Goodbyes Stink!

My mother called me this morning and told me my blog was really boring. I know! So I am going to attempt at catching up. I'll start recent and go backwards, so you'll have to scroll through if you want to catch up on all of our "happenings". Which you do, of course! ;-)

WARNING! SAD SAPPY POST AHEAD!

On Tuesday we had to say goodbye to some dear friends. My friend Hollie moved to Arizona! Her husband has been working there for a year so it will be so good for them to be together, but we will miss them dearly. Especially Katie. Lauren is one of Katie's very best in the universe friends. One of those friends that you only find a few times in a lifetime. Before they left I got some pictures of Katie, Lauren, and Oakley. These are the sweetest most wonderful girls! I am so glad that these are Katie's best ever friends. When they left and Katie and Lauren hugged I heard Katie say "I'm sad" and Lauren said "I'm sad too" and every time I think about it I start to bawl, like right now. Excuse me while I go get a tissue... The thing that makes it tolerable is that nearly all of Hollie's family live right around our area. Hence, lots of visits! And Hollie, I better know about every one of them. We wish you all the luck in Arizona! Don't melt and we'll see you soon. Love you! (And yes I will be sending you these darling pictures!)

Party Time 2

I wanted to post some pics from the baby shower of the ladies having fun, so here's an additional baby shower post.

Party Time!

Today we held a baby shower for Hailey and Jaxon at the Firth City Hall building. Not to toot my own horn, but it was SO FUN! My mother and I have been planning it forever it seems, so it feels really good to have it over, but it turned out great. The decorations were so cute and the food was yummy! We started out with a candy bar game: match the candy bar name to the pregnancy term. Conception = Skor, Delivery = PayDay, Hospital Bill = 100 Grand and so on. Then we had a Relay Race. #1 had to fold a pile of baby clothes, #2 found a pacifier in a bucket of packing peanuts with their feet, #3 had to run with a balloon between their ankles, and #4 drank apple juice out of a baby bottle. We were all laughing so hard! And Grandma Skillings - you cheat!! She took the nipple off after a couple of sucks and just drank it! Our last game was to get a plastic baby out of an ice cube. Without sucking on it or crushing it. Most of the ice cubes instantly were placed in the cleavage, I won't mention where Briannie put hers!! Bad girl! Then we opened presents and had a light lunch. We served Italian pasta salad, my 12 layer jello - in coordinating colors with the party, rolls and a yummy punch. Dessert was cupcakes that looked like rattles and the ladies got to fill little containers with candy from the centerpieces to take home as a thank you. We filled canning jars with assorted blue, green, and yellow candies. I told the ladies that they could fill their containers after they ate and as soon as I went to help with food there was a "rush" to the candy. Girls like candy, what do you do! We had a blast! Love you Hailey and Jaxon!