30 weeks and baby shower love!

Here I am at the end of my 30th week. It was a pretty quiet week until the weekend. This was the weekend that I went to Salt Lake City to help celebrate baby Charlotte. Yes she has a name and a beautiful one with special meaning to dad. Myself and two other surrogates left Boise Friday and drove down to SLC to enjoy a girls/ surro/ baby weekend. It was so amazing to have two other girls who completely understand all that we have gone through to get to this point and the amazement we have to look forward to. The weekend started out great and as soon as we hit the Utah border it started to snow and boy did it snow. It snowed and snowed and continued to snow. I think that we had about 2-3 hours of non snowy weather. It was so neat to see because we get snow in Boise but not like this.

 We got to stay in the condo of one of the fathers. It was in downtown SLC and it was beautiful. This was my view I woke up to every morning. So pretty to see all the snow. We got the chance to go to breakfast with other Intended fathers that are from our agency and it was amazing to see what special connection the men have and the connection we have with them even if we are not carrying their babies.

 

Saturday after breakfast us girls headed out to do some serious shopping while my IF's got the prep work done for the baby shower. We had such a good time exploring the malls of SLC. I wish we had more time and money to really enjoy what the beautiful city had to offer. As shopping concluded we headed out to the IF's house to celebrate baby Charlotte.

The house looked amazing and there was so

much amazing food and drinks, all orchestrated by the IF's mom and sister. It was truly beautiful. 

This is me by the amazing dessert table that flowed with yummy treats that were all homemade and delicious. There were so many people that came to celebrate the dads addition and the excitement in the room was overwhelming. Everyone had only great things to say about what amazing parents these men were going to make and what a gift I was giving. I had a really hard time accepting their compliments because I was feeling like I was the one who was lucky to be a part of this special family. It was so nice to see how many people this baby will be surrounded by. All completely in love with her before shes even born. It made this whole experience so real and so fulfilling. I know that we have gone through some hard times to get to this place and the feeling I felt that night was worth every shot I had to do, every lab draw, everyday that I was sick and every minute that I am tired. After being a part of their night I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else!

 This is just one of the tables of gifts that the dads received from all the guests. There was at least two more that was full of baby gifts and the floor was covered with diapers to help get them started.

                                                                                           

 

 

 This was such a memorable night for us all and I really enjoyed meeting all of their special family and friends. And I really hope that they can meet some of my family and friends that also support them and me and Charlotte from Boise.