Shower Time

I was informed last weekend that people do in fact look at my blog & its time for me to start updating it! This baby is running my entire life and he's not even here yet. I've been so busy in the last couple of months preparing for his arrival and lots of pictures have been taken. I apologize for all the people looking at my blog that also have facebook because there might be duplicate pictures. I will try to post more of the story on my blog though.

These pictures are from the first baby shower I had. It was held on May 3 at Cody's Restaurant in Mattoon. My fellow nurses at the hospital put it on. Cody's is such a great place to eat but we unfortunately had the worst service ever. We "expressed" our concern to the manager and he took care of our entire bill. We were all shocked because that wasn't our intentions, but we thought our poor service needed to be recognized as a problem. This shower was wonderful because its always fun to hang out with coworkers outside of scrubs. Also, they got me a lot of great stuff!! Here are some pictures from the shower.

Me and my cake. Isn't it adorable? Nikki's aunt made it for the shower and it tasted just as great as it looks.

Katie and Natosha. All three of us girls have the exact same rotation at the hospital so we are "forced" to be friends. JUST KIDDING! Katie is an OB nurse and Natosha is a Pediatrics nurse. I love working with both of them because they are definitely entertaining girls.

This is Cassie and her baby Owen. Owen was born at 29 weeks back in October! Despite being born early, he has managed to have little health problems. Cassie has been a nurse for a long time and she used to be a workaholic, picking up shifts all over the place. All of that changed after baby Owen came into her life :)

Here is Susan and her children Jade and Lance. Lance was born in January. He was part of the baby boom on our unit of the hospital. (We had 9 nurses pregnant at the same time!) Everyone has delivered their babies but ME! Also, everyone seemed to have their babies early.... I have 9 days to go and I don't see this happening anytime soon. Guess I'm breaking the trend.

The last two pregnant ladies left. Nikki was due 10 days before me so it has been so interesting to swap pregnancy stories and complaints with her. She had a baby girl named Addison Claire on Monday May 25 at 6:34 PM. She weighed 8 lbs. 10 oz and is so beautiful. She looks a lot like her daddy Adam. I guess Nikki yelled several times during her labor that she couldn't wait to tell me just how bad this hurts and that its the worst pain I will ever experience. I believe she said it about 10 times! Glad she thought of me through her labor. Haha. She found out she was having a girl two weeks before I found out I was having a boy. The minute I told her I was having a boy she said our children will definitely have to date. Well, if my kid would just get here to meet Addison....

Group picture. Left to right.... Kathy, Cassie, Owen, Natosha, Katie. Kathy is a Pediatrics nurse. She has more energy than all of us combined. One of her worst habits is to follow all of her statements with "You know what I mean?" We give her so much grief about it. She has four children and she refers to her crazy life as taking care of her 50 million children. Good thing she has lots of energy because I don't know how she does it.

Terrible posture. I look exhausted in this picture too. But I had to post a pic of the guest of honor.