I am very pleased to say that we shocked the heck out of my sister for her shower this past Sat.  My mom and I have been working on it for awhile.  When we first picked a date, I knew we had to come up with a way to throw her off track.  Lets face it, anyone who is getting married or having a baby for the 1st time is pretty sure that they will be getting a shower.  They look at there registries getting purchased and start looking at the calender as time marches on.

I decided the best way to throw her off was to give her bad information.  The real date of the shower was Sat Nov 11th.  I called her before my mom called her to say she had to come down that weekend.  In my best giving it a way tone, I told her we were having an Early Thanksgiving Dinner at Io e Tus on Sunday Nov. 12th and that she should bring a big car and her husband.  Io E Tus is the restaurant that I had my baby shower at, my cousin had her baby shower at and we had my sister's bridal shower at.  It hit her and she was like AHHHHHHHHHH.

It was then set she was coming down for the weekend.  My sister suggested that they go shopping for the baby that Sat and my mom said great that they'd have lunch too.  The plan was going perfectly!  See, my sister can bee a bit skeptical.  So fooling her was no small feat.  My mom also can't keep a secret to save her life, so this allowed for her to talk about the shower with my sister - only with no details of when and where.  My sister never needed to ask, cause she thought she already knew!  HA!

My cousins Andrea and Kara met me early to help me set up - altho many people got there even before us.  I teased them all that they should know better than to get to an affair our family is having early.  They are lucky we got there early, lol.  Ben helped too while the kids socialized.  After the surprise tho, Ben took the kids back to Andrea's house where her husband, my cousin B was with their kiddos.  All the kiddos get along very well and had a blast playing.  And that meant mommies got to eat their food in peace!  (Andrea and Kara are the female half of the cousins that I met up with at Knoebles a few weeks ago...).  Andrea, Kara and I sat with my sister, my mom, sister's MIL and a few friends.  I really enjoy hanging with Andrea and Kara and now my sister is closer and was there obviously cause it was her day, it was even better.  We got to eat and chat, in peace, which is such a treat!

When my sister walked in the room, her whole body turned crimson and she started beating on her husband, lol.  I knew we succeeded!  She was truly surprised.  Yeay!  The rest of the day was lovely.  Food was awesome, lots of fun people and my sister made out like a bandit.