Baby Shower

Last weekend Jason and I had a couples baby shower for Baby Girl Dzubinski. It was a wonderful time getting some of our family and friends together to celebrate with us.

The shower was held at my dad's house and thank goodness. Orginally I was thinking we could have it at our house, but as some of you may or may not know, our house is quite small. We had about 25 people show up, so it would have been jam packed. Our guests included Jason's parents (who made the trip from Midland), his sister, her husband, and their son (from Fort Worth area), and his other sister and her husband (who live in Austin). Of course my Dad was there, since the party was at his house, and my brother was also able to make it in town for the party (from St.Paul). The rest of our guests included friends from the area. It was a great group of people and I think everyone had a wonderful time.

The food included bite size sandwiches (smoked salmon with a cream cheese spread--delicious and my favorite!, chicken salad, and roast beef), a pasta salad, a wonderful fruit salad (woohoo! for summer and yummy fruit), mozzarella with tomato and basil, salami on cucumbers, and of course--chips and salsa. For desert we had a wonderful Tres Leches Coconut cake from Russell's Bakery in Austin.


After everyone ate some food and before we dove into the desert we had to play at least one game. Of course as many of you might know, baby shower games are often very silly and catered more to the "woman only" showers. So we decided to play: Blind Baby Food Tasting. I have to say it was really hilarious, just to see people's facial reactions to some of the foods and then what people wrote down for the flavor. I think the one that stumped everyone was called: Ham, Pineapple, and Rice (it was as awful as it sounds). Our friend Pam Ross won the game and so she got to feed Jason a bite of whatever favor she wanted (can you guess? Ham, Pineapple, Rice made another appearance). I would recommend this game to anyone having or throwing a baby shower, especially if it is a couple's shower. Everyone played and had a great time laughing their heads off.

After the game we got to the cake and the presents. We got some wonderful things from everyone. Of course it's always great to get some essentials for the baby-- a mattress, a high chair, a diaper bag-- but we also received a huge amount of clothes, that are all to cute to even describe. I have to say Baby Dzubinski is going to be one fashionable lady.

The shower was wonderful and we are both so thankful to everyone who was able to make it. We are so excited about the baby being here soon and are so happy we have such a great supportive group of family and friends surrounding us.

P.S. Of course Jason had to try one of the gifts out on Bella when we got home--this is the baby carrier from our friends Anuj and Pam...