Trip to Raleigh

Ok, I know it has taken me a week, but I wanted to write about our fun trip to Raleigh last weekend. We were supposed to leave late Friday after our first childbirth class, but surprise, it was cancelled because we were the only couple to enroll. So now we are doing a weekend class in early December. No worries, I really have been dreading it anyway, so at least I got to put it off for 1 more month! am not dreading Gabriel making his appearance, I am just not that interested in hearing or thinking about the actual delivery, not to mention watching videos of other women in agony!! It worked out nicely, we were able to get to Cynthia's at a decent hour on Friday night. Saturday, we were up early and headed to Chapel Hill for the Homecoming game against Maryland. We won, but of course I did not make it through the whole game, it was still too hot and crowded for me, and the seats are just not comfortable at all. Laura and I headed to the Student Stores to do a little shopping, then met Cynthia, Laura and Travis back at the tailgate to hang out until all the crowd came out after the game.

My observation for the weekend....I have decided that our crowd is officially getting OLD! We went back to Cynthia's after the game and were all probably asleep by 10:30 or so. Some of my family and friends did hit uptown after the game, but turns out, they are old too, because they called it an early night as well. Personally, I think this could be a result of the absence of Party Animal Morgan, who has been missing for the last 7 months! No fear, I will be back, only 2 more months of Pregnant Morgan to go!!! Seriously, what the heck has happened to us???? Next homecoming, things are going to be different, that is my vow! Granted, I will need a babysitter, but I have a feeling that won't be too hard to come by!

Sunday was the big day, our first baby shower!!! Let me tell ya, the girls and Miss Rhonda did an AWESOME job! Everything was Carolina Blue of course and the food was delicious! Rhonda made this diaper cake, I have it at home now in the nursery, I couldn't bear to take it apart!!

She also made a teddy bear cupcake cake and we had "dirty diapers", which were paper diapers filled with Malted Milk balls!! Nuts were held in little baby booties made from paper towels and ribbon and the Carolina Blue punch had little rubber duckies floating in it, it looked like they were in a bubble bath! This was the first baby shower for our group of UNC girls and boy, the girls went all out!


Cynthia (not usually known for her creativity with craft ideas!) had the idea of having everyone at the shower decorate onezies with paint and they turned out to be so cool!! My personal favorite is "Mommy Needs A Drink", created by MC! They are all adorable and I can't wait to see Gabriel wearing them!!

We had a blast, and it was so good to see our friends from the Raleigh area that we don't get to see nearly as often as we would like. My friend Susan and her family (hubby Andy and two adorable kids) even came on their way back from a wedding in their hometown. We got a lot of neat gifts and I even held a few babies!!! Still haven't changed a diaper, I am holding out 2 more months so that Gabriel is my first!!! I got lots of good baby advice from Erin, there are just so many questions that I have about EVERYTHING!!!!!






Sunday night, we watched football (Cowboys vs. Eagles! at Cyn's and again, called it an early night. Monday, we lounged around until around noon, then hit the road back home. Oh, Cynthia did help me create a Facebook page, so now I am on that as well. Just one more way to waste time when I should be doing something else!! We had such a fun weekend, thanks to all our friends who made this so special for us.

Big Announcement!
My cousin Justin and his wife are the proud parents of Jett Brown Parker, born Friday 11/9 around 1:00. Check out a pic on The Spinellis Blog, he is adorable!!!!!