Showers of Blessings

We went to Interlachen this past weekend. One of my nieces, Heather, had a house warming/birthday/wedding shower this weekend. We had such a good time. Their apartment reminded me of when Rusty and I first moved in together. It's clean, organized, and has all kinds of cool gadgets. I guess when kids come into the mix, all of the cute trinkets and expensive items get put away. Heather had some really good food at the party! You know, I'm ALWAYS up for some really good food. This was the beginning of a really interesting day full of sugar. You can see the cake that Heather gave Rachel! Heather's answer, you ask? "What?! She said she wanted a BIG piece!!" Don't worry, girlie!! I'll get you one day...

After everyone ate TONS of food, Heather opened her gifts. I have never understood people that open gifts ever so GINGERLY like they're going to SAVE the paper for another time. RIP INTO IT, GIRL!! It's all part of the fun! See, Sam knows how to do it! He decided to let everyone wear one of the bows on their heads!!

After STUFFING ourselves at Heather's party, we headed back to Interlachen where Sherry's baby shower was to be held. If you have ever been to Interlachen for ANY type of event, you would know that food is ALWAYS present. I know that I couldn't even stuff even the smallest piece of food into my stomach after Heather's party. The kids had already had SO much sugar they were bouncing of walls that didn't even exist!!!

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Sherry, yet another niece in the "Corley Clan", is due to have her baby, Mitchel, towards the end of the month, but she looks like she is just about to POP!! I see her, and I realize that I can't complain. We did a "baby bump" that nearly killed both of us, but we were able to recover in time for the picture!! Whew!

Sherry got SO many baby boy clothes, it's not even funny! It reminded me of Sam's baby shower and all of the wonderfully cute outfits that we got! I can't say that this is limited to the "Corleys" because my Mom does it as well, but here's Sherry, sitting with all of the wonderful gits that are ready to be ripped in to, and she GINGERLY opens each one of them! AHHHHH!!! Will these people never understand? The whole fun in getting a gift is being able to rip it apart!!!

We decided that because of all of the sugar the kids had eaten, we would "run" them. We had to load them up in the car soon to go home (200 miles away), and there is NO way that I was going to manage to sit in the car with 2 kids on a serious sugar high! So, we ran them!

There were balloons there that the kids had a blast playing with, I mean...popping!! You can see Sam chasing this one around trying to kick it. Beth put it best...Do you see a Charlie Brown moment here, or what?!

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The best part of the weekend would have to be getting to see Cody. We SO look forward to our visits with him! Rachel and Sam cherish him and admire him so much. It sickens me that he can't be with us all of the time, but we are so thankful for the time that we DO get. We can only pray that Cody continues to be such a good role model for his younger brother and sisters. That is a blessing all on its own.

Note - I stole all of these pictures from Beth! Thanks for being on the ball, Boppy!