Last Saturday, I attended my very first baby shower. While this is an event not often attended by men, it was a surprise for Jennifer and I had the task of getting her there without spoiling it. I’m pleased to say that she was completely surprised…though she doesn’t like to admit it! I have to say it did present it’s challenges at one point I thought I was going to have to spill the beans. Read on for all the details…
My excuse to get her out of the house was a lunch date. The shower was slated for 1pm at our church, so my initial plan was to leave the house at about 11am and drive over to Southcenter to eat a leisurely lunch at Bahama Breeze. My brilliant plan was to say that I had to swing by church to do something for the website! 
Needless to say 11am came and went and we were nowhere near ready. Jenn began to get a little suspicious because it was a Saturday and I wanted to stick to a schedule. This is an oddity in our household and for me in particular. Anyway, we ended up leaving the house at about 12:40, and with traffic and construction we were about 30 minutes late. Thankfully everyone waited for us. When we got there I opened the door and everyone yelled “SURPRISE!!”. Jenn was totally surprised. Apparently, my acting was so flawless she originally thought that I wasn’t in on it and had been surprised too. 
The party was well planned and we had a spaghetti lunch and enjoyed visiting with all of the church women. After lunch I tried my hand at a surprisingly difficult baby pin/rice game. I had to wear a blindfold and had 60 second to try to pick out safety pins from a bowl of rice. You really can’t feel the difference between baby pins and grains of rice so I was only able to get 1 pin. Finally, we got to open up all of Baby Pip’s gifts. She got a lot of nice stuff from bottles and bibs to towels and teething rings. We were thoroughly buried in pink! I was pleased to see that Jennifer had such a great time. She was so appreciative and somewhat teary-eyed at this loving expression from the wonderful women of our church. Check out all the photos in the media albums.