Shower pictures

I had an amazing shower thrown for Kate and me on March 27. My aunts Tracy & Chris put so much into it; it was beautiful! It was held at the Jovian Taphaus in Madison, and we had the best time. The colors were pink and green, and it was such a perfect "welcome to the world" party for little Kate. She was so good, too; she slept almost the whole time!









Nana and Kate


What a stretcher!


The two grandmas






Four generations












Rori helping me open gifts


My good friends, from L-R, Liz, Melinda, Nikki and Meghan (who is expecting in September)














My goddaughter and my daughter :)


I loved the table decorations and flowers


Rori loves Kate so much; it's so sweet
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Me with the two hostesses


Katrina, Rori, Kirsti, and Karissa


What a gorgeous cake!

When Kate met Nana

Here are some photos from when my mom was here end of March/early April. She was here for 10 days and it was so much fun; I wish she could have stayed longer!


This was on my birthday (a few days before my mom came); she was mad about having her picture taken, apparently :)


With Aunt Nancy




Meeting Nana for the first time








With the lion rattle Nana bought






Saying good-bye to Grandma Gail before she went back to Seattle :(

More pictures...

On Sunday we went over to Greg's house to celebrate Dan Hines' birthday. It was a beautiful spring day, and we had a lot of fun hanging out and talking with everyone.





Greg and Kate




Rori holding Kate for the first time


Here's Kate by the bear that we take a picture of her by every month to document how she's grown. Here she is at a month and a half; look how she's grown compared to her two-week old picture below!!

Some Easter photos

Kate's first Easter was fun, and of course she looked adorable in her dress. We went to the Jovian Taphaus for Sunday brunch with Tracy, Dan H., Kiki, Rori, and my grandparents. Then we went to Tracy's house to look for Easter baskets and eggs. It was a lot of fun, but I just didn't feel the best because the antibiotics I'm taking for my breast infection made me feel kind of nauseated at times. Oh well.


By one of the presents Nana gave her for Easter


The day before Easter, Nana left to go back to Utah; Kate and I both wish she were still here!


Daddy put her dress on backwards, so I had to get a picture of it. She is not very happy!


Kate doesn't seem too excited by her Easter basket.


And we have anger...


that quickly subsides.


With Grand-Aunt Tracy


With Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa


Looking pensive with Daddy


Kate wasn't really an active participant in the Easter egg hunt; she slept through the whole thing. Luckily she only had a few eggs to find, so Dan and I didn't have to do too much of her work for her ;)






Why are both she and Dan wearing different clothes, you may wonder? Well, because her diaper decided to malfunction when she was wearing her Easter dress--go figure! Some got on Dan, too, since he was holding her, so Dan H. let him borrow some clothes.




What a smiler!