Scrabble Dabble Doodle all the day.

This past weekend I had the great honor of cohosting a wedding shower for Libby! Libby and Gregg are getting married on October 30th and the theme is kites!! guess why?? Gregg's last name is KITE!!! Brilliant.

So, guess what the theme of the shower was? No, not kites! SCRABBLE! I hosted the shower with Ms. Ann and Nanny and they came up with the great scrabble idea. Any shower with Ms. Ann and Nanny goes down as one of the best showers of all time. I can't wait till I have babies so I can have a baby shower hosted by them. The wedding shower they threw for me was bird themed...maybe when I'm preggers they will host an egg shower. get it?

I was in charge of making 100 (well i forgot about the blank ones..so 98) scrabble tiles that were about 3x3 ins. Easy? Not so much.


I printed off all of the tiles using Scramble font. It has the right score on each tile! I then used a small razor blade to cut the tiles out of that foam poster board and then clued each letter onto a tile. Luckily, I never cut myself but I did end up with a blister on my finger for pushing on to the top of the razor blade.

Mrs. Osborne was kind enough to let us use her pool house for the shower! We've had many a shower in this pool house and they all turn out fabulous.

Food!

Amazing Scrabble graham cracker cookies!


The bride with the hostesses and the giant Scrabble board!


The game was a hit! We had 4 groups of 3 and everyone really got into it. I've never played Scrabble and all the excitement made me want to run out and buy my own! Regular size..not giant.

I was the game show host.


Nanny was the score keeper.


Ms. Ann was the tile passer-outer and helper.



And the winners are....


The bride and half of her bridesmaids


it was a lovely shower indeed

The Cat Hunters

**i typed half of this on Friday before we went to a lake so when I say this weekend, I mean labor day weekend**

What a crazy weekend this was!! I don't have enough finger strength to share all of it with you put I will try to sum it up. monogrammed bags. fedex craziness. sketchy car parts. border wars. pit stop in san antonio. flat in falfurrias. el pato. garage sale. packing. first party. botana. caldo. target. more packing. more el pato. and then finally...cat hunting.

On Monday before we left McAllen we stopped by my parent's house to say goodbye. As soon as we get out of the car, Morgan yells "Stop! Don't come up here!"....excuse me? What is going on?

Then I see the pet taxi with 3 tiny kittens huddled together. My parents started feeding a cat outside their house a year or so ago to help keep little critters away from their house. Well, it has grown into a heard. It was just three cats but then two mama cats had a total of 6 kittens. After two of them died my mom decided they needed to find real homes....and what would be the quickest and easiest way to do so? Oh! catch them and take them to the animal shelter. Little did they know that these tiny kittens were fast...and vicious.

When we arrived to the Ho House (that's what we call my parent's house...and now that i think of it, very fitting with all the kitten mama's running around) Morgan and Mason were on the last kitten. This is what I saw:


This poor kitten did not want to surrender!



The kitten.


SUCCESS!


Yes, they are each wearing gloves. I was a little confused but Mason (on the right) got bite by the first kitten he caught. These two were quite a pair. One has special needs and the other has a degenerative eye disease and is about to have a cornea transplant. Not your typical cat hunting team...but like usual...they won't let anything get in their way.


Poor kittens didn't want to go...but they will go to good homes.


Daisy wanted her picture taken too!