Baby Shower and More!

Last weekend, some wonderful women from our church organized a lovely Double Baby Shower for me and my friend Stephanie! 

The whole shower was awesome, but some highlights included:
A diaper cake designed by the Bia ladies...

A delicious brunch...

 

 

Fun games, including "Smell the Diaper" (guessing which kind of Hershey's chocolate was melted into each diaper)...

Opening gifts (I had some great little helpers)...

Feeling so much support from my church family...

And organizing the nursery when I got home!  Here are some updated nursery pictures...

Besides my shower, it was a busy week because of the tennis district tournament in Albuquerque.  The weather was great and our players played very well; one of our girls' doubles teams even made it to the semifinals, so they will be going to the state tournament next week!

(Our car reached the big 100,000 mile mark on the way home from ABQ!)

Finally, here are some pictures from the Rehoboth Junior Senior Banquet last weekend.  Jonathan helped provide the musical ambiance during dinner and we enjoyed a nice meal with some of the other teachers and chaperones.  You can see from the pictures that Baby  just keeps getting bigger!  :)

It's just one month now until our due date.  We could be meeting Baby Newman sometime very soon!

"Nesting"

A few weeks ago I was suddenly struck by the urge to start cleaning out, setting up, and decorating the room that we will be using for Baby's nursery.  This urge was so sudden and strong, I found the best way that I could describe it was with the word "nesting".  Although the room has some ways to go, the first project I decided to tackle was to create a wall decoration that would fit with our nursery "theme" of sheep and lambs.  Here's what I came up with:

First, I drew two patterns: one for a playful lamb and one for a sleeping lamb.

I used the patterns to cut out the lamb outlines from an old white t-shirt.

Then I pinned, hand-stitched, stuffed, and embroidered the lambs, and I hung them up with some gender-neutral ribbons.

My next project: some little knitted lambs to hang from a mobile over the crib.  It's been such fun to have this creative outlet and a way to prepare for Baby during the third trimester wait! 

Knitted Lambs

In the meantime, we are also enjoying visits from my parents and my friend Genavee, and Jonathan is very busy coaching tennis.  Hopefully I will be able to blog about all that excitement sometime soon!