Sewing and showers

A good friend of mine surprised me about 9 months ago when she told me she was expecting.  You see, she was always on the fence and then one night she dropped the bomb! I couldn't have been more excited.

We threw a shower for her last night and it was great!  We all like good food, good drinks and good desserts.  So we decided we would make a variety of her favorite items.  It consisted of homemade gourmet pizza's, salad, chocolate cream pie and nectarine/berry pie from Random order, and lil' mamma cookies.  DELISH! 

Two Tarts- Lil' Mamma cookies

Random Order- Chocolate Cream Pie

Random Order- Berry Pie

I had spotted some cute flag banners awhile back.  Just needed the perfect excuse to make one.  So yes, I have been sewing, it was a fun/quick project.

her and her hubby make bacon, so the pig bookends were perfect!

If you live in PDX and haven't been to Random order to try their pie's, truly your missing out...and if you haven't been to Two Tarts to try their cookies... I'm not sure we could be friends ;)  Put both of these on your 'must do' lists and thank me later.

No way!

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I'll be completely honest...I thought for sure I was having another boy!  I felt that it might have been a girl in the beginning but one night I saw a blue blanket in my dream and woke up with a strong feeling it was a boy.  You have to understand, that I have a strong intuition and its been correct too many times to doubt it. 

Brandon and I went into our appointment fully convinced it was a boy so when she went to the nether region I kept looking for a boy part (they are SO obvious on an ultrasound) and I didn't see it, so then I thought...maybe it needs to pop up or something (which I know it doesn't), and then I worried what if our child hasn't made up its mind yet and its an IT!  But low and behold it was a GIRL! Shocked, so shocked I couldn't even get excited!

As the night has worn on, I've gotten more and more excited.  Same with Brandon.  Crazy I tell ya!

As a side note...I've been sewing a little.  Have some projects (aprons) that I've been talking about for months and haven't done much with more done than they were a few weeks ago and have a quick project to whip up this weekend for my girlfriends shower. She is due in 3 weeks, and doesn't know what she is having.  You people who don't find out have serious, serious will power!

I'll post pics soon of these fun projects.