Busy Busy

It's been a busy month so far. Since Valentine's Day we've been busy looking for a job for Allen since his job at Texaco didn't work out. He was let go because he wasn't working enough hours...I'm sorry, but I have to laugh at this. He didn't have enough hours because his boss wouldn't schedule him for more than one day a week. MONTHS ago he told his boss that he would be starting school in January and that it would take up his evenings. So he would be able to work during the week during the day, and anytime on the weekends. His boss said "Sure, no problem. We can work with that. Just remind me a couple weeks before you start so we can adjust the scheduling." SO, a couple weeks before, just like she asked, Allen reminded her that he'd be starting school and that he needed hours during the day. She got all pushed out of shape and said that SHE worked the day hours and wasn't willing to give him any of her hours. As, a result, he got scheduled every Saturday evening, IF that. And then, out of nowhere, she let him go. So here we are again, desperately looking for work for Allen. It's been fun, let me tell ya. lol

For the past month or so, my mind has been preoccupied with planning a baby shower for a good friend of mine. I had never planned a baby shower before and, this being her first child, and my first experience as host of a baby shower, I wanted everything to be perfect. I made a diaper cake like 2 months ago, I bought decorations a couple weeks priof, I had planned out the food about a month before, etc. etc. Then I just had to wait until the day before, before I could actually start getting things ready. Everything usually has to fall into place the night before or the day of. At that point, you just hope everything goes ok. Which it did.

Everyone that said they would come, came. All the food I had planned out, worked out great. The set up with the decorations and the seating worked perfectly. And everyone had a great time, including the guest of honor, Latissa Graham. She got a ton of wonderful presents for her little boy.

Even after being up all night sick sick sick, and hosting the party with a fever, I think I did an OK job of hosting and things went quite well.

Here are a few pics from the party:

Pic #1: The diaper cake I made for her

Pic #2: The guest of honor, Latissa Graham

Pic #3: The cupcake tree

Pic #4: The food table and decorations

Pic #5: The counter display(diaper cake and scrapbook papers for "advice for the new mommy")

Pic #6: The whole group of ladies that came to share the special day(THANKS GIRLS!)