Well, she said that she wanted to put together a luncheon for us, just a small get together with a few of my close friends for a special day just for Jacob. She told me repeatedly that it was going to be a small thing, and to not expect much. She wasn't going to decorate or anything, just lunch at some restaurant. LIAR!!!!! This girl managed to keep everything a total surprise from me.
I started the day off a little upset, honestly. I am not big on surprises...I actually hate them, in fact. I don't even like not knowing what my Christmas presents are! I was kept completely in the dark about everything up to that point, and Dave told me that morning that I could not wear a dress. In my emotionally pregnant state, I was devastated! I had planned on wearing a dress...that is what you wear to baby showers!! Not to mention I don't have many things that FIT anymore other than dresses! Pretty much all of my maternity clothes are plain t-shirt like tops, and I have NO pants other than jeans that fit...I was supposed to wear a t-shirt and jeans to my baby's shower?? Then he told me that I couldn't wear open toed shoes. This is where I really started to lose it! It was like 90 degrees outside, and now I have to wear sneakers?? This may all sound totally stupid, but I am very particular about certain etiquette, and I just didn't want to show up to his special day looking like a tomboy when everyone else was looking all cute! Plus I was hormonally emotional that morning anyhow.
I could not fathom a shower scenario where an 8 month pregnant girl would need anything more than a dress and some flip flops! He made it sound like I was going to be be doing a mud-run or something! So, figuring that Dave didn't know what he was taking about, I started texting my friends to ask what to wear!! I ended up in jeans and flops with a semi-nice maternity top that I forgot I had, and I curled my hair to make be feel more gussied up.
After i finally got myself together, Dave and Ryan drove me out to this gorgeous house with a big pond out front. Dave told me that my day would start with a golf cart ride...how fun is that?! So I had no idea whose house we are at, and they put me in a golf cart and drove me through a pasture and out to a sweet little barn where Jayme and a few of my friends were sitting on pillow-covered hay bales. I was so confused at first! There was all of this yummy looking food sitting on top of a big cage that had REAL roosters inside! And they were talking a LOT!
our rooster friends :)
There were donkeys right on the other side of the barn hee-hawing and cows coming up to see what was going on. There was a rocking chair in the middle of all of the hay bales that was draped with the (way overpriced) baby blankie that I told Dave I wanted so terribly bad for Jacob. The more I looked around, somehow, the more confused I became. I mean, I understood that this was Jacob's shower, but...
1-where WERE we??
2-did Jayme do ALL of this all by herself just for us??
3-and how did she manage to so perfectly fabricate this exact perfect scenario for me, without me saying a word to suggest any of this??
4-I thought we were going out to eat?? I thought she wasn't decorating??
Well, she got me. It was beautiful. It was more of a "sprinkle" than a shower, since we already had a couple of big showers with our first baby and did not need a lot of stuff this time around. It was so understated, but so thoroughly detailed. There were no tacky shower games that we've all played a hundred times. Just awesome food, tons of character, beautiful scenery, a few gifts, and my good friends just hanging out in a barn. :)
the barn!
the beautiful hostess!!
utensils and napkins stuffed into mason jars, which were our drinking glasses!
strawberries and shortcake favors, Jacob's special baby book to sign
Ice cream in jars
a few of Jake's gifts
Ryan stayed long enough to nab several strawberries
Jordie and Kenzie
lovely Katie
giving Jacob a hand opening his gifts
Oh, and the owners of the place, Jayme didn't even know them! She said she just drove around one day looking for a nice barn to have the shower in, and after a dozen rejections, this man just said "well, my tractor is in that barn...but I guess I could move it! Sure, why not?" hahaha!! She is much more outgoing than I am, CLEARLY!!
We had sweet tea, lemonade, and water to drink out of mason jars. The food was laid out in cast iron skillets and woven baskets lined with pretty plaid fabric. Jayme is a really good cook, so all of the food was amazing! The favors were sweet little baskets full of fresh strawberries and homemade shortcakes. Jayme sewed pillows to sit on on top of the hay bales that Dave "rented" from Ace Hardware (he went and bought all this hay, then returned it right after the party!)
We ate and hung out, talked and laughed. Everyone signed Jake's special baby journal and I opened everyone's sweet gifts. My friend Molly, who has 2 boys and is done having kids, gave us an entire wardrobe of awesome hand-me-downs...she gives THE BEST hand-me-downs!! A few people had to leave a little early, but then the rest of us stayed and just chatted for over an hour until Dave and Ryan came back to pick us up. I had SO much fun. I don't ever want to forget ANY of it!!
~rs
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