Fall in Love with Baby Kipfer

My cousin hosted a baby shower for me this weekend for everyone who lived in Southern Indiana and most of my family. It was beautifully done. Because it was in October, she had the idea of having the theme be "Fall in Love with Baby Kipfer". It was fall themed with apple cider and fall colors and stuff like that. It was great!! Julia made such amazing food! A pregnant woman's dream come true! Haha. A lot of people were there. We all just barely fit into her cute little house, but we did. The shower started off with mingling and socializing. Time for everyone to get to know each other. There were a lot of people from different sides of my family that didn't know each other. And Janean had only met a few people before the shower, so it was a great time for her to meet some other people in the family too. After that we ate all the delicious food. Some of the best food I've eaten in a long time. Then we played some games. The first one we played was a questionnaire about Drew and I as babies. My answer sheet didn't count (neither did the two grandma's answer sheets. that probably wouldn't have been fair), but if mine had I totally would have won. I only missed one question out of all 18. It was hilarious!! The next game we played was a baby food guessing game. My aunts, Pam and Debbie, volunteered with my cousin's girlfriend, Amanda, and one of my family friends, Maria. They were pretty brave souls. I got to feed them baby food!! It was hilarious watching their reaction to the taste and smell. I fed them things like carrots, apples and cherries, chicken noodle dinner, and butternut squash. I loved it!! Haha. After that I opened presents. We got a TON of blankets...that was kind of the joke of the shower was the crazy number of blankets that we got! The shower was so much fun though. I loved having everyone all there to celebrate our little one.

I wanted to say thank you for all the gifts and for everyone who came to the shower. It was so much fun and I loved having everyone there together. It was great having everyone meet each other and share some time together. I also really want to thank my cousin, Julia, for hosting such an amazing shower. Her devotion at the beginning of the shower was a great insight into living my life as a mother through God and His word. I really loved it.

Thank you for all of your prayers and thoughts. It is all very much appreciated.

man! she likes to move!

i have discovered just how much she loves to move. the other night i just laid in bed and watched her roll and kick and punch. it was probably the greatest feeling in the entire world...well at least until she gets here and then i'm sure i will have a million more great feelings. but watching her move was pretty great for right now. so watching her move and roll around is by far my new favorite pastime. it definitely blows rugby and cycling out of the water!! she definitely LOVES to move around. i can definitely see her constantly being on the move whenever she gets here. it makes me really curious to see if she'll be interested in dancing or sports or what will make her happy. but i'm that it'll be probably be something where she'll constantly be on the move.

all of her movements and just all of the stuff she does absolutely amazes me. i can't even begin to describe the feelings that i get whenever i watch her move around in there. she really is one of God's little miracles and i am so grateful to be blessed with the ability to carry such a beautiful little being. i love her so much (sorry drew, still love you, but i definitely love her in a very different way. can't help it. i'm the mom and i spend every day with her. haha).

all of your prayers and thoughts are greatly appreciated. thank you so much. we love all of you.