Catch Up & First Day of 4th Grade

Wowza, it's been a month and a half since I last posted anything! I'll blame it on the pregnancy zapping all of my energy these days.

Speaking of pregnancy, we had our adorable baby shower at the beginning of this month on August 6th. It was a pink and green theme with butterflies and flowers - just like the theme of the nursery. Everything was super cute. Here are a few pictures from the shower.
Here are the adorable little favor bags:
The cute cupcakes:
It's hard to see Libby's shirt in this picture but it has Only Child on the top that has been crossed out and then under that it says Big Sister. :-) It was perfect since Libby has been an only child for 9 and a half years and now she's going to be a big sister! We got lots of precious baby clothes:
And we forgot to get a picture before half of the people left but here's a picture of my mother-in-law Carole, Libby, Karen, Debs, and Karen's mom, Diana.

This past Wednesday, August 17th my grandmother passed away. She had a few surgeries in the last month and I think that was just too much for her body to keep up with. On Friday, August 12th they had her on life support and my uncle who was overseeing her care let them know that she didn't want life support. The doctor said that as soon as they took her off of life support that it could be just minutes before she passed. Well, my grandmother decided that she'd pass when she was ready to...she held on for five days after that and then passed away in the early morning hours of August 17th. We had her viewing Sunday evening and I held up well through the viewing. Monday morning was the funeral and I was doing fine before the funeral, as well. I was standing out in the foyer speaking with some family on my left and I looked over to my right and out of nowhere like she popped out of thin air my wonderful friend Karen was all of a sudden standing next to me. I don't know if it was the surprise of seeing her there or what but that's when I finally started crying.

Also today was Libby's first day of 4th grade! Wow, her last year of elementary school! (Big fat puffy frowny face to that!!) Last week she was at work with me for the last week of summer break and we left early on Friday and met Ryan at home and then the three of us went to school to meet her 4th grade teacher. She ended up not getting the teacher who she wanted (or the friend who she really wanted in her class) but I had a great first impression of her teacher and after reviewing the class list we see that one of her friends who she adores (and was in class with in the 2nd grade) is in her class so that made her very happy. Today she went to school and had to be there a little early since she is a safety patrol this year so she has to be at her post by 7:20am. Yay. Neither Libby nor I are morning people and when she has to get up earlier that means that I have to get up earlier and these days I get very little sleep between the tossing and turning, frequent bathroom trips, and just being generally uncomfortable and now I have to wake up earlier. :-\ She was very excited about going back to school (she missed the work!) but last night when it was actually the night before school started she finally started getting nervous about the first day. After getting ready for school I snapped a few quick pictures and then we had to hurry to school so that she wasn't late her her patrol post (if she's late to her patrol post she gets a demerit!)
I picked her up after work and asked how her first day went and she couldn't stop talking about how great it was and how much she liked her new teacher! She said she had so much fun that it felt like she was only in class for two minutes before it was time to go!