Baby Shower

My friend Laura threw me a baby shower last night. I couldn't believe the number of sisters that showed up to celebrate Shelby. We are truely blessed to have such wonderful people in our ward. We got a lot of the stuff that we needed for Shelby which is wonderful. Below are some of the pictures of the things that we received.

I have been also working on Shelby's room trying to get it ready for her. Below is the picture of the wall that I did. Not too bad if I can get those letters to stay up. I think each of them has fallen at least twice. As much as James does not want me to put too many holes in the wall, I think the only way they are staying up is with a nail. Sorry honey! :)

Getting Ready for Shelby

So James and I have finally decided that we needed to get some things done in preparation for Shelby's arrival. We decided when we first found out we were pregnant that we wanted to buy our own carseat and stroller. We found the one that we wanted at Burlington Coat Factory. It is one of those travel systems and will work great for our next child as well. We also purchased a bassinet with some of the gift cards that we received from our baby shower in Wichita during Thanksgiving. My parents bought us this beautiful round crib and have been asking me for like 4 or 5 months now if we had put it up yet. We got everything put together this last week so now Shelby has a place to sleep and a carseat to come home from the hospital in.

My friend from church Laura is throwing me a baby shower here on Tuesday and I will post some pictures from that later this week.

We have a date set for the blessing of Shelby for anyone that would like to come. We are going to have the blessing on April 19th which is also James and my 1 year anniversary.

Holidays 2008

We had a great time this Christmas and New Years. James and I spent the holidays up in Utah. James' sister Michelle and her family came in from Washington so we spent Christmas with them, John and Brenda and their kids and Sarah. We had a blast. It snowed a lot while we were there and we spent a lot of time tubing. We ended up staying a extra day because we got snowed in. On the way home, we all stopped in Kanab to visit James' Nannie that is in a nursing home there. It was good for the family to be able to see her and it hopefully lifted her spirits a bit.

James and I came home for a few days and then headed back up to Utah on New Year's Eve. We got back into Lehi about 10pm and was able to bring in the New Year with John, Brenda and Katelynn. On New Year's Day we drove down to Salt Lake City and went to Temple Square to see the lights. It was so beautiful. Friday morning we went to lunch with my Aunt, Cousins and Grandma. It was great to see them and spend some time with them. I am very excited that they are planning on coming down for the birth of Shelby.

We hope everyone enjoyed the holidays as much as we did. Now we get to start getting ready to bring Shelby into this world. I can't believe we have less than a month.