July 16, 2004
Sharon's Baby Shower
Theme: Yellow
Guest Name Tags: Baby Name Origins & Meanings
Decorations: Yellow & white streamers and balloons. Yellow plates, cups and napkins.
Menu:
Lemonade Punch, Ginger Ale, Mountain Dew, Sprite, Plus Diet Versions
Finger-sandwiches: Chicken-salad, turkey & roast beef
Potato Chips
Potato Salad
Ambrosia (fruit salad)
Lemon Cookies
Yellow Jelly Beans & Yellow Skittles
Cake & Ice Cream
Games:
Baby's First Portrait
Each guest receives a paper plate and a crayon. Placing the plate atop their heads, each guest must draw a "baby". When all guests are done, vote for the best picture.
Celebrity Babies
Each guest is given a list of celebrity moms on the left, and a list of names on the right. Match the celebrity mom to the name of her baby/child. Ex: Madonna would by matched to Lourdes, using only the first or first and middle names, etc. Whomever matches the most correctly wins. Names of celebrity's children may be found online via different articles on many websites.
Clay Babies
You will need about one can of dough for every two people. pass out the dough and have the players make little babies. the mother-to-be then judges and the winner gets a prize.
Here's the shower invitation I made:
The Party:
Mom-to-Be
Making Clay Babies Luckily you can't see my black eye in this pic.
July 15, 2004
Traumatic Times
I've actually been pretty sick, lately. For the past few weeks I've been trying to get my Crohn's disease under control, and on top of that I had a bought with the flu. I missed a lot of work during that time and had a lot of catching up to do. Just as I was starting to get things back in order, my doctor put me on a new medication last Friday. John and I spent all of Friday evening shopping and preparing for Sharon's baby shower on Saturday. We stayed up until 3:00 AM. Well, then I started getting sick from the new medication and I was up the rest of the night.
Finally about 6 AM Saturday morning I gave up trying to get some rest and decided to take a long hot bath. Well, since I was up most of the night, I'd gotten a chill and I made the water too hot. When I got out of the tub I began to feel light-headed. I sat down on the toilet seat to gather myself and promptly lost consciousness. I woke up lifting my head from the corner of my bathtub. When I touched my face, I realized I was bleeding from my left eyebrow.
I woke John up and he had to take me to the emergency room. I was in the hospital all morning because they wanted to do a blood workup, CAT scan, EKG and a tetanus shot. I came for stitches but that was one of the last things they did. By then I was beginning to freak out because Sharon and all her peeps were going to show up at my house in less than an hour.
I begged them to do the stitches so I could leave. I finally got them to release me, but not with out some tears and general freaking out to spur them on.
I got back in the house five minutes before Sharon and some of my friends showed up. I was forced to let them help with the food so everything could get finished in a reasonable amount of time. So I greeted her guests with a black eye and five stitches in my head, but everything seemed to go reasonably well.
I continued to be sick for a few more days from my new medication, so finally yesterday I saw my doctor again and was placed on something else temporarily. Tuesday I'll have to have a colonoscopy, but I'm already starting to feel better.
July 06, 2004
Painting the Kitchen
Over the 4th of July Weekend, John and I painted our kitchen!
Before:
After:
