Pomona Baby Shower

This past weekend Gabe's sister, Lillian, threw me and Gabe's sister-in-law, Claudia, a joint baby shower up in Pomona. Claudia is 3 1/2 weeks behind me and also having a boy! The shower was really nice. I wasn't sure what to expect since I haven't met most of Gabe's extended family, but everyone was so gracious and generous.

Here's the two pregnant ladies at the start of the shower. Yeah, I'm only 3 1/2 weeks ahead of Claudia and you can barely tell she's pregnant, and me, well I'm on baby belly (and face, arms,legs, boobs and ass) overdrive. Oh well, at least I'm rockin' my dress!

We sat outside for most of the shower, enjoying food, games and conversation, but when it came time to open the gifts we moved into the air conditioned house. By the way, air conditioning seems to diminish in power when there are 30 plus women crammed into one room. I was sweating like a pregnant pig in heat (or maybe that was my nerves kickin it).

It was a crazy experience opening gifts as Claudia and I did it at the same time. Which was good and bad. Good because it kept the focus off of me to a minimum but bad because I couldn't see what cool gifts Claudia was getting. Oh, and as much as I loved all the gifts (cute onsies and baby things), I had the hardest time thanking people because I had just met most of them 2 hours prior and didn't remember names. (Or it could have also been due to the fact that a lot of the ladies had the same names...Gloria, Liz, Della, Maria!). So I did a lot of smiling and thanking to the air!

As I mentioned, everyone was so generous with the baby gifts. Here are a few of my favorites:

A Hooded Cat Towel that my good friend Sara made (she was there to support me meeting all the family along with my sister, Moira, and mom). Sara's one creative cat! Ha!

A Dodger themed Diaper Cake. I don't think the pictures do it justice. It was magnificent. besides diapers, there were little Nikes, and Pullover Sweaters just like Gabe wears, socks and booties, and bottles, and so much more. Now anyone who knows me knows I'm not a Dodgers fan, but I let it slide because Gabe's sister Lillian is the one who made it, and two I'm hoping my family/friends at the shower I have down in San Diego bring some Padres/Chargers pride to balance it out!

One of my other favorite items was a Jungle Animal babies book my mom quilted. Unfortunately we didn't get a picture of it. My mom even made Claudia a Mother Goose Rhymns one. Everyone loved them!

After all the hooplah of the marathon gift opening, everyone headed over to the cupcake lion and alligator dessert before heading home for the evening. Pretty cool huh?

Overall I have to say I had a really nice day and felt very lucky to have Gabe, my family and now his extended family and friends a part of my circle. And do you know what is really cool? I get to do the baby shower all over again in San Diego in another week when my sisters and best friends throw me one. See...pretty lucky!