Liam's Baby Shower!

Thank you to all my Coast Guard wife friends for making Liam's baby shower a couple weeks ago so special!  I truly feel showered with all your love.  I want to especially thank Jill Wood for opening up her home once again to a shower.  I tease her that her home has now become baby shower central and we should keep the tradition alive. :)
I also want to thank Adriana Willingham for slaving over all the food and helping to organize the shower from the very start, as well as Janna Glavan who also helped host and came up with the fun games for the shower along with the group painting for the nursery.  Words can't explain how blessed I feel to have such awesome friends.
Currently it is PCS time for the CG, which means permanent change of station or in layman's terms we are losing a lot of great wives this summer as they follow their husbands careers and move to a new CG station.  I was so happy that in this crazy time of transfer season, so many of these wives still attended the shower.  PCSing is a very stressful and hectic time, so taking some time out to show their love was extra special.
I have to admit in Cha's 16 years of service to the CG and out of the handful of air stations we have been to, Atlantic City Air Station has had and does have one of the best group of CG wives I have had the privilege to meet and get to know.
I also want to thank my good friend Kristen Wilson for attending, even though she is not a CG wife she has been a great support and friend.  So grateful we meet at Sadees Boutique in downtown Hammonton the summer we moved here and our daughters have become such great friends!  It makes me sad to think we have to potentially move next summer.

Just some of the spread

Janna the hostess with the mostess

Baby Simon can't handle all the fun

Michele with Simon, everyone was getting their baby fix

Amber and baby Preston

I am not a bacon eater, but baby
wants bacon, baby gets bacon

First game is everyone writes their prediction of
what time the baby will fully melt/arrive

Second game was a memory game were you had a couple minutes to
 look at the baby items on the tray and try to write down as many
items you can remember.

Tray of items

Love this pic of Kathryn finding the floor as the best place to play
the memory game.  Love these ladies ingenuity and willingness to do
what ever it takes to get the job done. ;)

Gift time, Jill was helping record all the fabulous gifts!

Moment I found out the group gift purchased the PBK curtains
and would be shipped to me.  I was just expecting some gift cards
and to go that weekend to purchase them.  So happy my quest for
curtains is finally over!

Such great gifts from everyone!

I just loved the idea that during the shower everyone had a hand in painting a chevron painting using the nursery colors of orange and gray.  Chevron is also a pattern used throughout the nursery, such as the curtains and bedding.  Cannot wait to hang the painting and I will be sure to post the final product of the nursery.  Thank you all for helping me with the finishing touches to the nursery.

Melanie painting some lines

Every ones names are placed on the back of the painting, so sweet! 

Final product before the painters tape is removed

Thank you ladies so much for making Liam's baby shower so wonderful!  I think O had as much fun as I did, playing with all of your kids/her friends.

We had to end the shower, the way we ended Adriana's shower, with a back to back pic.  Although this time around she is no longer prego and holding her bundle of joy Simon.  Crazy to think that at the next shower this pick will be with baby Liam.  It is a bitter sweet thought, because on one hand I cannot wait to meet Liam and for him to be apart of our lives, but on the other hand my days of being pregnant will most likely be over for good.  Overall I have really enjoyed being prego, I am one of those people that benefits from the hormones.  Cha wishes there was a pill I could take to trick my mind I was prego all the time because he feels I cook better and drive better, HA!  Baby brain is a crazy thing!