39.5 Weeks

Okay Baby Bowie. You can make your appearance any time now! Yesterday Josh and I went to an outdoor wedding in Hastings and he was inspired to take some photos documenting this last week(ish) of my pregnancy. At first when I looked through these I was like, "damn, I'm the giantest ever!" and then I looked through them again and was like, "damn, look what I grew. I'm amazing." Here you go Baby Bowie. This is what we looked like at the very end:

Baby Bowie's Nursery

It's done! We're ready for our little guy. 

Baby Showers

Baby Bowie and I were very blessed to have three awesome and generous baby showers. The first one was hosted by very favorite friend Jill Livingston and included my loveliest and dearest girlfriends. The second was hosted by my step mother Sarah Blue and was a beautiful day with my dad's family and josh's family at our family home in Red Wing. Here are a smattering of photos from both events. My third shower was hosted by my mom, sister and aunt and included my mom and step-dad's sides of the family as well as a blast from the past of old neighbors, church friends and family friends. True to form we have no photographic evidence of the third. We had a righteous thunder and lightening storm throughout and the best cupcakes and cheese platter on the planet. Suffice it to say the third shower was also awesome and you can imagine it in your head.

PS all of these lovely photos from Jill's shower were taken by the incredible Jill herself.