring?

Do you like bowling?