Baby Shower Pics!!!

Today was Cedric's baby shower! :-) Michele's first as the guest of honor and my first...period.

Our friends, Amanda and Jackie, hosted the event at Michele's parents' house. I'd brought over my Wii and put a whole slew of pictures and music on it and ran the slideshow. Several of us had fun watching while we waited for other family and friends to come over. We also had fun with Amanda's 5-month-old, Isabelle. :-)

After the arrivals, we started up with some 12-player WarioWare. This is a new Wii game and the original reason for bringing it over. It was frantic mini-game action and everyone had a blast for a couple rounds. Amanda also started up our first game: We each wore pins and were not allowed to say the word 'baby'. If you did and someone called you out. you had to give your pin to that person.

In the saddest thing ever,immediately when she announced the game and I was in the kitchen getting some veggies in me, I said aloud as I walked back in to the living room, "I'm so excited, my first baby shower game ever!" Shannon, the only other married-into-the-Ross-family member nabbed me and within 3 seconds I had already lost. :-(

I would win two more later though. Poor Michele, however, lost ALL THREE of her pins while opening gifts -- which was the next thing.

We got so much good stuff, everyone did a wonderful job! :-) Her parents went to town. I think they got just about everything, haha. Our friends Mobat and Athena got us a beautiful Winnie the Pooh blanket that had the name "Cedric Shea" inscribed on it. Humorously, I didn't even know about the name inscription until after the shower -- I had been too busy filming to see it. :-)

Chris and Theresa from New York sent us a pair of baby slings. One for the skip, and one to hold the baby in front. Very nice!

Andy and Corinne got us a couple things, one being a Denver Broncos baby blanket. Sch-weet. :-)

We also got great stuff from Chris and Shannon and Kevin. Thanks everyone!!

We then played game #2. Picking out safety pins out of a bowl of rice. I actually failed to get any within 30 seconds my first try. Mercifully, I begged to try again later and got 4. Corinne was the clear champ -- she got 10! The next highest was indeed 4! GEEEESH!

Afterwards, we went back upstairs for cake and then played Wii Sports. Michele's mom got really into it, actually winning the bowling competition. Maybe we'll get them one for her birthday! ;-)

The rest of the pics are of me and Michele without our hosts. Thanks for the wonderful event!!