Sometimes I wish I could come up w/better titles for my posts. Oh well...

So I had my first baby shower today! It was SO exciting! Marie had it for me....Thanks so much Marie (even though she doesn't read...slacker!)!!! We had a better turn-out than I thought we would. My Aunt Mabel came, as well as Nikki and Debbie Julian. Johnny came, even though my BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD, Mike, didn't come (long story). Julia came, and brought her two total cuties Andrew and Alison. Gayle, Traci and Jennifer also came. Hmmm, did I miss anyone?...Oh, and Kara, my brother's g/f came, too. You'll see pics of her when I get around to posting them here, b/c she sat next to me. Did I mention my mom came, too?

So anyway, we played a couple of games. They were, ummm, interesting...The first one was five diapers w/different candy bars melted in them. The diapers were closed, and we had to just smell them and try to figure out what candy bar was in each diaper. I do love me some chocolate, but I tried to explain to Marie that I don't really look before I eat candy bars, I just shovel them in! I definitely don't smell them! I didn't guess one right! The next game was ten bags of white powders, and again, we had to guess what each was. They were all kitchen products, some cooking materials, some cleaners. We could only look through the ziplock baggy. It was HARD! I think I put flour for about three of them, and bisquick for about four of them. Needless to say, I was wrong! For that matter, she didn't even have Bisquick! She said that if we didn't get them, we were bad moms...Sooooo....I now have to put my kids up for adoption...any takers? There will be others up on other blogs soon, I'm sure, as I was not alone in missing well over half of them! Oh, but I did learn that you can put corn starch on a baby's butt if it's red...that was number 10! Oh, and I got grits right, b/c my mom made them this morning! If she hadn't, I can honestly say I would never have known what they look like! They were pretty fun games, and I think everyone had a pretty good time!

For gifts I got lots of stuff. What's cool is that I didn't get an abundance of clothes, b/c I have enough now for about ten newborns! I did get lots of bottle/nipple brushes and pacifiers, so that's awesome! I got some diapers and lots of pretty pink blankets, too! For some reason I was so worried about having pink blankets for her so that people would know she was a girl! No worries now, for sure! I got a double stroller and carseat from Gayle and Traci, too! I now have everything big that I will need for Taryn! I even got a cute little doll for Taryn's first baby doll! I'm really starting to get into this girl stuff, and it's kinda scaring me! Best part, no frill!

Afterward, I knew Gayle would need to get her TJ fix, so we went downtown b/c Jennifer had never been there before. It was pretty cool. We walked around downtown at the market and ate at T-Bonz. Then we went to Waterfront Park and TJ ran wild! Overall, it was quite nice. I hope Jennifer enjoyed it, even though we didn't really get to give her a good taste of what makes Charleston so cool. Maybe it will make her want to come back and see more...

Well, I'm sure this has already gotten quite long now. I'll try to post some pics soon from the shower. I have to find some that are flattering to me, first! I hope that you all had a wonderful Saturday, that was just as exciting as mine, and I hope that tomorrow is just as great! I'll see you soon! Bye!