The not-so-surprise, surprise baby shower

As my grandma always says "What to do? What to do?".

I found myself asking this question Monday evening when I came across an email in my inbox that was SO obviously not meant for my eyes. Come to find out the young women were planning a surprise baby shower for Kayla and me.

So now that I know, and I'm not supposed to know, what do I do? And do they know that I know? hmmm. Quite the dilemma.

I noticed that Kayla got the email as well so I called her and we decided that we would just play along. Our husbands were supposed to make us late to YW so they could set up. Conal was relieved that he didn't have to think up some way to make me late and then have me irritated with him. ha ha!

Well, come to find out, Heather figured out her email mistake about an hour after she sent it and she and Jerriann decided that they wouldn't call our attention to it, play along and see what happened.

So Kayla and I showed up late as planned, wondering if the email mistake had been discovered and if we were still supposed to play along. Heather and Jerriann set everything up as planned and wondered if we knew, that they knew, that we knew.

We sure have been getting a good laugh out of this one!

We had such a fun time at the shower. Jerriann and Heather are so much fun!

I was even a good sport to drink apple juice out of a baby bottle.

Darn it all, I LOST too.

Glad the YW were all busy with their own bottles or I guarantee a picture of this would've ended up on facebook within hours.

I actually won one of the games. I know. Amazing. I never win baby shower games........but I was only 7 jellybeans off when guessing how many jellybeans are in the baby bottle.

How many would you guess? huh? huh?

This was real crowd pleaser at home as well........I could barely get a picture of it before it was snatched.

Thanks for the cute baby stuff ladies! It's exactly what I need and in the colors I love.

Thank you so much for a fun night, and for thinking of me! I really appreciate it!

7th Heaven

May 14, 2003 :

May 14, 2010 7:41am (the time of Hailey's birth):

I sure love having a 7 year old girl around the house.

She loves to help and play with the younger two kids.

Her newest form of entertainment is to teach Macy funny things to say, like "I'm MAD!" or "GG did it" or "Jacky is a bad boy", and "Macy is a good girl".

Conal and the boys went to the Fathers and Sons campout the night of Hailey's birthday. I could tell she was disappointed that they would be gone so I asked her if she wanted to have them stay for her birthday and she said "NO! Garrison would be SO disappointed. He looks forward to Fathers and Sons all year long!"

So instead, we girls headed off to Chili's for some yummy food and a lot of fun.

Hailey loved the waiters singing "Happy Birthday" to her and the Molten Lava cake didn't hurt either.

We had our own sleep over too.

Then she decided that it was pretty cool that the boys went to the campout because she got to have another birthday party the next day when they got back.

Happy 7th birthday Hailey!

Iron Chef

I'd love to take credit for the young women winning the "Iron Chef" competition but hey......you'd all know that it was a lie! All of my good recipes come from my aunt "Debbie Crocker" and my other aunt "Becky Crocker"...........and then there is good ole Betty Crocker. LOL!

The young women did all of their baking at my house. The not-so-secret ingredient was lemon (we had to know ahead of time to make sure that we had all of the ingredients). While we leaders sat around watching,

or taking pictures (um yeah, there is a reason that I am avoiding cameras while 7 months pregnant.......)

the young women whipped up some wonderful lemon bars, a lemon meringue pie, with some strawberry lemonade to wash it down.

Heather and JeriAnn even found this darling plate for the presentation.

Too bad I didn't take a better photo of the final presentation.

The young women had some hard competition though. The young men made a lemon cheesecake and a lemon slushy, both of which from what I hear, were very tasty.

Hope the Little's house is still in one piece after the YW and YM met their to try out their goodies.

Oh BTW, the young men want to challenge us again...........but next time, they insist that we have to cook meat! ha ha!