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February 23, 2008

Last Shower

Filed under: Gifties,Party — JeniQ @ 11:34 pm

The folks at work threw me a very surprise shower the other day at work! How fabulous! I was so very surprised.

There was a whole spread of home-made desserts, including brownies, cookies, and rice crispy treats, plus other store-bought yummies, including cheesecake and donuts. I was in heaven.

Desserts and Cake

Delighted!

The diaper cake was an enormous diaper cake and each diaper was individually hand-tied. 🙂 Wow! It was adorned with cute pacifiers and rattles and topped with the most adorable stuffed frog. I may claim him for myself.

Diaper Cake

The girls who threw the party put on a game of Baby Family Feud. Every time a team won a round, they got a gift card, which they promptly gave to me! We have restaurant gift cards to keep us in food for weeks after the baby comes! How thoughtful!!

We also got a few outfits for the baby and a very soft, very snuggly blanket.
Hoodie Blanket

It was such a nice event, and I loved being so surprised with it. Hooray!

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February 19, 2008

Kitteh Dance

Filed under: Cats — JeniQ @ 6:00 pm

How much do I love my kitteh? More than I can count!
I love my kitty

And here we are, dancing. 🙂
Jeni & Cayce Dance

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February 15, 2008

Online Baby Pool!

Filed under: Babies — JeniQ @ 11:35 pm

In light of our latest doctor visit, we decided to post an online Baby Pool so you can guess at the date and time of the birth of and the weight and length of Baby Dickens.

So click the link below and go vote!

Thanks to the folks at ExpectNet for creating a free, online baby pool. Here’s info from their website:

How is the winner calculated?
ExpectNet calculates an overall winner and a winner in each category (closest to length, weight, and birth date and time). To calculate the overall rankings, penalty points from each category are totalled. The default points are assigned as follows:
birth date & time: 5 points/hour
weight: 5 points/ounce or 0.2 points/gram
length: 10 points/inch or 4 points/centimeter

The winner is the person with the fewest points.

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February 14, 2008

Shower Wrap-up

Filed under: Friends — JeniQ @ 11:18 pm

I wanted to take a minute to thank the ladies that made this event as special and fabulous as it was. The core group of Ali, Amy, Tyra and Mom planned and organized the event, which required lots of e-mail and a few conference calls. Amy flew in from Atlanta and Ali drove up, toting decorating items and fresh flowers, from Birmingham. Lindsay and Ian flew in from Dallas, and Ian helped soothe the soul of a few new mothers who came to the party while Lindsay made that awesome fondue. Monica left her baby and husband for the weekend and flew in from Austin to be with us. Cristin made pudding shots and photographed the event. Everyone helped out getting things set up. And it seemed as if Mom cleaned the entire kitchen by herself – we had to chase her out of there!

I love you guys, all of you!

Some cute personal shots I found.
Tyra and Jeni

Jeni & Monica

Ele, Ian & Monica

Tracey & Jenny

Cristin & Jeni

Mom finds a place for her beer

And did I mention all the gorgeous floral arrangements?

This one arrived from Granma.
Granma’s Flowers

And the rest were scattered around the house.
Daisies

Carnations and ranunculus in milk jugs

Roses and Ranunculus

Poppies

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Gifts!

Filed under: Gifties — JeniQ @ 10:50 pm

Did I mention that there were gifts? Oh my lordy, was there a pile of gifts!! I had originally thought that we wouldn’t do gift-opening, but I’m glad we did. It was fun!

I hesitate to put pictures up of gifts, because I don’t want anyone to feel slighted. However, there are some really cute gifts we received! Please know that if you gave us a gift, we love it and are very touched by your thoughtfulness. But onesies make better blog pics than crib sheets. There are also 184 photos of me opening gifts, so I’ll see if I can keep it reasonable. 🙂

Surrounded by gifts

Surrounded by friends

A common expression

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Shower Crafts

Filed under: Crafty — JeniQ @ 9:59 pm

I was worried that without traditional shower games, the party might be a little boring for some, so I suggested maybe having a craft project. I was inspired by the girlie sleepover I threw a few years back. The ladies took the idea and ran with it. The picked up these little denim tote bags and had letters, crystals and other iron-on designs available so everyone could make a personalized bag. How cute?!

Ali, Linz & Jenny

Amy & Tyra

Jenny with skull and crossbones tote

I was feeling a little more “baby-centric” so I opted to festoon a hand-me-down onesie I had. I think it turned out pretty good!

Jeni Onesie - Front

Jeni Onesie - Back

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Shower Eats

Filed under: Meals & Food,Party — JeniQ @ 9:10 pm

This will probably be the prettiest post on my site, so enjoy all these lovely pictures!

The spread at the shower was just amazing. Credit to the girl who dreamed up the menu! It was delish, and there was so much food, I know no one left hungry!!

I had one request and for that I used either the word “Mexican” or “cheese,” I can’t remember which. I got a variety of tasty little cheese-filled mexican treats. And when asked what food would go best with melted chocolate, I greedily said pineapple! I got that wish, too.

The table, at a glance.
Table1

Spread2

Some close-ups.

Cheese Platter

My girls wouldn’t use bowls for dip, would they?

Veggies and Dip

Shrimp Cocktail

Pinwheels

The chocolate fondue – how fabulous is chocolate fondue?

Chocolate Fondue

I spent half the night eating most of the pineapple at the fondue bowl. YUM.

Fruit

What shower would be complete without a cake? But not content to do it up like everyone else, they went with a cookie cake!! It was like a chocolate chip coookie, but enormous, and with icing. It said “Bye bye tummy, Hello Mummy!” So freaking cute.

Cookie Cake

Cute Napkins

And I didn’t even make it to this tray, but they look gorgeous, don’t they?

Dessert Bars

There was plenty of wine, some crazy strong blue Wildberry Martinis and of course, pudding shots. Pudding shots are quite yum! Everyone seemed pretty relaxed and happy – I think the food and drink was a hit!

Pudding Shot

Photo credit.

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Shower Preparations

Filed under: Party — JeniQ @ 8:35 pm

It seemed like the ladies worked all day on shower preparations. There were trips to the store, lots of cleaning and straightening, and a few conspiritorial conversations. Everybody got involved but me, of course. They got most of it set up while I wasn’t looking, so I got to be surprised by the spread and the decorations.
It was so amazingly lovely to have a party at home and be just exactly what you wanted, but not have to work at it. Must be what it’s like to have a catered party, but this was still better because it was dreamed up by the thoughfulness of friends.

I’m helping

Everyone’s working

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February 12, 2008

Saturday AM

Filed under: Visitors — JeniQ @ 1:46 pm

Saturday morning was very nice and relaxing. At least for me. I didn’t lift a finger all weekend and it was awesome! Amy and Ali were pretty busy with shopping trips, but they made it home in time for breakfast.

We had coffee and a make-your-own waffle bar with strawberry and blueberry toppings, along with bacon and sausage. Yummy!
Then we sat around the living room and texted other people.
Texting

More Texting

We played with Ian.
Dave and Ian

And hung out with the cats on the front porch – it was gorgeous out.
Monica, Linz and Ian

One of the best parts of the trip was getting to try out some of our new baby gifts!! We used the car seat, the Pack and Play, and the Jungle Swing with Ian. He seemed to approve!
Ian in the swing

Oh, and Dave spent the morning setting up our new TV – do you covet or what?

Ah, I can’t resist one more picture of Dave and Ian, taken Sunday morning!

Up Next – The Shower!!

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Weekend Visitors

Filed under: Meals & Food,Visitors — JeniQ @ 12:50 pm

Before I start blogging about the shower(!!!) I thought I’d recap the rest of the weekend with our visitors.

First, we played with Ian some more.
Linz, Ian & Dave

And then we tried to go to the Mellow Mushroom but it was an hour wait and it was pretty cold outdoors, which was the only place to wait. Their bad fortune was good news for the folks at MoJoe’s across the street where we ended up. It’s a funny little place with an odd crowd, but they’ve got good burgers and tasty fried accompaniments. Yum!!

Ian was precious, of course. (It was a little cold on their heated porch.)
Linz & Ian @ MoJoes