Turkey Basters, Pacifiers, or Sperm?...

That is the question :)

Sunday I was surprised with an early baby shower. Apparently it had been in the works for many weeks now.

I've known about a shower at Aunt Deb's house, that is next weekend, since summer ish. I made a big list of invites, gave them to Deb, discussed some things about it, and knew when it was. Sunday I found out that Manda went right behind me with a different list, different plan, and worked out a secret shower. And she wasn't alone!

We were supposed to go to Joe's Crab Shack for her birthday dinner, with Ilona. We drive up to Ilona's house and there were a bunch of cars in the road. I asked her if she had something to tell me...she played dumb and asked me the exact same question! We go into her house, were greeted by Ilona, then I see Lisa, and Jacque, and Almida, and...a whole bunch of my favorite people! I was very surprised!!

Hugs all around, baby decorations everywhere, and Ilona asks if I want to eat or play games. I'll play games.

Do you want turkey basters, pacifiers or sperm? We played with turkey basters, filling glasses of water using only the turkey baster. We played with pacifiers, spitting them as far as we could across the room. And we played pin the sperm on the egg. All great fun and lots of laughs!

We ate great food too! Earlier that day I had seen on Facebook that Robert was making his famous pulled pork. I whined to Manda that I (and baby!) wanted some of his pork. Turns out, he was making it for our party! So I got to eat Robert's famous meat that day ;) We also had baby potatoes, lots of veggies, a spinach salad and banana and red velvet cupcakes. All the food was very much yum!

We got to open gifts from everyone too. Always kind of an anxiety filled thing for me to sit in front of everyone and open presents but it was so much fun! All of the "awes" and "ooohs" and "it's so cutes" were great. We got many things that we needed, and lots of things that were simply a must. I can't wait to play dress up with my baby girl and take pictures of her in all of the adorable new clothes she got. She's going to be one styling baby! :)

It was a great surprise! Thank you to all my friends who played along. Thank you to all my friends who love me, Manda, and baby girl so much. And an extra special thank you to Ilona and Almida for throwing the party, and just simply being YOU.

MY. FRIENDS. ARE. AMAZING.