Blessed...

This past saturday was my brother-in-laws baby shower. They are having twins! A boy and a girl. It rained on there baby shower, just like it did on mine. Oh well, what can you do. I can't beleive that they are having twins, I am soooo thankful I only had one!! I can't imagien 2 babies at once. Crazy. I made them a diaper cake and the favors.I was running so behind on saturday that I didn't get a chance to take a picture of the favors with the candy and everything :( I am mega bummed. I love to save those moments. But I do have pictures of the diaper cake.


This was the whole cake.... Because it was twins I did one side boy, the other girl.



This was the top. My plan was to do something boy/girl like teddy bears or something but I ran out of room so just used some wash clothes that I had bought for them.



This is a picture of the first tier. Underneath the cake I did recieving blankets and then bordered the bottom with bows and socks. I alternated boy and girl socks. I wanted to keep the ribbons neutral so green and yellow it was!!




I had so much fun making the cake. My friend Sam came over and helped me.

Yesterday we went to the Old Port Festival. We went with another couple and there 3 week old daughter, Carmella. It was a lot of fun, although we underestiamted all of the people. It was hot and crowded and pushing the carriages through all that all was asking too much. The babies did well. Carmella slept and Camden enjoyed watching all the people waking by. He's a people person. There was some good "festival food" and loud music which is right up Seth and I's alley, but for the babes it was alittle much. We stayed long enough to walk around and get some food. With gas prices it was probably a waste, but we had fun got of the house and got some sun! What more could we have asked for?
Camden 7th tooth popped out yesterday!! I can't believe how fast he is growing. It seems like only yesterday I was bitching about being pregnant and now here he is a bouncy happy healthy 7th month old boy. Just waiting for the world and ready to discover whatever may come his way. I can't believe its been 7 months. I sometimes miss his newborn days. But then again I am excited that we can actually play together now and watching the world through a child's eyes is priceless. The look on his face when he is discovering something is amazing. I'll have to get that on camera-just to share how his eyes light up. He is the greatest gift. Childern are the greatest gift! I can't imagien him not being in my life. Seth wants to wait a long time before we have another one but I wouldn't mind one in 4 or 5 years. I am sure by then I will def. be missing the baby days and being pregnant. We'll see. Speaking of being pregnant...for our screen saver we have a picture slide-show that uses all the pictures that are in Kodak EasyShare...so a picture of me the day before I delivered popped up. Oh my god!!!Soooo glad that's not me anymore. Here it is..please don't laugh.

I was huge, exhausted, bloated, swollen, leaking amitioc fluid, and had a 7 pound baby hanging off me...I was a b-i-t-c-h. Needless to say nobody really said much to me. I will have to talk about my labor and birth story another time. I just know Camden has a wonderful guardian angel watching over him and I feel so lucky that we both survived. I think that I am going to get a cross tattooed on me just to show how grateful I am that I have faith and that we both survived. I really didn't pray before I had him and I did a little bit when I was pregnant but I pray now. I beleive that something ..whatever it might have been....came and helped Camden through that process and myself and let us both be safe and sound!!! Whenever I get mad or ungrateful I remind myself that I have a healthy baby and honestly, nothing is better or more reassuring then that! Last night Camden woke me up at 1:00 A.M. and wanted to play....lovely. Sometimes I wish babies had an off switch! But as I lay there with him for 2 hours...I had time to think and I realized how lucky I really am. I have the most beautiful perfect son in the whole wide world. He is smart and charming and HEALTHY and just perfect. I have a great husband who although pushes my buttons alittle more then he should, stands by my side and supports me. He is my best friend. I have the greatest family. They are supportive and loving and we still get together all the time to have dinner or lunch...and I know that they will always be here for me. What an amazing feeling knowing that we will always be here for eachother. I just feel blessed.....
One last thing before I go, I started this post with "stress, stress, stress" and just changed the heading to "blessed". Doing my gratuide list made me grateful. It's amazing how counting your blessing can eraese the stress!!!!
Have a GRATEFUL monday:-D