Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Family Weekend in Cincinnati

This past weekend Kyle and I went to Cincinnati to visit with friends and family!  Megan and Stephanie hosted a beautiful Baby Shower for Kensi and me on Saturday.  Gramma, Aunt Annie and Amy traveled from New York to celebrate Kensi and spend time with the family - especially Claire and little Caitlin!  Jim, Jill and Kelli also came to shower Kensi. My best friend, Susan traveled from D.C. to be there too! It was wonderful spending quality time with our family and close friends all weekend.

Meg found this really neat little painting shop to hold the baby shower - it was really fun because all of the guests created a month by month onsie or bib for Kensi!  Everyone brought out their creativity and the bibs and onsies turned out amazing! 

This was one of my favorite parts - all the guest made a wish for Kensi and put it in her piggy bank!


The amazing spread that was completely eaten! It was so yummy!

Cake pops!

  
I can't wait to hang the matching banner in Kensi's nursery

My LC looks so beautiful! 

Painting beautiful onsies

Claire and Gramma painted one together :)

Gigi and Aunt Kelli painting bibs

I love these two ladies! Thanks for coming BUD and Court!

Gramma's super cute onsie

Amy's onsie hahahaha

 
The Shuller ladies and their artwork

Opening gifts - monitor from Gramma, Aunt Annie, Aunt Jeanna, Aunt Joanne, Aunt Jeanette and Amy!

Growth chart from Aunt Megan, cousin Claire and cousin Caitlin
Matches the nursery perfectly!
  
Aunt Kelli!

My OSU best buds! 


My Sycamore Friends! So glad they were able to make it!

My beautiful (matching) hostesses!

 
I love my family! 

Isn't she just the cutest thing!?

Love all of these ladies! Thank you all so much for celebrating with me!

The final products!  Can you guess which one is Amy's? Or Claire's?
I can't wait to post blogs with Kensi wearing each one of these every month!


Some random pictures from the weekend;

We may have played Just Dance
  
And after major calculation (and cheating) Kyle WON a round!

Grandpa and Caitlin watching all the dancing

Great Gramma and Caitlin playing with her baby

Cait waving! 

Grandpa chasing and tickling Claire

We were able to celebrate Kyle's 28th birthday too!

Kelli made chocolate cake! Kyle's fave!

Claire and Aunt Annie on Claire and Caitlin's new bench from Uncle Steve 

They love their new bench!

We had a great weekend with our family in Ohio! Kyle and I are so grateful that we have such wonderful and loving family who traveled far to visit us and celebrate Kensi.  It was definitely a weekend we will never forget! This is the last time we will see any of our family before we are parents and our sweet Kensi comes into the world.  Seems pretty weird and crazy that Kensi will arrive in only 8 short weeks!!  Thank you Auntie Meg and Auntie Stephy for a beautiful and wonderful shower!

Monday, January 14, 2013

Kensi Lucille's Purple Shower!


This past weekend, my mom, Megan and youngest niece Caitlin came to visit!  I had two showers, so they were able to meet a lot of my friends and my work friends! It was really fun visiting with them and having them here being part of these exciting times for Kensi and me!


Kyle and our beautiful niece Caitlin


Beginning to crawl!

Saylor and Caitlin meeting for the first time! Saylor is a month older than Caitlin
Such beautiful little angels

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Jolynn and Sarah threw an amazing baby shower on Saturday.  A bunch of my friends were able to attend and we had such a fun time catching up, painting Kensi's blocks and eating amazing food!

My best friends and amazing hostesses!

Beautiful belly cake made by Lauren!

The wonderful spread

 Kensi's ABC blocks 

Playing Bingo! 

The belly ribbon game - Megan doubled the size her ribbon to measure my belly! Do I really look that huge? ;)


 Amazing quilt made my Grandma Lucy!


Purple bow and wrap from Jolynn for Kensi's newborn pics!


 
Kensi's Gramma (Marks) sure does love her
  
Playmat from Gramma Marks

The three preggos at the shower :)

Beautiful ladies - Allison, Lauren and Sarah


Erin and Me


 After numerous tries of using our brand new camera timer for a group picture.......



And we FINALLY got a good one!!!!
(All of my friends minus Erin, Jenny and Rachel that had already left)

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Chris and Amber hosted a work shower for me on Sunday evening. It was a Fusco's and we had a wonderful time eating, mingling and playing baby games. 
Thank you ladies for such a relaxing, calm and fun evening out!

Super cute baby cake made my Amber's sister in law!

The Marks' girls 

Chris and her 'bookends'

Beth and Bethany

Kensi's little Buckeye outfits! Can't wait to put her in these in the fall to cheer on the Buckeyes!

Becky and me

The Ladies of the night
Mom, Sue, June, Beth, Peyton, Becky, Megan and Caitlin
Amber, me and Chris