Family Vacation

Last week, my siblings and I treated our parents to a week in the Berkshires, as a celebration of their 40th wedding anniversary. We had many adventures which included spotting a porcupine and a middle-of-the night trip to the Emergency room (see poll, don't worry, the victim is fine). Here are a few highlights of the trip:
(photos courtesy of my brother)

Lake Garfield

Anna, Tina, Kerry, and Mom enjoy the beach

Anna climbs on sculpture outside the Norman Rockwell museum

Group shot

Baby Shower

This weekend Jamie and I traveled to New Jersey for a baby shower thrown by my mom. Here are a few photos from the event:

Group shot


Jamie's mom made this adorable blanket.


Anna really enjoyed helping me open the gifts.


My mom had the foresight when I was very young to purchase a brand new Fisher Price Freddy Bear, since I was so attached to my own Freddy Bear (creatively named "Teddy") Her intention was for me to one day have a new Freddy Bear for my own child. Here is my Teddy next to Baby Milliken's Freddy.

Baby Milliken's Crib

Plan A: Our original crib plan was just to use our niece Anna's old crib, but the day after we toted her crib from Niskayuna, NY to Waltham, MA....Anna's parents found out they were having another baby!

Plan B: Grandma and Grandpa Hehir offered to buy us a new crib with bedding to match. We chose this beautiful pine crib:



(I know the bumper's kind of ugly, but it's "breathable" and therefore helps prevents SIDS. And yes, I know that blankets and big teddy bears are also bad for SIDS, but they're just for the photo shoot.)

Now the nursery's really coming together! We also bought a matching dresser:




Hope everyone living on the East Coast survived the horrible heat wave. I really struggled through it and thought that my relatively easy pregnancy was officially over, and I could only expect two months of pure torture...but it passed and I feel so much better now!