Baby Shower!!!

Saturday evening was the baby shower for Linda and Craig!  Isn't Linda a cute preggo?

Linda at almost 30 weeks

Our mom put a lot of thought into the decorations. Here are just some of them:



front view of the "diaper cake" motorcyle my mom made



side view

rear view

other side view

Linda and Craig's "baby" board



Baby Craig - couldn't get the pic to rotate.  =/

Baby Linda

pouting Linda?  nah...it's a pouting Kimpossible that was put up on the board in error.  no worries, it was later removed.



Games were played, but not your typical baby shower fare.  Ever seen the show Minute to Win it?  5 games were chosen from the tv show, but instead of having 1 minute to complete the task, the guests were competing against each other.

We played "Hanky Panky" which had the players empting Kleenex boxes one tissue at a time as fast as they could go. 

We played "Baby Blockin'" which had the players stacking 5 baby blocks on top of each other upon a paper plate placed on their respective heads.

We played "Baby Bottles" which had the players drinking 4 oz. of beer or soda (their choice) out of a baby bottle.

Hey lookie there...it's Melissa from beerrunner - she represented the girls!

We played "Separation Anxiety" which had the players sorting M&Ms by color in a specific order one by one.

And...last, but not least, we played "Jingle in the Trunk" which had the players wiggling their bodies to displace 5 jingle bells from inside a Kleenex box tied to their wastes.

It was fun to see so much participation - from both the guys and the girls!!!

We had appetizers of jalapeno poppers, taquitos, fruit salsa with pita chips, chips & queso, and of course a fruit salad.

carved with love by Kimpossible!

My parents ordered fajitas and all the fixins' from Rico's Grill for dinner.

Of course it wouldn't be a party without cake.  We had a caramel tres leches cake and a chocolate tres leches cake courtesy of Rao's Bakery.

And...let us not forget the party favors:

candy "bar" party favors

Oh and Linda told me she had it all figured out what presents our other siblings and I bought for them for the shower because of my anti-BabiesRUs post a few days ago.  Turns out she was wrong!  That will show her that there is only one true Nancy Drew in this family (yours truly)! 

Here is what they received courtesy of me, Cathy, Jay, Eddie and April:

Beaba Babycook

Graco Lovin' Hug Swing

All and all, it was a wonderful baby shower!  Congrats to Linda and Craig on the upcoming arrival of their baby boy!