Labor Day Showers

Julio and I both flew to Texas over the Labor Day weekend to attend two baby showers- one on Saturday with my close girlfriends and one on Sunday with my church family.

Before all of the madness, I had to register. Since I have absolutely NO CLUE about any of this baby stuff, I did some reading and had decided that I was NOT going to be one of "those women"- I would be practical: no need for a nursery theme, I decided that I would just buy plain sheets for the crib, etc. However, one look at this ladybug bedding set in the store and I was smitten! Not only did I register for the bedding set, but then I went for the wall decals, the lamp shade, the baskets, etc. Then, to make it all worse, when I got home and got online to complete the registry I discovered that the bedding was going out of stock. Oh NO!!!!

So my girlfriends took the ladybug theme and ran with it on Saturday- we had ladybugs on everything, and they even managed to find the aforementioned bedding as their gift to me. The shower was fun and lovely and filled with all good, "girly" things- sweets (homemade chocolate cheesecake and these out-of-this-world petit four type things we could only call "cake balls"), shower games (guess the baby food, and the oh so popular guess the melted chocolate in the diaper), and great conversation with good friends.

Sunday's shower was incredible as well. 16 families hosted a guest list that was probably the size of a small town's phone book! When Allyson, the coordinator and "chief" hostess, asked what I was craving and how I envisioned the shower- I requested BBQ and that couples be invited. I simply could not imagine celebrating the day without my ENTIRE church family: wives, husbands, and children. We gathered at The Swingin' Door, a great BBQ joint in Richmond, TX, for just that- BBQ, Beer and Baby talk. It felt like a family reunion, which was exactly what I hoped it would be.