June 2011

Another busy month.  It started off with my baby shower.  My dear friend Diana threw me a baby shower at her house and it was wonderful.  It was so nice to see so many friends.  I'm so grateful for everyone who came and all the wonderful gifts we received.  I seriously don't think we'll have to buy any clothes for a year!  Aaron and I are team-teachers in our primary and the primary presidency held another shower for me.  Even though we've been in the ward for a year now, we still don't know many people outside of the primary so I was shocked at all the people that came.  I felt so loved and was so happy to meet more sisters and get to know them better.

This is our bedding for the nursery so my mom and her mentor/best friend make the most amazing fondant cake to match.  It wasn't even sliced into at the shower b/c there were plenty of other treats and I really couldn't bear to cut into such a beautiful cake, but when we finally did, it was just as amazing tasting as it was beautiful.

Me and my cake and cupcakes that little Squid made for the shower.  They are lamb heads to match the bedding.  She did such an amazing job!

We celebrated Austin's birthday this year at Panchos (I'm embarrassed to say we ate there, but it was more of a nostalgia thing.  We used to go there when we were younger and have eating competitions).  Anyway this is a pic of me and Austin.  I'm so proud of him and all the progress he's made in the last 7 months.  He's turning out to be one amazing man.  For his birthday this year I made my first ever batch of cheese pierogis.  They are his favorite food and normally only come on Christmas so I thought it would be a fun surprise to spring on him some midyear happy birthday pierogis.  I was very proud of the end product; too much work though to make them often. 

Aaron's little brother Ryan is now officially in the MTC, learning how to speak Cambodian.  We met the rest of the Rucker family in Palm Desert to spend a week of fun and to attend his farewell.  It was so awesome to have all the Ruckers - minus one - together.  Sadly, Ben had a work training in MO, but we're glad that Vanessa and Chloe came anyway.  We spent days at the amazing Shadow Lake community, ate some great meals, and just had fun being together.  We're proud of Ryan and his decision to serve a mission (although with 4 brothers ahead of him that went on missions we joke that he really didn't have much of a choice).  It's exciting already to receive his letters and look forward to many more.

 Finally went to the farm after 4 years of being a Rucker.  Ate some grapes right off the vine

37 weeks

We spent many hours working on the nursery and it's almost done.  We painted, installed crownmolding, installed beadboard on the crib wall, and I made some decoupage ABC pictures to hang above the crib.  It was fun working with Aaron, trying to make our kid's room special for him.  We still are having a hard time finding a good dresser we want, but the little guy will be in our room for the first while anyway so I guess there's not really a rush.  At my last appointment three days ago, I was 2 cm dilated and 75% effaced.  The doctor doesn't think he'll come before my due date so I'm scheduled to be induced July 13th at 5am.  Ready or not little guy, you're coming out!



Just a fun picture of me and buddy for the sake of it