The Donovans

My sisters, mom, and mother in law through one of the best baby showers ever! My sister Mary hosted in her beautiful backyard. Since it’s the time of covid, and trying to do things as safely as possible, my sisters ordered a food truck, 911 Tacos, and it was DEEEELICIOUS! I still think about how great the food was today. Patrick brought up how good the drunken beans were multiple times that night. Seriously, some of the best Mexican food I’ve ever had. The owners of the truck make a special menu sign for private events. They also had a fresh watermelon drink, lots of the guests added rum to give it a little kick. Thank you so much for throwing us the best baby shower ever!!! We had so much fun welcoming Baby D to the family.  We have the best family! It was a very hot and humid day, it rained just for a little bit while we were all eating, but overall, was a beautiful day.  Lindsey and I, our last bump photo together. Lindsey was 38 weeks and I was 30 weeks. (Yes, I had two ou...

We found out we were pregnant, January 22nd. I waited for Patrick to come home from work to take the test together. We were both in complete shock and a lot of “Holy sh*t” were said. We went out to dinner to celebrate at one of our favorite restaurants in Oak Creek, Di Carlo (the only place that has comparable pizza to Kenosha pizza in the Milwaukee area). After dinner, we went to Target to buy the baby their first onesie, but we couldn’t find anything gender neutral, so we looked on Amazon and found this cute little onesie, Holy Guacamole! I used this picture as a way to tell close family and friends that we were pregnant.  The cookies, I made myself. I made these to tell our parents. I’m pretty sure my mom still has hers in her freezer. Lots of trial and error to make these cookies, to say the least. Thank god for YouTube.  (I apologize in advance for all the black backgrounds in the photos, I tried to crop them, but that clearly didn’t work) This is the announcement we used...

 Welcome to our blog as we welcome our first baby into the world! A few of my family members, mainly my sisters (yes I’m dissing you Jeff for failing on updating your blog in YEARS), have a blog that I enjoy refreshing for updates every week, so I thought, why don’t I make one?!  Being pregnant during covid and quarantine, as well as being a nurse in a hospital, has brought its challenges/fears/anxieties, we persevered )so far) and are ready to welcome this baby boy or girl in just a few short weeks! 2020 has gotten a very bad rap, it’ll be a year in history to remember, from Covid-19, all non-essential stores and restaurants closed, Black Lives Matter, to my hometown of Kenosha being looted and set on fire due to a police officer shooting, making global news.  September 25th is our actual due date, so we’ll see if Little D decides to come early or late.  I probably should have started this a little earlier, but I thought we could just go down memory lane of some pho...