I promised I would post some pictures of the gifts from my baby shower.  I’m not sure how interesting this is to everyone, so if you are bored out of your mind, I would probably skip this post.  Wanting to share what I got, I decided to add pictures, so I don’t have a long list of stuff.  Since the shower, I have gotten a lot more stuff, but this will keep you busy.

One of my daughter’s friends made this!  It turned out beautiful!

This is a “quillo”–a quilt and a pillow.  Handmade from Julie.

Ralph Lauren onesies–a little bigger, so the baby can grow into them.  From my good friend Dorn.  I love these!

This cute little outfit is from Gymboree.  I got it from Beth.  Her son has a matching one in blue. :)

Cute little socks from Victoria.  I think I need to use some better adjectives other than “cute”, don’t you?

An adorable Piglet outfit!  From Abigail.

A Christmas Dress–lined–from my friend Joy.  She threw me the shower.

Classic Pooh wall hangings and a dust ruffle from Kathleen.

A bedroom set:  Sheet, quilt, and bumper pad.  All in classic Pooh.  Thank you again, Dorn!  I really, really wanted these!

Baskets for the changing table from Rachel and Theresa.  I really, really wanted these too.

A lovely diaper bag from my friend Hope.  It even attaches to a stroller!  Lovely.

A bright Pooh lamp from Kerri and Cindy.

The other outfit from my sister Marrielin.  It has a little pig on it.  It makes me laugh.

That is all I am going to post for now.  I have so much more stuff, but I’m not going to bore you with all the pictures again.  I’ll just take a picture of Emily’s room and highlight some of the stuff I got.  Hope you enjoyed looking at my bling. (or Emily’s bling, more accurately.)

That is the official birthday of our 3rd child.  I will have a c-section at 11:30 and shortly after, we will have our new daughter.  It is a Tuesday.  That is in 3 weeks!  They tell me I will be in the hospital for 48 hours to 72 hours.  With my first two, I was in for 3 nights and 4 days–much better to recuperate.  So I have major surgery and 2 days later, I’m out.  I thought they were trying to keep moms in for longer these days, not push them out because of insurance money.  Yeah, I’m complaining.  Not like I enjoy being in the hospital, I just remember the pain and how it was easier after 3 days.  But we will have a new daughter to look forward to, so I will concentrate on that instead of stupid medical ideas and insurance companies.

We have a few more things we need to get ready.  I don’t have any wipes yet.  I forgot about those things.  I also need diapers and Desitin.  There are a couple of things on my registry at Target that I still want/need, but can do without.  I am trying to decide what outfit to bring her home in.  I don’t remember it being a big deal with the first two, but for some reason, I want stuff to match.

I am just so excited to meet our girl.  I think everyone is pretty excited.  Sometimes David and I ask each other, “What were we thinking?!”  We have only a short time with our older two and we would have been done.  That is ok.  I don’t know if I’m ready to have an empty nest just yet.  I’ll let you know in a month.  (ha, ha.)  I can’t help but thinking how fast the time will go by with this one and I do want to be a mom still.

I’ll try to post more pictures tomorrow.  In the meantime, you can go to David’s blog and see the picture of our oldest receiving an honor at church.

I wanted to share with you all the gifts we have gotten from our family, first of all.  I will post pictures of the shower gifts at another time, but thought I would start with these.  Our families live in MN and really blessed us with gifts.  My husband’s family even threw us a “shower in a box” which had all the makings of a shower, plus the gifts.  We even got a gift certificate, which has been used for other clothes, etc.  Thank you to all our families.  We love you all.  (Stephanie, I even sent out your thank-you card!)

This is a “diaper cake” made out of diapers and other assorted goodies.  You can see it is now a little lopsided, as I took it with me to my shower here in VA, but it was so cute!  Courtesy of my mom-in-law.  She is so crafty.

Burp rags.  I never had these with my first two kids, but they are very cool!  And very useful.  Thank you Teresa!

Onesies.  From Baby Gap.  I love the pink one.  I also got a white one, but I don’t know where the picture went.  My mom got these.

A little outfit from Daniel and Virginia.  I have a matching one in pink that I bought, because they are so cute.

A bunch of bibs I got.  My mom-in-law made the yellow and blue ones.   You can never have too many bibs!

More onesies.  Ditto on the onesies.  You can never have enough.  These were from Teresa and Brian.

I got three of these from my sister Marrielin and her husband, Jon.  They come with matching bibs.  Too cute!

Another outfit.

A white Christening dress from my mom.  I recently got white satin shoes on sale to go with the outfit.

A sweater set from Teresa and Brian.  I love the yellow!  Emily’s room is yellow.

A beautiful quilt my sister-in-law Stephanie made.  I love it.  Like I said, Emily’s room is yellow.  I really appreciate the tying she did, because I got another quilt that wasn’t tied and washed it, and it is a little bunchy now.

That is it for now.  I think I am missing some pictures, so I will have to get them up at some point.  Look for more pictures!

Lately, because of my plumbing problems, I have been drinking a whole lot of water.  I like to put a slice of lemon in it and also a lot of ice.

Do you think it is a problem that I try to pick out all the ice chips and crunch them up?  I’m not talking whole ice cubes, but just the chips?  Yesterday, I filled a cup with ice, separated the cubes and crunched down all the chips.

Then I added water to the cubes and drank the water, but boy were the ice chips good.

Yeah, that is weird…