Family Welcome of Eliana

My sweet mom threw Eliana a "Welcome to the Family" Shower this past weekend and it was so nice just to see everyone and spend some time catching up and celebrating Eliana's birth.
Mom made yummola crepes with cream and fresh strawberries and blackberries and lots of other goodies too. And both sides of our family came (and get along great!!!!) to the party- above is Eliana's Oma (my mom) and Auntie Maritza and cousin Jeremiah (Jeff's brother's wife and our nephew)- Maritza has been such a blessing as she is always willing to give me a hand with the girls and we all adore her!

Here is Great (yes, she is great!) Aunt Cheryl (Jeff's dad's sister)
and Grandma (Jeff's mom)-two WONDERFUL women!

Cousins Amanda and Samantha (Jeff's sister's girls) and they are as sweet as they are beautiful!

Opening our gifts...let me tell you how excited Rayah was to be able to go to the shower and help open gifts. When I got pregnant with Jaden she was anticipating a shower and then one of the first questions when I got pregnant with Eliana was "Can I go to your shower and help open gifts?" So this celebration has been a long time coming in her mind and she was a big help-
as she always is!

Ashlyn, Rayah, and Katrina (my cousin's daughter) all hanging out together and welcoming another girl to the family. Eliana has too many cousins for me to count- lots of love and lots of playmates!

Cousin Regina blocking the sun as the star of the party takes a beauty rest. No one believed me that she has a HUGE set of lungs AND she is good sleeper- they just believed the latter.
Cousins Kathy (my mom's cousin) and Chelsea (my adorably cute, talented, great, godly, sweet, smart, hard working----quite a catch cousin! Who if you know any great guys cause she deserves nothing less- let me know:))! (Love you chels!- forgive me)