~The Southern Belle~: July 2012

~Baby Shower~

The church had a wonderful baby shower for Erin and I this Sunday. Erin is due 10 days after I am and it sure has been excited to go through this journey with her!

Little flowers on the table

Our poptastic way of saying thank you!

The best punch ever!

Kelly's famous cupcakes that I devoured!

Me 33 weeks and Erin 32 weeks.

My sweet girls!

Kelly and Tiffany, the lovely hostesses!

Sonogram picture frames from sweet Abigail.

Aylah laying in the floor with all the tissue paper.

Thanks for the wonderful shower.

We had a fabulous Luau party last week at our friend's house and Aylah was super excited to go. Mommy stayed home since I had been sick all weekend, but Mike and Aylah had a great time! Here are a few poses of my little hula girl.

~The Girls Together~

I haven't done much at all to change the rooms yet. I've just moved Grace's crib to Aylah's room. Now they both sleep in the same room, which is especially a big deal for Aylah, since she has slept in our room for a few years now. They have done really well, except for when Grace wakes up early, I try to run in there and get her before she wakes up Aylah. We have been so proud of Aylah for sleeping in her bed now. She's done great! Our routine has been to sit on Aylah's bed and read a book, pray together, tuck Aylah in, tuck Gracie in and then hopefully they both go to sleep. Grace loves being in there with her sister. She wants to sleep with Aylah so bad, but I'm definitely not ready for her to be out of a crib yet. Now I just need Gracie's bedding to match the room and we'll be good to go!

~Grace's Room~

Here is Grace's room. Grace sleeps so well and has slept through the night for a long time now. Our usually routine is to rock in the chair, read a book, pray together and then go to bed with her music and sound machine on. Grace usually lays right down in her special little corner of the bed. Then she gets a second wind and talks to herself for about an hour before finally falling asleep.

~Aylah's Room~

I've decided I need to slowly start changing a few things before baby boy joins us at home. So I wanted to take pictures of the girl's rooms before we switched it all up, so I could always remember what they looked like. Here is Aylah's room.

~Squirrel Verses the Apple~

The girls love to have picnics outside, but sometimes we are not very good at bringing our plates back in to the house. Because of this, we have a cute little visitor. Mr. Squirrel helps himself to the apples.

~At the Car Wash~

Aylah has been wanting to go through the car wash for quite some time now. This is one of the things she loves to do with Nanae. So, we decided to have our own little car wash. This is actually the first time this thing has been washed in a super long time!