Baby Shower for Ethan

Yesterday was my baby shower. Dan and Nikki hosted the shower for us and it was sooo much fun.

We had so many wonderful friends attend the shower and so much yummy yummy food. Eric helped Dan with all the food, so we had a sandwich tray, chicken wings, pizza, chips and dips, cake, oreo truffles.

Nikki planned some really fun games and even got the guys involved. We had a bottle drinking game for the guys (and Susie), fill in the blank in the nursery rhyme and list the baby items based on the baby's name (Ethan Scott), the guys blew up balloons and then had to stuff the balloon under their shirt and put a coin in between their knees and then walk/waddle to drop the coin in a cup, and then fun facts about everyone. For the fun facts game, we were to put a comment on a card that many people may not know about us. Eric picked my card and read it and didn't even recognize my handwriting (pretty sad). There were a few games we couldn't get to, one of which was for the guys which was called pin the sperm on the egg. Looked like it was going to be pretty funny.

Opening presents was so much fun. A few of our friends kept Loryn in mind, and she was able to open her own presents. She also enjoyed going through Ethan's gifts. Besides the new pillow pet that Loryn got, her favorite toy is the one that Jeff and his parent's bought for Ethan. Not sure where we are going to put it yet, but Ethan (and Loryn) are now the proud owners of a very fun rocking horse. We received so many wonderful items for the kids as well as some great books. Lots of people brought diapers and wipes to be entered into the raffle. We were so lucky to receive all of those extra gifts from all of our friends. My mother-in-law Lisa actually won the raffle. She won a $25 gift card to The Cheesecake Factory.

The party ended up going from about 3pm until after 8pm. I left around 7:45 with Loryn to try to get her into bed. Then spent several hours trying to sort and put a few items away. Ironically there aren't too many pictures of me from our shower, but below are some of the pictures from the awesome time that was had by all at the baby shower.

Eric and I with our friends Ron and Sarah and their little girl Kianna. Was so great to be able to celebrate with them before Ron had to leave again for his next trip with the military.

Eric had just cut off the tip of the nipple in order to try to win the bottle game.

The next game the guys had to blow up balloons and stuff them under their shirts.

Lara had to help her husband stuff the balloon in his shirt. It was so funny. Wish I had more pictures of this.

Bert and Mike were the finalists. They ended up having to be blindfolded on the 3rd round of this game.

Eric had so much fun with the "sing-a-ma-jig". We let Loryn play with hers and then the one that we got for Ethan. We may end up needing to get lots more of these for the kids.

Reading one of the Dr. Seuss books that we had received

This was one of the pizzas that we had gotten. Eric ordered 28 inch pies. This was our friend Bert's hand so you can see just how gigantic these pizzas were.

Brian and his son Gabriel enjoying swinging out on the porch.