Baby Shower

Last night the women of my office had a baby shower for me at Carol's house. The back row, from left to right: Ann, Carol, Kim, and Kristi. The front row, from left to right: Addison, Vivian, me, Kelsey, and Susan. Andrea (Addison and Kelsey's mom) took the picture. Sonja wasn't able to make it because her daughter got a door closed on her hand and had to get 16 stitches earlier in the day. And Leslie was working out of town and unfortunately had a small stroke the day before. She's improving though and it looks like everything is going to be okay.


We all headed over to Carol's house after work. We got the tour of the house first since she and her husband had just moved in a few months ago. The house backs up to the North Boundary Greenway in Oak Ridge where Brian and I biked once before. It's about 50 years old but was just flipped so some things have been redone. There are tons of windows that are impossible to cover with blinds which is neat during the day, but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with at night. Our tour included the reptile room where Carol keeps all her snakes and lizards (she breeds them). The twins were very excited about this. After the tour we had sandwiches, fruit salad, a vegetable platter, and cheesecake to eat. Then it was time to open presents! I got quite a bit of stuff for the baby - especially crib sheets - I got 5! It was a simple shower, no games, which I think we were all happy about.