It was a party kind of day!

Well...for me at least!! Howie: notsomuch!

I had a baby shower to attend for my friend (and blog reader) Tiffany. We met in Maui, in May on the managers trip...and continued getting to know each other...she helped us clean the old place up...I've given her all of SamSam's baby clothes...and she's just awesome! So, today we celebrated her lifetime souvenir from Maui...a baby due Feb 5th! How awesome is that?!?!?!! ALMOST makes me want to go somewhere exotic and make another bundle of joy....ALMOST....but thankfully, that can't ever happen!!! (Don't worry honey...I'm not getting any kind of fever!!)

Anyways....got up this morning to the leech that DJ is again...I swear, it's a wonder he doesn't fall off the bed for the little room he has to lay beside me....he's literally hanging on to me for dear life!! Which is why I wake up...the arm he's holding is now sound asleep! Not a pleasant feeling to wake up to! Quite odd actually! The other reason I was awake at 5 somethingorother was the damn cat scratching at our door for a drink of water!!! I don't know WHY she thinks OUR faucet is the best one to drink from...but man its getting old!!!! I think I'm going to leave a glass of water out for her and see if that stops the morning scratches. It woke Howie up and he got up, so I rolled DJ over into his spot...and we both fell back to sleep til after 8.

Knowing it was going to be a busy day, I got up when he did...no lollygagging today! Fed them breakfast and jumped in the shower. I even shaved my legs!!! Such an occasion! LOL *remember how when you're a teenager and you couldn't fathom going a whole three days without shaving....yeah, that all changes when you get older!*

The shower was in Lake Stevens...about 40 mins from me...and I took off shortly after 10...had to get gas in the Jetta....but I made it for minutes after 11! Not the first...but definitely not the last to arrive!! All of us were to send in a picture of ourselves for a scrap book for the baby...turns out, we had to make our own pages!!! Not being scrapbook savvy...I was a little freaked out and took my time doing up my page...and watching everyone else's creativity just flow! Thankfully some of the other gals were geniuses and I could copy them here and there! In the end, I think my page turned out CUTE!!! *DUH, I should've taken a pic of it!!! My bad!*

The gifts were SOOOOOOOO cute!!!!! Man, some of the cute stuff they've come out with is just darling!!! And I only had my baby 20 months ago!!!! what the heck!?!?! She sure did get showered tho with tonnes of gifts! Lucky little girl and mama!!!

After the shower I raced home to get ready for Howie's work party. It was close to 2:40 when I arrived and we needed to leave as close to 3 as possible! HA!!!!!! Howie still had to shower and I still had to do my hair and make-up....and pack up the kids' stuff....so when Howie was trying to rush me, I put him to task packing up the diaper bag and loading the kids up....he still beat me!! And still rushed me! He doesn't understand the work of art it is to transform oneself into a glam woman! HA HA HA

In any case, we dropped the kids off at my SIL's house in Lynnwood and headed to Bellevue for the party...got a wee bit disoriented (read: lost!) trying to find the center where the party was being held...and my crackberry came to the rescue!! Searched out the Maydenbauer and found the address! And lo and behold, we weren't too far from it!! LOL

Dinner was buffet and it was fabulous! My mother would be proud of me...I tried this cranberry walnut quinoa (NO clue what it was) and it was so-so....way too much onion and far too mushy for my liking! But I at least tried it! They had this spring leaf/goat cheese/bacon/sun dried tomato salad that was HEAVENLY!!!!! I discovered earlier this year that goat cheese is really fabulous!!! Nice and creamy and bold in flavour! YUM! The meats were standard...salmon in a brown sugar glaze (it was alright, I prefer fresh caught tho! I'm spoiled that way!) and chicken that was wrapped around figs (do NOT like figs I found out!) and roast prime rib (DELISH!!) I only had the steamed veggies and skipped the mashed potatoes, bread stuffing, and roast winter veggies.

The dessert buffet was different...you could tell they were frozen before hand as they were way too perfect and still very chilled! I had probably the most delicious pecan pie I've ever had tho! And nabbed two HUGE sugar cookies for the kids...one's a tree and the other is a snowman!

We were given a 500.00 chip (no, not real! Or I'd be 1000.00 richer!!) to play the casino with, but when that opened up, it got very congested and there was no where to play! In the end, we gave our chips to Tiffany to play the roulette with.

OHHHHHHHHHHH she gave me a gift...Tiffany that is....a bottle of Deodorizing Bedding Powder *For dogs who want to smell as good as they look*...as she knows that Snickers still stinks pretty bad...Its got baking powder, ground lavender, rosemary, essential oils of lavender, cedarwood, balsam, fir, peppermint (I can really smell the mint) and lemongrass. You're supposed to shake it on the carpets, or animal bedding and then vacuum off. She also told me I could put it right on her and brush her out...

Let me tell you...after getting changed out of the fancy duds (Sorry, no pix Fiona...forgot the camera!) and getting the kids (who were wide awake when we picked them up at 10pm!) settled I got right down to business with the bottle of talc! And she didn't seem to mind the attention one bit! I sprinkled it ALL over her and her bedding and what a change! Instantly, I could smell the difference!!!!!

Tiffany...I can't thank you enough!!!!!

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OK...off to bed I go!!!

Til next time...ciao!