Anastacia was born on September 12, 2003 via emergency c-section. Unfortunately grams had a fall while visiting me and she is still in the hospital, looks like she will be getting out tomorrow. I will give more updates.

It's a baby shower!

My niece Genesis and I

 We didn't do things in order, when it comes to first come love, then comes marriage, but it's okay! Today's post will be a picture dump of the baby shower. It was very small and intimate. My sister and law put it all together and she make everything so pretty. I loved all the balloons and all the thought out detail. 

 Grams and my aunt Sharon

 James and I, and baby Genesis, my neice. 

 Mother in law putting on a pin

 Very pretty Cake

 James and I

Being Pregnant

 Second kid not quite outnumbered but still scary. Anastacia or Annie is coming soon and I just want her to be a happy kid. As a parent, I'm going to be a better one than mine were to me because mine wasn't there. My dad died when I was eight, and my mom was a drug addict but died clean in 2004. My mom never came looking for me, so I'm already a great mom compared to that.

I promise, never to leave my kids, and I promise to do everything in my power to make you feel alone. I promise to hug and kiss you and make it normal to say I love you every day. I promise to be a tickle monster and make you laugh whenever I can. I promise to make books important and make learning fun.

I can't make any more promises because I have a bad memory and if I don't remember it kinda classifies as a broken promise. The promises that I promised don't even need remembering, because I'm sure it will come naturally.

Haul Cuddle-U Positioning Pillow

 I'm going to give this a try, especially since I am going to attempt to breastfeed.

I never had anything like this with Luke, so I'm excited!

This is not a sponsored post. 

Botanical Garden at the Bridgeport Zoo

My sister and law treated Luke and me to a visit to the Bridgeport Zoo. That was super nice of her to do that, my goodness!

 I've never been to this zoo before, and I had no clue there was a botanical garden in it. This post has a bunch of pictures of our time inside the botanical garden.