jill's shower

i've been on a bit of a blog vacation.  life is keeping us busy doing this and that with family and friends both in town and out of town.  here's the first in many blog post catch ups that i have on the agenda so you can see what we've been doing.

at the end of october was jill's baby shower.  my baby sister is having a baby!  it was a great day of friends, food, celebration and lots of great gifts to get jill and tony prepared for their new arrival.  my pictures don't begin to depict how many people came, how loud the chatter rose and how quiet it was when everyone was gone. they do show how beautiful she looks though!

jill's drill team big sister came for a visit.

baby stuff is soooo cute!

 kelly visits with our former babysitter, dionne.  dionne seemed so much older than us when she was babysitting.  now she's just one of us.

the three girls

kelly surprised jill with her arrival for the shower.  i almost blew the secret earlier in the week.  i'm so glad the secret remained.  after keeping the secret for so long i would've felt terrible to be the one that spilled the beans.  jill was so surprised to see kelly.  it's rare that we're all home together, but we've managed to coordinate it twice in 2012! 

while i was home i found an old picture of kelly and me from 1997.  i looked at her, and she said exactly what i was thinking "we pretty much all look the same."  i'm thankful to have us all together to take these pictures.