Surprise!!

The main reason that Heather and I plus kids traveled home was to throw a surprise baby shower for Cody - our wonderful sister-in-law. She is expecting baby number 6, and it is yet another boy - that makes 5 boys and 1 girl. We decided that it was high time she got some new things. We had so much fun getting ready. My main goal was to keep her away from mom's house while things were getting ready. She just got a beautiful new kitchen and with her round belly, and lots of contractions hasn't been able to put things away, so I spent a few afternoons at her house helping her with that, along with convincing her to take a nap, and going to the beach with her. The best part was that the night before the shower we were getting all ready - Heather was decorating the cute cookies below, and mom and I were making pinwheels, so I went out to the garden to get the lettuce, and here comes Roy, Cody and kids headed out to the chicken house. Cody tells me that they are coming over when they are done. I run back inside, and we just started shoving things in odd places. Most of the food ended up in mom's room, and the cookies were all over the place. We had to laugh about it later, but at the time it was CRAZY!

When Cody walked in on the shower, the kids were all in the kitchen eating, and Claire looks at her and says, "Happy Birthday!" So funny. It made me think of Cinderella and Gus. Anyways, she was truly surprised, and we had a lot of fun. We played a great game at the shower where every team was given an old t-shirt and they had to create a baby outfit and have it modeled by one team memeber. They were given odd things like markers, staplers, tape, rubber band and ribbon. It was so much fun to watch people create, and we had a great time!