.seattle shower.

A few weeks ago, my lovely friend here in Seattle threw me a baby shower. It was a beautiful sunny day and baby Parker got spoiled beyond belief!!! I feel so lucky to have met such great people in such a short amount of living here. Dani's house is beautiful and was so tastefully decorated for the shower...I think she needs to go into a decorating/party planning business :) My friend from work, Lindsey Davenport took pictures during the shower. She is an amazing photographer and I cannot wait to take our maternity pictures with her in a few weeks! So here are some of her pictures.

The hostess with the mostess, Dani....
Lindsay Mayer just hanging out....

Beautiful Therese....another mama to be come November :)

Cute decorations...More decorations...

Some of the presents for Parker man....

Opening presents...

Flowers....

.shower time.

At the beginning of May, my mom and sister threw me a beautiful shower in Granite Bay. They did such a great job of decorating and making the baby and I feel so so special!! It was great to see everyone who came and to celebrate the upcoming birth of our baby boy! He is going to be surrounded by some pretty amazing people! Thanks Mom and Ashley for a wonderful baby shower.

This is my dear friend from high school Katie...

My beautiful mom and sister....

The most amazingly cute cake you have ever seen....

Bonnie and Abby Brust and Katie...some of my favorite people ever!!Some of the cute decorations...

Some more adorable decorations...

.lately.

Lately our life has consisted of getting things ready for the baby, traveling to visit friends and family, spending time outside, and finally getting to spend time together now that tax season is over. It has been wonderful! Last night Nick was out golfing so I decided to do some painting for the baby room. I painted a canvas for the wall...(I still have a few more to paint) and some blocks to put the baby's name on it. I think we have officially decided on Parker for the first name, so we are starting to call him Parker now and it's making it so real that the little man is going to be here so soon! The colors of the nursery are below, and I am really happy with the color scheme, but cannot seem to decide on the paint colors for the walls, so I am constantly stopping at Home Depot to get new paint samples. Hopefully soon we will have it picked out!
Here is a pic from a week or two ago of my baby bump. Its getting BIG!!! But I am loving it because it means the baby is growing big and he is moving around like crazy. I am so excited to meet him...only a few more months and he is here!!!

I still have pictures from my shower in California and from my shower in Seattle that I need to post. Will get to those soon! We are off to Spokane this weekend to watch Linds and Ang run their half marathon and then for another baby shower for Parker on Sunday :) Spoiled little baby already!

.divine intervention.

This past weekend was amazing and we were able to go visit my parents in California and have a baby shower for the little guy growing in my tummy...I will post more on that later and put up pics but thought I would share a story of something really cool that happened to me this weekend.
On Friday night I noticed that the baby hadn't really been moving much all day and that he was pretty quiet at times when he is normally kicking and moving like crazy. So Friday night before bed I spent some time counting kicks and making sure he was still alive in my belly. On Saturday morning (the day of the shower) I was busy getting ready and greeting guest so I didn't really notice if he was kicking but hadn't felt him move much. So as the shower went on, I kept trying to be aware of if he moved and how often but really didn't feel anything. So I was starting to worry, but figured it would be okay that he was just sleeping. We went and got a pedicure after the shower and the whole time I was waiting for him to move, but he didn't. So after getting our nails done I kind of started to freak out a little. He is usually always SO active and he wasn't moving like normal. I told my mom and sister and we were thinking about our options of if we should go to the hospital or what.
We decided that since we hadn't eaten in about 6 hours, we should get some food and maybe the baby would start moving. If that didn't work, we were going to go to the hospital. We had prayed before we got out of the car for the safety of the baby and put our trust in God, that He has a bigger plan than us. We got out of the car and started walking towards Whole Foods and this girl, about high school or college aged, started walking towards me. I was so not in the mood to talk to someone and had no idea what she wanted. She approached me and said "I am doing a scavenger hunt, and need to find a pregnant person". So immediately I am thinking that this is not the time and I have no idea what she is going to want from me. But then she said "I just wanted to know if there was something I could pray for you about with your baby or pregnancy". I was in awe.....
At that point I broke down in tears and told her that the baby wasn't moving and I was worried he was not okay. She just started praying for me and the baby and my mom, sister and I stood with this random stranger in a parking lot and praying for the little baby. It was such a God thing. I have never experienced something like that, but God put that girl in the parking lot right at that time to pray for me. I was overwhelmed with gratitude and peace from God.
We went inside and got some food and then he started to move a little bit, and started moving and shaking all afternoon and evening.
As awful of an experience and feeling it was to think that anything was wrong with our little baby, it was so neat to see God show up in human form and send someone to pray for me and him. Such a gracious God we serve!!