I hosted a baby shower for the sister while I was in Utah. Becky and Jake love to rock so I thought a concert themed baby shower was appropriate. Becky got a V.ery I. mpregnated P. erson pass to adorn her belly
I made a diaper cake to give them a collection of the tiniest diapers you have ever seen. I forgot how tiny they are. seriously.
THis was the invitation. I had fun making it.
I made back stage passes for everyone. If anyone said baby then it was a free for all for who could get their backstage pass. The winner was the player with the most backstage passes. IT was pretty fun. But I've got to say that I got conned out of mine a few time by some tricky brothers.
I decorated with blues and oranges and guitars with wings floating around.
The Benson girls won a a guitar cheese grater.
David won a guitar spatula.
I made the boys feel our pregnant pain in a game called "Clean up time". THey put baloons under their shirts and then they raced to bend down, take off their shoes, pick up 20 diaper pins off the floor, and put their shoes back on. It got pretty wild I must say.
Rosie surprised us all and won the karoke contest. we left a mivrophone in the middle of the room and people could run at random and grab the mic to sing any song they could think of with the word baby in it. Rosie made the most runs and took a sweet prize home.
This is me making horchata.
Jake won a guitar icecube tray which I am sure he can now put nice cool ice in his drink and relax while Becky changes diapers and nurses the wee one. He he.
homage must be paid to those who labored to build our shade structure. It did indeed do it's job and give us shade in the hot desert weather.
The talent show. A classic event that we all prepare so hard for. Mike played his sax for us and our family sang a song in bird calls. Okay, it was mostly only me doing the bird calls and Eric trying to pretend like he knew what he was doing and the kids got stage fright.
Jenny was in charge of the 50th anniversary bash for my parents. My dad was serenaded by his sons as he sang a love song to my Mom. The second generation of siblings and spouses surpised Mom and Dad with a song and they even got to cut an anniversary cake and dance the jitterbug. It was seriously the sweetest thing I've ever seen.
Off to the Lake for lunch and games and water fun.
Kind of blown out, but I loved seeing all the kids working together in the paddle boat. They were so independent and responsible. The story is that Anna fell out of the paddle boat and was drowning and Liam responded like a big brother should and dove into the water and saved Anna's life. It all happened in about 2 feet of water, but Liam was so proud and felt really good that he had made such a brave choice to save his sister.
