Thank You for the Showers!!

Well, its been three parties in two weeks. We want to thank everyone who hosted, helped and showed up at our three baby showers. "Grateful" doesn't even begin to describe how all of your support has made us feel. For those of you interested in our haul over all three baby showers check out the pictures below. Click on a picture for a larger version.

Notice that we eventually realize that we have to figure out a place for everything to go. We can make it work, lots of nooks and crannies in this place.

I already posted pictures of the first shower, below are the slide shows for the other two. The first one was at Swedish Medical Center (Susan's work). They got us a large conference room and some carts to haul stuff back and forth from our cars which came in really handy! The cake was made by Laura, you can see her posing with it in the slide show.

The final shower was at our place. It was finally my turn to open gifts because Susan got to open at the first two. As you can see in the slide show, while I was opening the presents Katie and Jackie beat up Robert and ate him to gain his strength. He will be missed. The authorities agreed that they were too cute to get in trouble for that and Robert had it coming anyway.

Thank you again to everyone for coming. We know our daughters will be loved by all of our friends and family and that gives us piece of mind. Now its time to get ready for the final event. Things will be organized, cleaned, and finished. Sidney and Zoe will be here before you know it!

Love,
The Gaggle

Our First Baby Shower...

We had our very first baby shower. The turnout was great, thank you to everyone who attended. We received so many great gifts. It really meant a lot to see how many people have supported us in the last six years. Of course this is the first of three showers (we couldn't afford a convention center). We had two challenges:

Robert won the diaper challenge with over 500 (Total haul 1484.)
Jeri won the baby wipe challenge with 1000 (Total haul over 3400.)

Congratulations on winning and we hope you enjoy your prizes.

I took lots of photos (with a little help), but anyone who reads this and has pictures to add, just email them to me (or start a blog :). So without further ado, here are the baby shower pictures.

Friends...


Susan and Liz had a fun time making the baby shower cake. The slide show below is proof. The cake had nothing but rave reviews. It was a little difficult to transport though as we didn't have a box and it weighed about 30 pounds!

Cake...


On a different note, our good friend Sam was here to visit just a week ago. Because he is such a nut, I felt I should include a few photos of his visit just for giggles. Unfortunately he couldn't stay for the party.


and Laughs!


Ultrasound pictures are coming as soon as I can get down to Kinko's and have them scanned. For now, thank you again to everyone who came to the shower and to everyone coming to the others.

The Gaggle loves you all :)

Moving into the New Year

Our new year started with a great experience. We haven't been able to see our surrogate for a while now mostly due to scheduling conflicts. Today, finally we were able to get together. We had been hearing stories about our girls moving (very ferociously) at times. During lunch we were able to finally feel them.

It was a wonderful experience. Everything became more real when our girls were kicking (or headbutting?) our hands. Apparently they really like the Olive Garden. We were having so much fun feeling them move that before we knew it all the wait staff was staring at us because we had been there three hours!

Dawn hooked us up with more ultrasound pictures so those will be up soon. For now here is a parting shot of a VERY pregnant surrogate.

Best wishes and Happy New Year from the Gaggle!