Dallas Baby Shower

My sweet friend, Ashly, threw me the most lovely Baby Shower this weekend at her home in Allen. It's hard to believe that she and I have been friends for almost 13 years! We met in English class at Richland College and she was my very first friend in Dallas.

(And you may not know from just looking at the picture, but Alyssa and Baby "M" as we call Ashly's baby girl are actually high fiving each other from the bellies! Ash is due at the end of December with her baby girl!) :)

My cousin, Natalie, and our good friend, Sheri, also helped with the festivities.

It was a wonderful and very sweet Baby Shower. The BEST part was getting to see so many of my sweet friends who I never get to see enough of! I miss my girls! :)

Alyssa & I received lots of wonderful gifts. As David puts it, the back of his mom's car "threw up pink", when he opened the trunk after the shower! :)

Andrea, Me and Jaime...I have been friends with these ladies for MANY years as well!

My friend, Chrissy, and her sweet baby girl, Ella...

Dave's mom, Kathy, and me

David's grandmother, Nanny, and me.

Natalie's daughter, Addison. I can't believe our princess will be dealing with bows and tutus and glittery shoes soon (what a CHANGE from Andrew's khaki shorts and t-shirts!) :)

The cake table. (Notice the letters hanging from the chandelier, Ashly made letters to spell out Alyssa....they are precious!)

The most DELICIOUS cake... YUMMY! (It had RASPBERRY filling...just like our wedding cake did!) : ) Extra Yummy! :)

Somehow they trusted me with the cake... lol...

Here's a shot that shows the belly a bit more!

Me and Ashly cutting the cake... the preggos were ready for cake :)

I was so glad that I had a baby shower. I had "hemmed and hawed" over it since I had always heard that you only have one baby shower. And while I understand "tradition", I was kind of bummed at the thought of not having one. More than anything, I wanted Alyssa to know how loved she was before she even arrived (and to be honest...I wanted DIAPERS & wipes! haha!) :)

I hated the thought of not having a shower for Alyssa to show her in the future (especially after the over-the-top showers her brother Andrew had!) Thankfully, Ashly encouraged me to register and to get prepared for this baby girl. I had completely forgotten what all a newborn requires and even more so - I had NO clue what all a baby GIRL requires! :)

Now - we are just pretty much waiting on the little princess to arrive! (But also hoping she takes her time the next few weeks to make her debut!) :)