Good Times!!!

It has been a busy and eventful week, that's for sure. The occasion that caused all this activity was my Grand daughter's baby shower. Daughter Susie and her daughter Maggie flew in from New Hampshire Thursday morning, Dian and I decided to find Trader Joe's before she landed so I set my alarm for 6 AM......Mercy that was early. We found the store and did I ever have fun!! I had received a substantial gift card from there from Susie at Christmas so I shopped with abandon!! I got food (frozen & already prepared) for at least 20 meals as well as a bunch of snacks....boy was that ever fun!

We then went back to Jocelyn's house to pick up Brooke and Wait for the call from Susie telling us she had landed.....and she did...right on time. Picked up Susie and Maggie and continued on over to Dian's and Marcia was already there. Dian was baking cupcakes and Marcia was working on the table cloths for the shower. We dove right in and helped with the table cloths...Marcia had found a lot of white sheets at the Children's Hospital thrift store near where she works - More than enough for our purposes for only $5!! Then she found some flannel with monkeys printed on it for the center of the table. They were turned into about 16" squares......(The theme for the day was Monkeys) So Susie and I

hemmed the cloths with stitch witchery.....The center squares will serve as burp cloths.. Dian had already baked cookies in the shape of bananas -- she found d the cookie cutter on-line as well as bright yellow coloring...then all of us back to Jocelyn's for some pizza and relaxing. Unfortunately Jocelyn had to work both Thursday and Friday... Girls all spent the night there and I went home....to set my alarm again for 6 AM.

Friday we decorated the cupcakes - turned them into monkeys, actually, with the help of some 'Nilla wafers, Chocolate mint candies, and food coloring . They were really cute. The bananas were frosted with yellow butter-cream and trimmed with brown lines...so cute, I am going to try to put some pictures here....wish me luck!..

Well, I can't figure it out....I will get some help later and try again.

The shower was held in the "party room" of the Round Table Pizza where Marcia is the manager. Once you got in there you'd never know it was a pizza parlor! There was a montage of pictures of Brooke from birth through now playing on a TV....Dian worked on that and don't ask me how she did it....but it was terrific. There were balloons and the pictures on the wall were covered in gift wrap and had her name sprawled across the wall. The dollar store had little plush monkeys which were put on the tables as favors. Also on the tables were water bottles where the labels were torn off and stickers saying: "Brooke will find Motherhood so refreshing! Thanks for coming!"

Her gift pile was HUGE! Lots of monkey themed stuff, of course. lots of diapers (there was a drawing for bringing them) and lots of nice things......to put it mildly.

So now it is Sunday...back to normal. Susie flew out this morning....It was so wonderful she was able to come . Next week is looking quiet, which is nice. I'll work on the picture thing!