Showered with Love

Last weekend Darrell and I traveled up to Minneapolis for a baby shower with a group of my girlfriends from high school. Even though it's been almost ten years since graduation, nine of us girls still keep in touch regularly and get together whenever we can. And of course, babies are a perfect excuse to get together. In fact, of the nine of us, four of us are expecting kids during this calendar year.

Unfortunately, not everyone could be at the shower because we've dispersed to many different states (and in one case, to London), but we used Skype to get as many people involved as we could. It was so much fun to catch up with everyone who could be a part of the shower, and having these girls in my life even after so many years (and across so many miles) is such a blessing. Love them!

Amy, who is next to me, is also expecting--due in July!

Aside from getting to see everyone and catch up (and of course having BOB get loved on and spoiled), the highlight of the shower was definitely the cake. My friend Whitney (front row, blueish cardigan) made an incredible cake. Everything was made from scratch, including the fondant.

Seriously awesome. Even the elephant is made from fondant! And on the inside was a chocolate cake with raspberry buttercream and raspberry filling... I'm hungry again just thinking about it. Even Darrell, whose only request when we were selecting our wedding cake was that it didn't have fondant, agreed that the cake was delicious. Apparently making the fondant from scratch makes it infinitely better (of course, that is pretty much true about anything).

In other good news from the weekend, BOB was very well behaved during the car trip. Granted, we had to make more bathroom stops than usual, but I didn't have any issues with cramping or discomfort. Not too shabby for eight hours in the car at thirty-four weeks pregnant. Hopefully he continues to be this well-behaved out of the womb--we're hoping to make a trip to Iowa in the middle of May and have tickets booked to fly out to North Carolina in June. Fingers crossed!