Baby Shower

My mom, sister and niece were in town last week, so we planned a family shower with a few close friends. I had such a good time with everyone - it's like your wedding or another family get together where you want to talk to everyone, but only have time to have short conversations with everyone, so kind of frustrating but in a good way. Does that even make sense? :)

My friends put together a beautiful shower - we had my favorite meal of the day - dessert! I have more pictures on my camera, but here is one my mom sent of me with Karry.

We got a few little girl outfits, and one little boy outfit - sorry Emily Jensen - that is definitely a boy outfit :). And no gift receipts! These are confident people giving out their predictions, I guess. I think I almost started crying when I saw the little pair of white Keds that Shelly gave me - so tiny! I love shoes - it is going to be hard to not buy a ton of little baby footwear!

It is starting to feel more real - with a room full of baby gear and diapers.... so crazy!

Baby Hiller - comin' early?

So, at my ultrasound last week, the doctor said that the baby is about 10 days ahead of schedule in terms of size and development... based on measurements (of the head, I think ) they estimate that the baby is already 4 pounds... yikes! I have more than 8 weeks to go, and that's a lot of growing time left. So, if this keeps up, he said they would consider inducing me 10 days early... or September 10th.

I think that might not be such a bad idea... that would satisfy the planner in me since I would know the date I'd go to the hospital, and it would be easier to make arrangements with work. We'll see. I have a bit of time still ahead of me, and maybe our gigantic baby will slow down a bit :)

We are headed out to the Hiller Family Reunion on Monday, but before that we have a wedding party for my friend Stephanie out in LA. I have known her since first grade, and am so excited to go see her! We will have quite a bit of traveling ahead of us though - as soon as we get back from LA we leave for South Dakota. But, I'm excited to do these trips while it's just me and Matt. Pretty soon it will be much more difficult to just pack up and leave.

So, today from my downtown Las Vegas office building, I watched from the 10th floor as the line outside the courthouse grew longer and longer... it was 115+ degrees outside today, but every crazy couple who wants to get married in Vegas on 07/07/07 was in that line waiting to get a marriage license. People are nuts! I wish I had my camera with me to capture the line - it snaked all the way down the sidewalk - about a city block - and back again. A few entrepreneurial ice cream trucks stopped to sell treats and gatorade to those in line.

Vegas is going to be crazy this weekend - people are going to the casinos in droves since it's supposed to be the luckiest day of the century - all 7s!

I am going to stay home next to my portable fans and try my luck at painting stripes on the baby's room... not as glamorous, but way more cool!