Baby Shower!

So yesterday, I was under the impression that family from King City was coming. There was a planned get-together at Dorian's aunt's house, and I was told it was another family member's birthday. But I was misinformed...by my own creative Dorian!

We had spent the morning out shopping for things we needed, and I got two new shirts, some new underclothes (thanks to baby, I'm getting bigger uptop), and Dorian got a new shirt. We also went out to lunch at Wendy's and enjoyed the 4th rainy day since I've been here. That's right 4th rainy day since we came in April! Anyway, it was a good distraction...because I was already happy I got some new things.

When we came home, we changed our clothes, and Dorian cut his hair. He even put on nice dress shoes, which I should have definitely noticed...seeing as the last time he put on dress shoes was like last year. I just thought he was actually listening to me and dressing all studly since he got a new shirt and took the time to cut his hair for the "birthday" party.

When we got to his aunt's house, I walked in and when they were all like "¡sorpresa!", I was confused. The whole front of the house was decorated in pink baby shower decorations, and people were everywhere. All of the women had little nametags and pins with little ribbons and bottle decorations on them. Almost as soon as I walked in, Dorian's mom put this huge bow on me, and the games began. The other women there were playing games, and won prizes for each game. There was a game where everyone had to guess how big I was around using toliet paper, a winner for the first person who came (which I wasn't there for), a game with clothespins where with one hand they had to pick up however many they could one at a time, and my personal favorite: the game where they had to bend over and stick bows of toliet paper on their butts as high as they could...!!! Yes, there are pictures of all these games on my myspace site.

I recieved so many gifts, and many of them were helpful. They were all so pretty. I have quite an array of sizes of clothes, an entire crib set, baby bottle cleaners, wipes, baby oil, baby powder, baby shampoo & bath stuff, soft hairbrush & comb, shoes, recieving blankets, bibs, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff! Tia Martha made my cake, and it was sooo good...peach flavored! I'm not a cake person, as most of you know, but this was definitely tastey! The men & rest of the guys were outside while all of this was going on, on the patio, so I made sure to stop by and thank them for bringing their wives and everything. Thank-you to everyone that came, and especially to Dorian's mom, Tia Martha, and Gabby for putting so much effort and time into setting up, cooking, decorating and hosting the shower. And as always, a huge thank-you to my Bebi, Dorian, for distracting me and coming along to something I know wasn't a guy's "cup-of-tea". Thank-you cards will be sent out ASAP.

Baby is going to have so many comfy clothes and goodies when she comes into the world!

Pictures from the shower are in an album on my myspace page: www.myspace.com/sing_skate_dance_live2

~Steph