Shower for Baby John

Clark has a new friend coming just around the corner! (literally) My sweet friend and neighbor, Emmalie, is expecting her first baby, John, next month. I had the privelege of hosting a shower for her with some other good friends.

Here is Em with her mom, Mary, and sister, Amy:

Emmalie with the hostesses (whoops==I handed off my camera before changing the setting!)
Em with Matt's mom and grandma
Opening some great gifts!

Since we knew Emmalie loves all things vintage (can you blame her?), we went with sort of a "county fair" theme.

mini candy apples!

mini corndogs!

we just had too much fun planning this shower

here are a couple of the vintage gifts she received. see the little scotty dog block? hee!

can't wait to meet you, baby john! welcome to the neighborhood!

Round Top

Well, another one of my favorite weekends has come and gone. Emily and I decided this year was definitely more about the sweet (and beautiful) place we stayed at (and of course the company) than necessarily buying stuff.

Some pics from our farmhouse:

Oops! Blogger is giving me fits tonight. Here's a sneak preview of one of my "happies" I found! :)
I loved the kitchen floors...

The house

We were greeted by rows and rows of these!

The dads had another agenda this year...

Emily and I pretending to be old fashioned friends rocking on our old front porch.

Mom and Nancy

Ready for our first day of shopping!! (Treasures at the bottom of the post)

After our long shopping day on Friday, we sat around the table and had a craft night. Not on purpose really, but Emily and I brought our sewing/knitting, and Amy brought her jewelry to work on. Stacy took one for the team! :) We had so much fun laughing at ourselves!

It was sooooooooo pretty! Saturday morning we woke up to this thick blanket of fog. So picturesque!

I look forward to this trip ALL year for many reasons (shopping of course--particularly antiquing, visiting with Emily, a weekend without taking care of babies, etc.), and it always goes by SO quickly! That I don't like.

Now for a quick snapshot of the treasures. Like I said, not many big purchases to speak of this go round, just odds and ends to make my house more of a "home". :)

Ask Emily about these old bingo tiles. She had so much fUn standing in the sun helping me search for numbers 1-31. :)

On the back of this painting, it's entitled, "Little Sister", and that's exactly who's room I put her in.

These are so cute! They are like paper dolls except they're cloth. AM has spent hours playing with them!

Couldn't leave without this darling book. (It's really two in one---you saw the other half earlier.) I have loved reading it to AnnMarie.

(ahem...Imagine this one ironed) :)

This egg cup is in the pattern of my everyday dishes (Spode, Pink Tower). Since it has been recently discontinued, I am always looking for unique pieces to add to my collection. I couldn't leave without this little guy!

What a fun trip! One of the highlights of my yEaR!

Thank you to my wonderful husband, Sean, and his sweet Grandmommy who took care of my "nest" for me so I could go have some fun! xxooo!!

The Countdown is on

The eagle has landed. That's right, the costume arrived.

Anybody think this little number will come off AT ALL before the recital gets here?

Nope, me neither.

9 month old baby boy

Sigh. I feel like I'm beginning alot of my posts with, "sigh". But it's the truth.

Clarky is nine months old. How thankful I am for a healthy angel baby! What an enormous blessing he is to our family. But, I do lament that his first year is coming to a close because he has been such a great baby, and I have truly enjoyed every moment!! I don't want these baby days to end!

This month has been full of so many fun times and has been a very monumental one for the Clarkster. He has gone from just sitting to crawling, sitting up on his own, and pulling up. All in one month! He just changed so much.

Some of our happenings in Clark's words:

I had my first playgroup. Here I am with my buddies, Cullen and Liam. Mommy loves them to pieces too and says she thinks we could be brothers.

I guess you could say I've been the mascot? for my cheerleader sister.
I've found my tongue. It's awesome.
I remain too cute for words.
I am climbing eVeRyWhErE..................

I had my first Shipley's kolache.......aaaaaaaaahhhh yum. I chowed it.

This picture is for Mrs. Wendi. Thank you! :)

iphone pic--sorry. I played with my other playgroup buddies!

I enjoyed the swing for the first time!

I rode in the wagon for the first time with cuz, Brooks.

I was a darling angel on Easter.

I rode on G&P's swing for the first time! I loooooooved it!

But, the only bad part about my month was that I got my second ear infection. Boo. I had the worst fever I've ever had. Mommy secretly liked it though because she got to rock me all day.

Mommy made me pose AGAIN. I delivered.

and I'm still happy as a clam.

stats:

25 lbs

29 inches

great sleeper

even better napper (still takin 3 a day)

four (6 oz) bottles a day, jar of baby food each meal, with more and more table food

*I heart buttered toast for breakfast.