Baby shower

Alright, finally time for another blog entry. I was just looking at the blog and realized that the last post was over a month ago. How shameful. I started writing this post early last week, but got busy at work and of course didn't have the energy by the time I got home so it had to wait until the weekend to finish. A lot has happened since then, so here goes. The house construction is coming along, but Brian wrote a a nice detailed post about that. He gets to write about the construction since he is doing all of it. I guess I will start with my surprise baby shower. Was I surprised! I thought that Brian and I were meeting his parents at their house and then the four of us would go out for lunch to celebrate my birthday. On the way, he was getting text messages, but he played them off and I wasn’t suspicious at all. We got to the house and he opened the door, I followed him in and everyone was standing there looking at me. At first I just stood there stunned with my mouth open, then I said “Holy Crap!” as I walked the rest of the way into the room. I just wanted everyone to stop looking at me. As if I wasn’t still reelling from shock of my friends and family all in the same room staring at me, my parents walked into the room! I had no idea they were even in Florida, but of course that was the point. They called me the day before on my birthday from the airport on their way to Florida to wish me a happy birthday and then I talked to them again that evening when they were already at my in-laws house. Sneaky devils. Anyway, when I saw them, I cried. A lot of things were working against me at that moment. I was still reeling from the first surprise, my pregnancy hormones were raging in full force, and of course I was happy to see them. I can’t believe that the party had been in the works pretty much from the moment we announced the pregnancy and no one spilled the beans. I was really impressed! The rest of the party was a blast. It was great to see everyone. Brian and I hadn’t seen a lot of our friends in a while. We have kind of been hermits lately. We have been working on the house and I haven’t had a lot of energy for socializing. How lame. Check out the link for horribly unflattering pictures of me at the shower.