Creative Christmas Gift

Here's the only creative thing I made for Christmas (of course it was an idea I found on Pintrest). On the Cermak side we exchange "creative" gifts instead of regular presents between my siblings.

This year I made these:

Supplies: styrofoam cones (12" & 18"), scrapbooking paper, hot glue gun, felt, buttons/decorations

Scrapbooking paper cut in 1" x 2.5" pieces and rolled up with a pencil

Glued on the tree

and finished.

Warning: They turned out cute... But it took 7 hours to make these 4!! 

Props to the Creative

Baby D has got some special gifts that were made by some very talented people. Wanted to give some extra props to those who spent so much time making a special gift for baby.

Cross stitched by baby's Great Grandma Cermak

Blankets and burp clothes made by baby's Grandma Dschaak (and I hear this is just the start)

Made by baby's Grandma Cermak

Made by baby's Great Aunt Char

Wish I knew how to sew! Thanks everyone!

Baby Shower #2

I had another wonderful baby shower this weekend put on my by my sisters - Chas and Nikki. They did an amazing job with all of the Christmas decorations, food and theme ideas for my Santa Baby shower.

I know that they put in a lot of time, work and thought to make this day so special for me and Baby Dschaak and I can't thank them enough. It was perfect! - If you need a party planned you really should contact them!

Thank you so much to everyone who came to celebrate with us. I am extremely lucky to have such great family and friends who could come and enjoy the day with us. The only thing missing was Grandma Dschaak, who was missed, but hopefully was enjoying the warm Arizona weather!

And as always, everyone was way too generous!! This isn't even everything (as I got some late gifts sent and delivered after I took this). But a huge thank you to everyone. I'm thinking this baby should have everything he or she needs now.  Well... I hope so anyways as I honestly have no idea what all a baby really needs?!? Guess I will find out soon enough :-)

Before

The major stuff for the nursery has been bought, so the door will soon be locked waiting for our own personal interior designer (Auntie Nikki) to come and turn this into a nursery.

Clothes are all washed and put away, one side for boy and one side for girl clothes. 

So excited to get home from the hospital to see the magic Auntie Nikki will do to this room! Baby D is super lucky to have a creative aunt who agreed to design his or her nursery!

Baby's 2nd Concert

Unleashed / Bret Michaels

One of our really good friend's band - Unleashed - got to open for Bret Michaels last night at the Betty Engelstad Arena; so we had to go watch and support our favorite band. 

Unleashed

Our friend Jeremy - Rocking it out on the drums!

Bret

Never thought I'd be going to another concert with a huge belly. But we had a great time and Unleashed rocked! Great job guys!!

Ready for Christmas

Baptism Outfits

I was going to wait until baptism to show these but then I realized I would only be able to show the baby in 1 of them and I love them both; so I thought I would put pictures up of them up now.

A while ago (even before we found out we were expecting) I decided I didn't know what to do with my wedding dress. It was just taking up a lot of room in the closet. So I asked Grandma Dschaak to make it into a baptismal gown. She surprised us with making my dress into a girl gown and a boy outfit. She is incredibly talented and I really love how they turned out.

Here's the before:

And here's the finished products:

Thank you SO much Grandma Dschaak!! The outfits are absolutely amazing and I know Baby D will treasure whichever one he/she gets to wear.

Baby Shower #1

This weekend I had my first baby shower with the Cermak/Bendish side of the family. I had such a wonderful time and felt so incredibly loved. Thank you to everyone who came and to my sister and mom for planning it all. You two really went over and above to make it an incredible baby shower!

I really loved the time I got to spend with family and it just re-confirmed how loved and spoiled Baby D is already!!

Me at 29 weeks & Shell at 22.5 weeks

Mom and her sisters (if you can't tell from the family resemblance) 

Thank you again to everyone for making it such a special day!!!!