This past weekend...

This past weekend was great! Saturday, my dad's side of the family threw a family party/baby shower for John & I, as well as my cousins PJ & Gail who are expecting their third baby. Mostly, we got Babies 'R' Us gift cards, and that's great! We were able to afford to buy a travel system stroller/carseat we wanted, so we bought it last night! I'm really excited about it, that will be great, and the help to afford it was awesome. You can check out the stroller we chose here.
I'll be putting some photos up online soon of the showers, but I'm kind of holding out until all the showers are done.

Sunday, some of our friends threw us a really nice baby shower, that I know probably took a lot of time to plan. We got some wonderful gifts from them and we are very grateful! We have such great friends to do something like that. Some of the things we got are just going to be nice to have, whereas some of the things are things we really needed - like a Boppy pillow and a mini diaper bag. One of them gave us a gift card to Target too, which I KNOW will get used. In fact, I plan to use it this morning on something that is on our registry, so that will be great! Then, we have one friend that gave me a gift certificate to an actual spa that is good for any service. Of course, there is a dollar amount, it's not good for anything, but a dollar amount towards any service I want. I'm pretty sure I've got what I want all picked out already :-) He also just gave us some cash to put towards something for the baby. Thank you again to all of you guys.

We are lucky enough to have another shower being thrown for us on December 2nd, which will be great! I'm hoping for more Target gift cards, since that is where we do more of our shopping, but mostly that's just because it's much closer to our house than the closest Babies 'R' Us.

John and I also went and splurged on some new video games this weekend! It was fun - we got Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance and started a two person campaign last night. I think I'm really going to enjoy the game, so far I've really liked it! We played for about 2 hours yesterday, and we'll probably play a lot more during our down time this week, so that will be fun. It's nice to have a game that we both can play together, not just one at a time!

I hope everyone else had a great weekend too! I will check in again probably on Wednesday after my check up!