One of our SCA/archery friends is about to pop out a baby (due early June) and, with her family in Texas and friends all over the place due to her husband being in the military, she was totally convinced she would not be having a baby shower. Of course Heather and I just couldn't let that happen--or not happen rather. So we started working on the theme a couple months ago then started working on getting her husband's help then had to wait to for Heather to figure out a good time since her 5 year old is probably the most popular person in Southern Maryland and has parties and other events schedule damn near every weekend and we finally were able to settle on a date about 2 weeks before said date. Of course then came Heather leaving town for 4 or 5 days, which then overlapped with my last minute decision to go see my mom. Heather had asked me to make up and send out the invites while she was gone and I just didn't have time to do so before leaving for Missouri. So the night of my mom's surgery I went home and started making the e-vites and sent them out the next day while waiting for my mom and stepdad to come home from the hospital. Heather worked on getting decorations together while I was still out of town and I started looking for Hawaiian themed recipes for the party. That last week of co-planning all the final bits was done completely through email and phone calls. Yay us! :) I got asked to go to lunch with the guest of honor the day before the shower, which was then canceled due to the weather (severe thunder storms, tornado warnings, the works) so we ended up pushing it to the next day and I had to cram it into all the last minute things I had to do before the party without letting on that we were, in fact, throwing her a party. A couple of the dishes we had planned on were not made but there was plenty of food nonetheless. The guests of honor arrived and, as expected based on her comment that she was "not going to have a baby shower", the soon-to-be mommy was thoroughly surprised and even cried a bit. Again, yay us! :)
Heather had found a bag of 50 pink mini-pacifiers (they're having a girl) and hid them around the kitchen and living room (You can see 2 "hidden" in the cake. I promise not all were that easy to spot.). Everyone walked around looking for as many as they could find. There was a 3-way tie for 47 found. I'm still bitter I didn't see those last 3. I would have too if I hadn't needed to feed my son. Damn Charlie for not looking more thoroughly for me!! :) My mother-in-law put together an advice book with cards for everyone to write bits of parenting advice on for the future parents. The book works as a photo album too so I need to get the shower pics off to them so they can fill in the blank spaces with pictures and have it be a memory book of their shower. The baby's name will be Leilani, and being the book lovers we are, we did a Hawaiian/baby book theme. Heather borrowed books from her 5 year old to supply some of the decor and we did pink, purple and orange streamers and balloons. The cake was make up to look like a leather-bound book entitled "Leilani's Story Begins" with tropical flowers around the base. Everyone seemed to have fun so all in all, I think it was a fairly successful baby shower!
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