Baby Shower - Indiana

Last Thursday Jesse and I set of for our trip down to Indiana to visit with his family (last time before baby girl arrives). We planned our schedules so we could leave town on Thursday around 1pm to start the trip. We live 650 miles from Jesse's family, so it is always quite the epic trip. Why not fly? Well - this time of year the weather is very unpredictable (we live in an area that gets quite ALOT of snow), so flying sometimes doesn't work. Luckily we did not take the risk of flying because the weather turned out to be terrible and Chicago closed down its airport (which is the only airport our little tiny one flys into).

Anyway, we set of thinking we would drive to Chicago, stop at Ikea and then maybe finish the drive to Indiana. Instead we were hit with terrible weather that forced us to abandon original trip plans :( -
What actually happened was we drove in terrible weather on Thursday - we made it to Chicago about 3 hours after we should have, exhausted with fighting with the car to actually stay on the road. We got a hotel and then went to ikea the next day.. BUT, that meant we didn't get to see his family for as long as planned on that Friday. On Saturday we drove to Indianapolis for the baby shower, then on Sunday we drove the 12 hours back home (in horrendous weather ) AGAIN. Oh and with all that - we had a slight car malfunction, which Jesse had to get fixed when we got to Indianapolis (ugh).


The plus side of this trip - his cousins had a really nice baby shower for us, it was very relaxed. We spent time with Jesse's family, reconnect with old friends and see some of our friends that were able to come up to Indianapolis from Bloomington. It was really lovely to hang out and catch up with people - eat good food - and amazing Chocolate cake made by Heather and Lauren. Baby girl got some lovely gifts and I can't wait for our nursery to be finished so we can put it all together :)

Here are a couple of pics - when I get more, I will update this post :)

Cake made by Heather and Lauren. It was fresh cream on the outside and heavenly chocolate on the inside (so glad my chocolate aversion disappeared :)

Winnie the Pooh Diaper Cakes