Friday, May 21st: The Most Awesome Girlfriends Baby Shower EVER!

So right when we found out about Cooper my AWESOME girlfriends went into over drive starting to plan a shower. They waited till the birth mother handed Cooper over to the agency and signed the paperwork... then they were off planning away! They planned the shower for Friday night.. at the time it all sounded so perfect! The shower would be the night before we got Coop and we would be ready... HAHAHAHAHA... as you know we got Coop a little early... But I was still VERY excited!
Since all the guys had also planned to take Michael to Buffalo Wild Wings, it was a matter of who was gonna keep Cooper. My wonderful mother in law offered to stay and keep him so my mother could go with me.
Mr.Daffin (Michael's Step-Dad) also came and got to meet Cooper for the first time.

Here is Mr and Mrs Daffin with Michael and Cooper!

Mrs. Daffin with Michael and Cooper

I love this picture!
PaPa, Dar-Dar, Dee-Dee, and Granddaddy JB!

I knew I was in for a wonderful time, but it was hard leaving Cooper. This was the first time I left him at night. I showered him with many kisses and gave him much love before I left.

Mom and I finally said our many goodbyes and headed the few miles over to Whitney's house. I was very excited when I got there and my Olexa's Dar went crazy when I walked in the door.. In my head I heard....ninininininininin... and then it got faster and faster until I walked in the dining room and saw a beautiful site..... An Olexa's Cake with Coop's monogram... This is my favorite cake and my girlfriends knew that... Way to Go Girls!

The wonderful girls who threw together this awesome shower in a matter of days..
My Hostesses:
L to R: Whitney Hardy, Sarah Hearn, Maghan Craig (with Addison), Cortney McKinney, Me, and Mandy Iffland. Ashley Cosby was also a hostess, but was not able to be there (tell me that is not love!)
I can NEVER thank these girls enough! They are all so dear to me!

Group Shot (with the cake of course).. We had some friends who did not make the shot and my mother was taking the photo!

The food was wonderful.. There was homemade casseroles, salad, bread.. all the good southern food we all love!

Like I said the food was wonderful, but the best part was yet to come! I stood over Whitney as she was cutting the cake.. I blamed it on taking the picture, but really I just wanted a piece...quickly!Katie, Mandy (with Baby Tate in Tummy), Kristin, Kinnery, and Maghan.. All enjoying the yum, yum, yum, yum... did I say YUM Cake!

Sitting around finishing our food and talking! Everyone is looking at me.....I am sure I was talking about Cooper!

Brooke and Mary Jane playing with Addison

Momma and I

Valerie and I
Valerie is a very dear friend of mine from Montgomery. She has been there for me through everything and has been a wonderful friend. I was so very thrilled she drove all the way from Montgomery for my shower!Playing Games!
Our first game was passing the baby food jars around and seeing if you can guess what it is.. From the look on Brooke's face I would say this one stunk! Our next game was to "finish the nursery rhythm". We were given a sheet with a bunch of partial nursery rhythms and asked to finish them.. How did me.. the new mommy.. do? Welllllllll.. lets just say I need to brush up on my rhythms a little!
I love this picture of Amy and I!

Next it was time to open gifts! I was OVERWHELMED with the amount of gifts.. they just kept coming and coming... Cooper got some beautiful and wonderful things! I am so blessed to have wonderful friends who were so happy for us and showered us with so many wonderful things.. but most of all.. with so much LOVE!
Cooper's first bathing suit! From My Momma

Wendy knows me well and knew I needed monogrammed stuff for Coop

In Valerie's bag of stuff there was a tiger... An Auburn Tiger of Course!

Mary Jane and Brooke knew Cooper needed Auburn stuff. Among all the orange and blue baby stuff was also an Auburn Shirt!

I was super excited to see the diaper bag my mother in law had given me.....

Then I saw it was monogrammed.. EVEN BETTER!

Love it!

Only I would get monogrammed diapers! (Amy's face in this picture CRACKS me up)

The hostesses got us a baby bath FULL of stuff... Much Needed!

Momma got Cooper the most beautiful baby blue outfit. It is one of my favorites and he wears for all special occasions! (I had looked at this at Sew Precious, but was not sure if it was a good size. I had gone in Friday morning and mother went in Friday afternoon right before the shower. The lady in Sew Precious remembered me and showed Mother this outfit.)

These pictures make me smile! I had waited so long to have a baby shower.. I felt like it was a dream. I was so very happy that night and you can tell in these pictures! I can not say enough how much that night meant to me! It was wonderful! I call it my "crazy, last minute, girlfriend shower"... but you would have never known it was last minute by the amount of people that came and how great the shower was! My friends love me very much and I felt that at this shower!
ohhhh and did I mention the loot that I went home with...WOW! Coop got some great stuff.....
Everyone made me feel so special that night!
The wait was well worth it....