3 Things

Baby Shower. Bloody lip. Tossing my cookies.

What do these three things have in common? They all happened on Saturday! And in that order. I'll give details on the first two. Sound good?

Saturday morning I gave a shower for my wonderful friend Kristin. She is due January 5 with her first (a boy also!) and I'm so excited for her! We had a great turnout and I think everyone had fun. It was pretty much just people in our ward which was fun because we all knew each other. We had brunchy kind of food like quiche, coffee cake, and fruit. Yum! My friend Laurie helped which was great - she brought the fruit and did all the games. Hallelujah! Anyway, it was a success. I'm glad it went so well and that she got so many great things.

I kept forgetting to take pictures, so most of these are from the very beginning or the very end.

Kristin opening gifts:

Me, Laurie, and Kristin:

Jeremy was sweet to take Eli and another little boy over to a nearby playground during the shower. And he even took a couple pictures. Wow. Thank you dear!

Just as Kristin and Laurie were leaving (the last of the group), Eli fell and busted his lip open. :( Poor buddy. We had the door open because they were leaving and he grabbed his shoes to go outside and was backing up and fell down the step and bonked the side of his face which made his bottom lip slam into his top tooth. There was a lot of blood and tears, but he's doing much better now. Lucky for us, Laurie is a nurse, so she took a look at it and said we'd be fine to take him in and get it stitched/glued or to just leave it. He was super tired and traumatized, so we decided to just leave it be. I think that was a good choice, and it seems to be healing pretty quickly and he's much happier now. He's been refusing to stand still for pictures lately, but he fell asleep on the way home from the grocery store today, so I snapped a shot on my phone. It's much less bloody and gross now, so you're welcome.

Anyway, so Eli zonked out about 5 minutes after the incident - he always sleeps well after being traumatized, poor guy - and we just enjoyed vegging during the 3 hours that he napped. It had been a long time since we just chilled on a Saturday afternoon. That night, something we ate didn't agree with me at all, so I was a bit sick, but once it was gone I felt great! Then we watched the new Karate Kid. It was fun! And it made us reminisce about the old one. Good times....

So that was our Saturday! Now we're enjoying our heater and our hot chocolate since it dropped about 20 degrees from the weekend. It sure feels like fall!