showered with love

My sister flew in from Colorado to be with us and shower us with love. Baby Rex kicked and squirmed and even hiccuped for Aunt Jess this weekend.

The three of us spent some time building this magnificent work of art for shower decor--the diaper cake!

Rex's first hockey game, Michigan vs. Michigan State. This game was the first game that Sue (my mom) ever recalls in her entire marriage to Wally (my extremely type A personality dad) that they stayed until the very end of an event. You see Wally always, save this weekend, leaves big events early to beat the rush of traffic. It was quite a phenomenon for them to hear that last buzzer go off. End score of the game was 3-3 so there was 5 minutes of overtime.

Momma and Daddy to be at the shower before all the guests arrived.

Momma and Daddy with Nana (Susan Stephens)! She came all the way up four hours and back in one day to be at the shower.

We had so much fun this weekend and feel so incredibly blessed by the family and friends that we have surrounding us in life and in this transition into parenthood. For the first time reality of the magnificent yet daunting change that lies just a few weeks ahead hit me hard when I was saying goodbye to my sister and dad. The next time I see them we will have little Rex. Up until this point it has been no big change, just bearing with pregnancy (which besides the first trimester has been great). And now the reality of an actual baby that is part Paul and part me coming into the world is starting to sink in. It is weird having all this stuff for him, but not even knowing him yet.