Our Baby Shower

I unintentionally took a break from the blog...sorry guys! It's hard to keep up now that I'm back to work in person full time. Adding in my commute time now, trying to get the nursery put together, and just keeping up with general chores around the house in my third trimester, I've been completely exhausted. 

Today I wanted to share our baby shower which was a few weeks back. We decided to do a drive-by shower so anyone who didn't want to stay. It was very low pressure and just in our front yard. My mom did an amazing job planning, she had cupcakes delivered and a Del's truck parked in the driveway. It was so nice to have so many people we love stop by and wish us well! I was completely exhausted by the end and my feet were super swollen. 

Basically, I'm going to do a major photo dump of the shower so enjoy!!

Sophie and Rory attended the shower and did so great! It was a really hot day, but they were troopers and slept so well that night and the whole next day.

Our attempts at a family picture didn't go really well, but that's okay!

My mom did such an amazing job planning the shower and hosting! 

Ally tagged this picture of us on instagram, I look so tired! 

My dad even stopped by for awhile, I think he is excited for his first human grand baby!

My in-laws also came and stayed awhile! It was so nice that they came by!

My uncle, his girlfriend, and cousins came from Connecticut to celebrate Ellie.

A picture of the set up along the road. We are lucky we have a big front yard. 

The cute sign my mom ordered and the table in the background. 

Sitting with the dogs before guests started to arrive. 

Another family photo attempt. 

It's hard to believe that these three girls were the flower girls at our wedding, and Tyler wasn't even born yet! (Pictures from our ceremony can be found here) They all seem so big now! 

My mom bought beach balls for all the kids to play with and they had a great time chasing them around the yard. 

Some of the cupcakes my mom had delivered. I never even ate one....

My mom truly went overboard. From the goody bags to the guessing game to the hand sanitizer favors, she had so much set up!

If you aren't sure what Dels is, it's a Rhode Island thing! It's frozen lemonade and delicious but guess what, I never even had one! Luckily our guests seemed to enjoy them!

My mom took guesses on when Ellie would be born and sent me the document, it'll be interesting to see who wins! There were a lot of early September guesses but some major outliers as well. My cousin guessed September 25th.... 22 days late! I am already feeling rather uncomfortable so I can't imagine if I was forced to stay pregnant that long. 

I'm so glad that my uncles girlfriend Liz snapped all these pictures of my mom setting up and how the tables looked. 

Alcohol in case anyone wanted to add it to their Dels. 

Rachel and Ant came and I always wish that we had more time to hang out with them!

My mom invited a bunch of her friends and it was so nice that they all stopped by!

Rachel and Brittni who have handed down so many items to us from their kids! It has been such a lifesaver.

We were so lucky to have so many people stop by and hang out with us. 

Derek and Ally are excited to be Uncle Derek and Auntie Ally!

Tim's mom and brother Dan hanging out.

It was so nice to see Marissa! We don't see Marissa and Fred that often so it was great to hang out with them!

Tim's dad and Fred.

The baby daddy himself :)

Callan and Kason, the oldest of the cousins! They have been the only ones for so long, but already gained one cousin this year and soon Ellie will be here too!

My uncle Dave and his fiancé Liz!

It was such a nice shower, and there were a ton of people who dropped by that we didn't get pictures of. I think the only pictures that I took were of the dogs....all the rest were stolen from my mom :)

I didn't take pictures of all the gifts we received but once the nursery is complete I will do a full nursery tour post and share what we received. 

Have a great day everyone!

Minion Madness- A Night At A Villain Halloween Party!

Guys, we had the best time being minions for Halloween!

Also I took some pictures after I finished my makeup and I feel like such goober sharing them but I really want to tell you about all the makeup that I love!

See? Such a goober! Anyways here's what I put on to create this look
Foundation: Marcelle BB Cream
Bronzer: NYC Sunny
Blush: Nars Orgasm
Highlighter: Milk
Eyeshadow: Busted from Naked2 Palette
Eyeliner: Marc Jacobs Pencil
Mascara Primer: Diorshow
Mascara: Benefit Rollerlash
Lipstick: Stila in Patina

Normally I can't bring myself to wear lipstick all night but I had no problem with this one! I really liked it and the darker color really brought the whole look together.

Once we were ready it was time to make the hour drive to Megan's house!

We made a point both last year and this year to not mention our costumes before arriving at the party. It just makes it more fun that way! That way everyone is surprised when they see you walk in and you get the nice surprise of seeing what everyone else is dressed as too.

So we were super surprised to see Megan's parents...

We were so excited to see that they were dressed as our villains! We thought our costumes were pretty creative since we weren't actually villains, we just work for them. It was fun to find other people who fit in with us.

Our costumes were super comfortable and pretty easy to assemble. Tim's overalls were easier to find then mine, he ordered them from Target.com while I managed to find mine on clearance at Old Navy. Tim picked up his yellow sweatshirt at Macy's (literally the ONLY yellow thing we could find for men! Apparently guys do not wear yellow...) I bought my yellow shirt at Target. We picked up both our hats at Old Navy. The minion goggles Tim also ordered from Target. Our shoes are just black ones we had laying around. (Mine are hip hop sneakers and Tim used some black dress shoes)

Although now we have some clothing pieces we may never wear again (Hello, overalls), it was fully worth it to put together comfortable costumes that we were able to enjoy being in all night.

Laura and Megan were two out of the three Sanderson sisters from Hocus Pocus. Their third got called into work, but they were super cute anyways! It is so nice to be back with my college roommates and see them. We aren't able to see each other as much as I would like but when we do we always have fun!

Megan's sister Kelsey has always been a part of our group since we saw her quite often being at schools near each other. It's always fun to see her as well! She was dressed up as Mr Smee and her boyfriend was Captain Hook.

Megan's mom always makes a ridiculous amount of food and all of it is so delicious! She always has a creative display for it too which makes me wish I took pictures of everything. Besides the food, we did a lot of dancing and chatting and ended up staying until almost midnight (which these days is pretty late for us!)

I love this picture that Megan took of us and I think it will be finding a home soon on our gallery wall!

Our plans for tonight are pretty tame but we definitely got all our Halloween out this weekend! I'd love to know what you were/are for Halloween this year!

An A-Team Christmas Party

Tonight was the second annual A-Team Christmas party!

(Almost) Every Wednesday I play trivia at a local bar, Wood River Inn with friends and we go by the name the A-Team. We actually do pretty well and win quite a bit which is fun. There are six of us on the team and last year we all exchanged gifts, but of course that gets pretty pricey. This year we decided to do secret santa and it was a ton of fun!

We watched some football and ate before exchanging gifts. Funny enough, it was all back and forth.

I had Brittni, Brittni had me.

Blythe had Jenna. Jenna had Blythe.

Stephen had Amy. Amy had Stephen.

Weird how it ended up like that!

Anyways, my present to Brit hasn't exactly arrived yet, so she will get it handed to her at work this week.

Thanks to Julie over at Peanut Butter Fingers, I discovered this awesome shirt! Brit is giving birth to her first daughter Emma at the beginning of February and I thought this was a hilarious shirt from ThugLifeShirts.com. I also gave her the cutest, fluffiest ornament from Pier 1. 

How cute is he?!

I absolutely loved my gifts from Brittni. She knows me so well and got me things that I will use and love!

This Patriots ugly sweater t-shirt is awesome! I have been talking about wanting a Patriots ugly sweater for some time but they are super expensive so this t-shirt is perfect! She purchased it on chowdaheadz.com which I've been browsing around seems like an awesome website to buy gifts on for any Boston sports fans!

Brit also got me a candle from Bath and Body Works called Dashing Through The Snow.  I have to say that although it is not a scent I would've picked out at the store for myself- I'm absolutely loving it. I'm burning it right now in sync with my Diamond Candle in gingerbread and the scents are so complimentary to each other! The scent description is green balsam, wintry musk, and the jingle of sparkling citrus. It definitely gives off that Christmas pine tree scent that I miss when we have an artificial tree!

After exchanging gifts we played a few rounds of Heads Up which is the super awesome Ellen Degeneres game. Amy pulled it up on her phone and we had fun seeing how good everyones acting skills were as we attempted to act out each word that popped up!

I hope you had an amazing weekend and if you attended any Christmas parties you had a great time. Have a great week and get excited...we are almost to Christmas!

A Happy 79th Birthday!

This was pretty much a lazy weekend all around. I spent Saturday working on an organization project and watching Harry Potter weekend on ABC Family. I am still, after all of these years obsessed with the Harry Potter movies and books...I know so lame, but I'm sure there are plenty of us out there!

Sunday morning was spent surfing blogs and watching the last two Harry Potter movies to round out the weekend. Then it was party time....

For my Papa's 79th Birthday we invited the whole family over for a little party. Annabel and Uncle Craig enjoyed swimming in the pool, but since it was so cloudy no one else opted to jump in. Cailean probably would have gone in as well, but he is currently visiting his other set of grandparents right now.

Dan and his girlfriend Nikki even hung around with us which was nice.

My Papa, his girlfriend Vivian, my Uncle Dave and his girlfriend Jana also joined us for our party. It was great to see everyone but especially nice to catch up with Jana, we haven't seen her in years and she keeps my Uncle Dave on his toes!

For dinner we had spinach lasagna, bakery pizza, barbeque chicken, corn on the cob, and pasta salad. I took a little bit of everything and my eyes were WAY bigger then my stomach. I was glad I didn't also take the salad and beans that were also out.

Annabel picked out my Papa's cake, but I was so full by the time dessert came around that I didn't even have a slice. We also had mini Friendlys ice cream sundaes and also brownies which I'm sure I will be snacking on for the coming days.

It was a great party and I was so happy to be able to spend time with some of our closest family members. My mom, Vivian, Papa and I had a great time talking about our upcoming trip to France! We will be going in September so it is just over a month away! =)

Well I'm off to start my week! I hope everyone else had a fantastic weekend, whether it was resting or busy!