Surprise Baby Shower

On Tuesday our small group surprised us with a baby shower. Faith had the flu so we almost stayed home! But, Jeremy convinced me I should at least go and take the opportunity to get out of the house, and he would take care of the girls. (I figured he was in on the surprise-but he wasn't he was just being a great husband) Emily made this super cute cake of a baby. I will have to add a picture later since I didn't come prepared with my camera. It was a diaper shower so we got lots of diapers for the baby. Which is such a blessing on our tight budget! I brought home one of the wrapped boxes so the girls could open it up the next morning since they missed the party.

One of the couples got us a gift card for Wal-Mart. I was super excited about this because I was having a mommy dilemma. With Grace we had all sorts of cute outfits from her showers. Then with Faith I took Grace on a special shopping trip to buy an outfit for Faith to wear at the hospital. It was something fun we did together to prepare for her arrival. I wanted to do that again, but was having trouble justifying the expense. We didn't really need a new outfit, but a part of me wanted to continue this fun event and for the baby to have its own special outfit. The gift card was a great solution. I took the girls this week and they had lots of fun picking out a girl and boy outfit. We also choose some "boy" hats since we didn't have anything like that. I explained to the girls that we would return which ever outfit we didn't need. It was so hilarious. Grace kept saying, "Yeah, but we will keep the girl one mom." She is very determined this baby will be another sister. She says, "Mom, we love girls at our house." I continue to assure her we will love a baby boy or girl. We will see...