The Bridal Shower was a success!

It's been a while - woops! Let me back up and catch up on the rest of last week before I head into the weekend. I hit the 9-week mark this past Thursday...and woke up with a huge baby bump (compared to the day prior)!! I had no idea where it came from or how it happened literally overnight...after talking with my friend Sara, she said that sometimes things shift around and perhaps my uterus was more anteriorly placed that day. It lasted about two days and then went down a bit Saturday. Thankfully! It's not that I'm in denial about the coming belly, but being only 9 weeks doesn't mean the belly just appears out of nowhere this early! I don't think first-timers are supposed to show this early, so that's why I was so surprised. On to Friday...

Friday, after successfully getting to WI late Thursday night driving alone with two dogs, I drove up to Green Bay to hang out with the bride-to-be, my bff from back home, Steph. We went shopping and after complaining about how my pants don't fit in the waist anymore, Steph promptly convinced me to get some mommy pants. I denied the need and said I wanted to wait for a few more weeks yet since all of my friends here in IA said they didn't start wearing mommy pants until weeks 12-14...but thinking of my pants needing the rubber band trick for 3 more weeks just about sent me over the edge. So I picked up two pairs of mommy pants, tried them on, and am never going back. I even suggested to Adam that I wear them for the rest of my life, pregnant or not...he disagreed. So there. I admitted it. My bloating and slowly expanding belly is in maternity pants too early. But I'm so much more comfortable. And I don't care. :) I went to pick up Adam up from the Milwaukee airport and after a 25-minute traffic jam, he was successfully retrieved and we went back to my dad's house for dinner with my brother, his fiance, and her parents.

Steph's bridal shower was Saturday and it went off without a hitch! Thanks to the help of mothers and bridesmaids, Steph's bridal shower went as well as I could have hoped. She only had to have 6 pieces of gum for the bubblegum game. It's a game where you ask the bride's fiance 15 questions prior to the shower...and then make her answer them at the shower. For each question she gets wrong, she puts a piece of bubblicious gum into her mouth. Steph did this for me at my shower, so I felt it only fair to return the drooling, hilarious favor. :) Needless to say, we tied. It turned out great and then I went home to lie down as the long day took most of my energy.

Today we went back up to Green Bay for brunch with the bridal party and after picking up our naughty dogs, we headed for home - and remembered to pick up Adam's truck in the Quad Cities and are home resting in our PJs. Hope everyone else had a good weekend! More soon!