I’m killing time at the moment, waiting for my parents, my in-laws’ and a few of his aunts and uncles to get here. Nothing special, just dinner, cake, and some presents. The kid has never officially had a party before, though. I had ideas for this year but couldn’t work anything out, maybe next year will materialize something more extravagant.

Ah, but it seems like only yesterday…

Boy, he was pretty tiny then!

So, anyway, happy birthday to my little boy… the one who’s laughing at me now, saying, “What, Mommy!?” I can’t wait to see his reaction to that cake! :) It turned out awesome, he’s going to love it!

Even though the games weren’t my department, I did end up doing multimedia for two games, but that was okay. They turned out cute. The first was a musical thing where we played a clip of a song and the guests got a point for guessing the artist, the song, then there were bonus points if they could pick out which three of the songs are going to be in the wedding. A possible 69 points, the highest score was 22, haha, I absolutely stumped them with a few.

The other was not really a game so much for the guests but before hand I had taped my brother-in-law-to-be (biltb), asking him 15 questions. My sister then had to answer the same questions (they were about him, you see), then we played his response on the big screen. She got 8 out of 15, haha. Everyone got a kick out of it, though.

But yeah, the shower was a good size, I think, about 30 people besides myself, but it wasn’t huge. We had a couple of solid groups of people: family from my dad’s side; family from my mom’s side; friends of my sister; biltb’s mom, sister, step-mom; and some other friends from church or family friends. I guess I was considered the main hostess, which is fine, but I always kick myself later, thinking I wasn’t a good hostess. I try to make sure I get a chance to talk to everyone — even when I’m not a hostess, like with my brother’s recent graduation party — but that’s not always possible, it seems. So later I think, “oh, I should have spent more time talking to so-and-so,” or “I hope so-and-so didn’t think I was rude/unfriendly,” etc. I dunno. I’m just too insecure, I guess.

Oh, one, thing, too, is it’s hard to talk to people you don’t know. Especially when those people look so familiar but you can’t place them. One girl I kept thinking I know her from somewhere and I went over to my friend and asked her if that was the girl that was in that play with her husband, A Streetcar Named Desire, playing the wife. She looked and said she wasn’t sure, but she looked familiar. But then I didn’t get a chance to talk to the girl — they came really late and were some of the first to leave. Ahhh but just got a text back from my sister and she says, nope, not the same girl. :P

The cake up there, though? Matches my bridesmaid’s dress, haha.

Um so there was a little gathering – mostly family – for one of my sisters-in-law who just graduated college with her Bachelor’s degree. It was pretty fun, though boring in the retelling I think. :)

Took some photos though, of course (!), including one of Goth Elijah:

Yeah, her school colors were red and black, so the bottom border of the cake was black icing. :) This stuff was hard to clean off him, too, haha.

Ummm… so very typical of me. I started this post hours ago then forgot about it so. Goodnight. :)

Friday we got our photos taken for our church’s directory. We had to pick one of the three of us to be in the directory and sent to us as a free 8×10 but I hate hate hated the photos they took of just me and Steve so I turned that down. But the ones of Elijah alone were freaking adorable. That kid totally turned on the charm in there. I was so surprised, I thought he was going to be a little terror, but he was such a little ham. So we ordered an 8×10 of the one of him. I’ll have to find a place in the living room for it. But in the photo to your left, you can see him posing – I took that with my cell phone.


My hair is red again. Very red. Though not quite as red as you see in the photo anymore. It was dyed three times in two days. On Wednesday I totally made it red – like you see there – I haven’t had a red color do that to me before. Then on Thursday my friend toned it down a bit for me. It’s still very red but at least now it looks more natural. I tell you what though. I should have seen it coming. I know they say it’s not indicative of the final product, but usually when I do my hair red (which hasn’t really been like I used to, since before I got pregnant) the actual dye would be purple in color. This stuff was so freaking red that I could have filmed the movie Psycho in my shower when I rinsed it out. It seriously looked like blood. I wish I’d had my camera in there, it was quite funny. Took forever though.

And now… I decided to move everything else I wanted to talk about to a new post later, so… yeah, that’s it. :)

Mayhem.

And that’s what it was this evening. We were only there for about 3 hours, but it felt like a lot longer than that. During that time, I witnessed many things including Elijah being pushed down by a two-year old almost the second we got there which later resulted in knock down, drag out fights between Elijah, that two year old, and the three year old over several toys – mostly trucks and toddler riding vehicles, and a very messy one-year old… can we say cake?

Ah, I thought I was going to go crazy before the night was over!

And now I remember why we didn’t throw E a first birthday party…