Baby Showers!

Baby Burks is blessed to have so many wonderful people in her life and she isn't even here yet! I hope she knows how lucky she is! She had two more baby showers this past week! On Wednesday, May 12th Kat that I work with at the quilt shop organized a baby shower there for co-workers and on Saturday, May 15th we had a co-ed shower at Avanti's hosted by Brittany and my mom. Both were a great time! It is hard to get pictures when the shower is for you, but here are a few decent ones that I managed to get. Brittany took the ones at the shower at the quilt shop!

Some of the fabulous ladies I work with and the table decor!

Some more of my awesome co-workers!

The grandma's to be enjoying the party! Brittany was also there but was behind the camera. Sneaky!

The yummy ice cream cake that Peggy M. brought to the shower. I was even able to eat a piece and it tasted amazing! Can't wait to be able to eat sweets again!

The cool "diaper cake" that Pam made for the baby! Instead of diapers she used hooded towels, receiving blankets, washcloths, and a swaddle me. It is still somewhat put together on the baby's dresser because I think it is too cool to take apart!

Okay now onto the couples shower....Devin was a little unsure about having a couples shower, but he enjoyed it! The reason behind it is that we are good friends with both men and women and we didn't think it was fair to exclude the single men. I think most the men were a little scared to go, but we promised no lame games and fed them pizza and beer so they were pretty happy!

The cake table. Our friend Shawnae made the awesome cake and used the book "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" as her inspiration.

Close up of the cake. The front said Baby Burks and the back said ABC 123. The top layer was fun fetti cake and the bottom was chocolate! Thanks again Shawnae! You rock!

So we may have lied to the guys, there was only one game and it involved beer so we figured they wouldn't object and they didn't! Devin was able to get six of our friends to participate. They had to chug 6oz of beer using a baby bottle! Of course they couldn't take the lids off, they had to suck it through the nipple. It took quite a while. The participants from left to right are: Mark, Cory, Maurice, Karneboge, DeJaynes, and Patrick.

Go boys go!

Annnnnnnnnnnd the old man of the group Cory is out. He couldn't handle the pressure. Mark also gave up after a bit, when he realized everyone was beating him.

Mark applauding the three winners, Maurice, Patrick and DeJaynes as they choose their prize: a six pack of beer!

When the shower was over Mike and Stacy were nice enough to load their car with the gifts and bring them over to our house.

This is what her room looked like after they unloaded. Everything in the corner was already there from the other showers, but the rest was all new gifts.

This is what her closet looks like before unloading the stuff from the couples shower...I think shes already pretty spoiled!

Also after the shower my mom helped my grandma bring over the cradle. This cradle has been in my family since my brother was born in 1983. My grandparents had it made by a family friend. The babies that have been in this cradle include my brother, me, my cousin Greg, and my second cousins, Chloe, Kelsie, and Carleigh which makes Baby Burks will be the seventh baby to use the cradle! I went with my grandparents and my mom to pick out the cradle bedding on Friday, it is a really pretty white bedding set. My grandma got us some receiving blankets, sheets, and two outfits to match.

The plaque on the cradle that tells who it is from.

There are plaques for each baby that uses the cradle. These are the ones for my brother and I.

I can't wait to move the cradle into our room! I just need to clean our room and do a little rearranging so it can fit. It is so neat to have a family tradition like this! I hope that the cradle is usable when I have grandkids! It is in great shape so it should be!

That is all I have for today. I meant for this post to be shorter, but at least it has alot of pictures. I will try to update again sometime this week. I have my sono tomorrow and the chair for the baby's room gets delivered on Wednesday! If you didn't check out my post below from yesterday, you may want to it updates everyone on what is going on medically with me.

Thanks for checking in!