Chatty Shower Weekend

Last weekend was so much fun. I didn't sleep for the two nights before the weekend started, due to sheer excitement and anticipation. Our sweet, sweet friends here threw a brunch/shower for us and the babe. My whole family came, Carson's whole family came, and two of my college bffs and their husbands came from out of town. We felt very loved the whole weekend.

Check out the spread. It was delicious!

Po'mosas and Mimosas!

Love the awkward "before" shots.

Royal fam.

Smorgasbord of gifts!!

Lauren quilted this for him. Can you believe it? These Royal women make me look bad:)

They decorated with baby pictures of us. Don't you think that top left photo of Carson is kinda scary? yikes...

I think he looks adorable in this one on the right though.

Our sweet friends who hosted it for us. They are too good to us.

Pyles fam.

Carson and Andrew introduced Maggie and Wells. Carson was hoping they would spoon or something so I think he was a little disappointed. There's always next time, right?

That afternoon, we borrowed our neighbor's kayak and canoe and went to the park.

Jack was the burger man for a cookout at our house that night.

You know Ed. Never met a stranger. He told me he thinks he met approximately 70% of the people at the shower:)

The grill caught on fire at the end of the night. Ed to the rescue.

Dreams

I could tell you some pretty crazy ones I've had these past nine months. I'll spare you though. Last night, I did dream that our baby was a little mini-version of little Carson. Kinda scary:) And he kept begging me to put him in the dishwasher. So, I did. Woke up a little confused.

I had my 37 week appt yesterday and since I'm not progressing much, the doc wanted to schedule an induction. Unless I go into labor in the next 2 weeks, we will go in for me to be induced on June 16th at 4am. Only 13 days left!!!!!!! We are so pumped...

Here I am at 37 weeks...

Macon Baby Shower

I feel full. Not just because I have a big baby inside and eat pizza like it's going out of style. My heart feels full too. With yesterday being Mother's Day and all, Carson and I went to the pool and swam and talked for awhile. (Yes... I was wearing a HOT maternity bathing suit:) It was a good day. A day of reflection. I was thinking back to last Mother's Day and how it was a hard day for me. A hard day for both of us. Lots of doubts and questioning. Well, since then God has revealed himself to us in so many ways. He has shown us that he is faithful to us, even when we don't and can't have a child. And yesterday he reminded me that I am so blessed. Blessed to have a son who is almost here, and blessed to have Jesus, who never leaves me. He is enough. He is enough. And he is faithful. I have had to preach that to my unbelieving heart so many times this past year. But, I felt so full on Mother's Day this year. Full with gratitude for Jesus, who is faithful.

A few weeks ago, my sweet high school friends threw me a baby shower in Macon. It was such a picture of God's faithfulness again. Having them, along with other family and friends, love on us was so overwhelming. It was a very fun day.

Maggie and Mia

My bff's from high school. Their moms hosted the shower with them, but I failed to get a picture with everybody. Oooops.

The softest blanket ever that Granny made for him!

Royal girls

Pyles girls minus Mom.

My favorite girl in the world.

That night, there was a cookout/shower for Austin and Anna Caroline at my parents' house. We are missing Stevie in the pic though.