A Baby Shower and a Birthday

This past weekend I celebrated two things. The upcoming birth of my little Victoria as well as my 26th birthday. (Although, my birthday doesn't actually take place for another week, I wanted to have it early enough so that a special friend who is also expecting - any time now - would be able to attend both my shower and my birthday)

And I have to say, I LOVE that I have such fantastic people in my life and I'm very glad that they could all be there with me during this time of celebration.

<3





 My good friend Caroline and her husband (Who made us sliders for dinner - SO GOOD!) hosted the baby shower at their house.

There was a huge spread of fruits, some delicious dip that Caroline made - seriously, it was AMAZING! Crackers and cheese, drinks, salad and Jesses yummy sliders.

After we ate dinner, we had some phenominal cupcakes, which are pictured above, that Caroline had bought for the occasion. I have to admit, that I had one of each. My favourite by far were the ones with the pink icing though. Made with REAL raspberries. You can't get any better than that, can you?

 I'm drooling right now just thinking about it and I'm thinking of heading to the fridge so I can go devour the last one!

We all decorated 0-3 month and 3-6 month onesies with fabric paints, and for the first few minutes, we all sat there looking blankly at these white onesies and had no idea what the heck we were going to do with them. Solution? We tossed on some music and that really got things rolling. And soon, we had adorable customized little onsies that Victoria could rock no problem. Caroline made a sweet one with a butterfly with my little ones name across it, Sophie created a clever little onesie with a turtle on the front that says, "I'm turtley cute" below, and Hayley made a cute design with a little giraffe peaking his

 head out from behind a big letter 'V'. (She'd wanted to do a giraffe tail on the back, but we didn't have enough time to let the paint dry for her to turn it over and get that done before we ended the night... still SUPER cute!)

And while all of my friends were putting the finishing touches on their masterpieces, I was still going at it, working on mine, which was almost done, but I couldn't figure out what was missing. I sat there dabbing away with my little paints and thought about it and finally came up with an idea!

I ended up writing 'I <3 My Gma + My Farfar' Farfar, for those of you who don't know, means 'Fathers Father (or grandpa) in Danish.



My dedication to Gma and Farfar <3

Satisfied that I was done, we could carry on with the night... well, that and it's awkward when you are the last one doing something when everyone has wrapped it up and are sitting there waiting for you.Although, my friends are really great, I don't think they would have minded just chatting while I was sitting there with my paints, tongue sticking out the corner of my mouth with a look of concentration on my face...




Erm... This isn't contagious, is it? Is there something in the water?

The rest of the evening we chatted, and I *swear* when you get any of us together, we can just gab for hours. I could get a text from someone asking when I might be available to hang out and I'll say something like, "Oh, I'm just finishing up with a friend (or friends) I'll text you when I'm on my way." and then even though we might expect to be done quite shortly, we end up talking for another hour or so. I've learned not to give a time limit when I hang out with my girlfriends, because I don't want our visits to feel rushed when we really get into it and I don't want to make a promise to be somewhere a certain time when I might not be able to make it on time. I'm anal about punctuality.

 The picture to the left is my favourite picture of the evening, because it's the first picture of all four of us since I met these FANTASTIC women a year ago. Okay, well, there was one taken the night we met, but it was on someone else's camera and I haven't been able to get a copy of it. I was DESPERATE to get a picture of all four of us together, expecially since one of my dear friends is moving away soon.

In the year that I have known these absolutely phenominal women, I've grown to like and love each one of them. And even though I might not get to see them NEARLY as much as I'd like to sometimes, I realize we all have our own individual lives and we each get busy.

That being said, I know that if any of us EVER need each other, we will be there at the drop of a hat for support, let each other vent, a hug or a shoulder to try on. I am unbelievably grateful to have found such good friends so shortly after I'd moved here just a little over a year ago.

Every time I come home from hanging out with one of my girlfriends, I find I like something new about them each time.

 Shall we get back to the main plot? I went off on a little tangent there, didn't I? I received some very thoughtful, some very cute and some very practical gifts.

And I have to say, since this time it was different, I usually feel awkward and strange when it comes to opening gifts in front of a group of people - and I can't explain it. Sometimes I just want to open the gifts when everyone is sucked into conversation, so that nobody notices.

 This time however, I didn't feel awkward or strange at all, which was really nice for a
 change. Really, really nice.

At the end of the night, while we were all still sitting on the couches, I went and grabbed my "Thank-you for coming" gifts and Carolines Hostess gift. We joke that I'm almost incapable of being invited somewhere (even my own baby shower) without bringing something for everyone else. I'd made some body scrubs and put them into containers. I made a Lemon Salt Body Scrub, a Lavender Sugar Body Scrub and a Coffee Peppermint Vanilla Sugar Body Scrub. (The last one smells SO GOOD - I seriously just want to eat it every time I smell it.)

The next day we celebrated my 26th birthday at Pizza Hut.

Pizza, cupcakes, good company and LOTS of laughter. I'm sure a few tears were shed.

Oh, and we got another picture of the four of us together. Now I have a small little project that has to get underway here pretty quickly in order to be done on time!

 

 

I hope that you had an awesome weekend and that you spent it doing what you wanted to be doing and with those you love and wanted to spend time with. Let me know what you got up to.