Shower the people you love with love...

Not only did we get to Savannah to see H's family this past week, but since we were there for a few days, we were able to make a quick one-day trip to Augusta to see my family. Believe it or not, H has not been to Augusta in almost two years!! We were so happy to get to see everyone and even more, that he was able to be with me. I'm so used to visiting alone, it was awesome. We were also very blessed because we had two lovely showers, one thrown by my mom with her family and the other one thrown by my dad's wife Lillie. Both of the showers were so incredible, and we felt so loved and cared for. We also got some really nice things, some that we really needed, and some that were just sentimental but equally important. My brother Tim and his girlfriend Rachel bought us all of our bedding, which, as you can see in the pictures below, looks totally adorable in the nursery.
The bedding print is a safari print, and has all sorts of cute animals on it. The colors look perfect in the nursery, too! You can see that we also got lots of other great and useful things like a wipe warmer and a changing table pad, as well as TONS of clothes, blankets, cloths, and towels. Basically, we left Gainesville with pretty much nothing we needed and came home with almost all of it! My brother Matt also made us tons of adorable things, all monogrammed with little H's name...I can't tell you how cute they are. The bag hanging on the side of the changing table is one of the things, and here's a close-up of the embroidery:

How adorable!! My other brother Jarett (who is an amazing craftsmen/artist/luthier) is also making us a "mommy's rocker", all out of very high-quality cherry wood, but it won't be finished until Christmas...and believe me, when it gets here, you all will be the first to see it. It's going to be gorgeous! My mom and Fred also made us a nifty little toy box shaped like a wagon for little H, and my grandfather carved us some painted buntings (or pops, if you're Cajun) for little H's wall. That sculpture will be getting it's own post, don't worry! We also got lots of other lovely things from my grandmother and my cousins, as well as from tons of people from Lillie's shower. It was so amazing and overwhelming to see that so many people care about us, and about little H, more than anything. We're so excited to welcome him into the world soon, and we can't wait to share these moments with all of you. And needless to say, I have oodles of thank you cards to write....because we are SOO thankful. How blessed we are! :)