Baby Blake's shower

Saturday we had a shower for Meredith and baby Blake to arrive in early September. The theme was turquoise and brown. We had a sweets shower and I baked cupcakes and the icing from scratch (toot toot). I used the recipe from NYC's famous Magnolia Bakery for vanilla cupcakes. I also baked my homemade sugar cookies that have become my go to cookie since last year. I really baked them for me but I know that Meredith loves them as well (Ella Grace seemed to enjoy them too). I have always enjoyed cooking but I am trying to step out of my comfort zone and start baking. It is an exact science so that part stresses me out a bit. The shower was a success and Meredith took much better pictures available on her blog:

http://www.therockinl.blogspot.com/

sugar cookies and cupcakes (sorry my pics turned out terrible)

a better shot of the cupcakes

I was even feeling a bit crafty in the weeks before so I made a diaper cake. It was my first attempt and I think it turned out well. Thank you to the blogger out there who posted a step by step of how to including pictures. It would not have been possible without your guidance!

the diaper cake..not bad for first attempt

Vaca...

We were very lucky to go on vacation for the week of 4th of July. We went to a resort on a private island off of Key West. The resort was amazing...however Key West not so much. We had a beach front cottage and just relaxed all week. It was hard to leave the beautiful island. Hope you enjoy the pics!

view from the front porch of the cottage....

First prego pic post...belly is growing

This is the color of the water there
and these were schools of fish swimming at the boat dock

Where we spent most of our time
laying out on the beach or in the ocean

Dinner by sunset before firework show

JJ's sunset shot...

Mom and Dad on cottage porch

Introducing...Emerson Chase Jones


With a baby girl on the way I decided that we should step into the 21st century and start a blog to keep family and friends up to date. We had our 3d sonogram yesterday and it was amazing. We were there for about an hour and a half trying to get her to move her hands from her face. We got some good pictures and everything on video. We even caught her sucking her thumb. We think she is beautiful and can't wait for her arrival. We are very thankful that God has blessed us with this beautiful baby.

This is a 2d pic of her profile that looks a lot like my baby profile


I love this one. She is frowning because they aggravated her by turning up the heartbeat volume to move her hands from the front of her face

A good shot of her face

We think she was sucking her thumb here