Showered with kindness from some beautiful women!

This past Sunday my friend Ashley (whom I met while I worked at Circuit City), my friend Virginia (who is a dear friend that I've known for 15 years), and my cousin (and friend!) Julie all threw me a tea-themed baby shower at Ashley's house in Midlothian. It was great fun with great food, decor, and most importantly, great company. There were many ladies that I didn't get to invite because invites went out first to family - so if you are one of those women, please forgive me!


After eating a bit and chatting for a while, we sat down to play a game that most women reading this post, if they've ever been to a baby shower, are probably familiar with. The attendees all have a chance to cut a string to the length that they think will fit around the pregnant lady's belly. Once everyone has cut their string, it is measured against a string that is the actual perimeter of the belly (or sometimes, each string is put to the test around the woman's belly). Although another pregnant lady, due only 4 days after me (my friend Shannon - see post below for belly pics), was present at the shower and had the advantage of measuring her own pregnant belly, Mrs. Wheawill (a very close friend of the Hutcherson family) ended up winning first place! My own mother even commented on Mrs. Wheawill's string length saying that it was waaay too nice and that nice doesn't win (yeah, thanks mom!) Shannon was a very close second. Turns out my belly IS bigger than hers...which is what I suspected :)




Next I opened gifts. Thank you again, everyone! You were all so kind and generous and I love everything! I know Baby Hutch will too.


Finally, we played a guessing game and Ashley took tallies of hands held high for each question she asked (we all had our eyes closed as we voted). The first question was "how many people think Baby Hutch is a boy?" of course followed by "how many people think Baby Hutch is a girl?" An overwhelming majority - 16 people!!! - thought that Baby Hutch was going to be a boy. I wonder though if some people peeked and voted either with the majority or with the mom-to-be :) That left only 1 person who thought Baby Hutch is a girl. Most people I talk to now say they think we're having a boy which leaves me to contemplate where the high number of "girl" guesses came from on this very blog. People that think it's a girl: where are you?!
We also voted on hair color: 7 people thought the baby would be blond, 7 thought brown and 2 thought red. Everyone agreed that the baby wouldn't be less than 7 lbs. and wouldn't reach 9.
Thanks to everyone again for making last Sunday such a special day! We're getting closer to having the nursery ready and will post photos when it's all done :)