Thanks and bye!

Thanks so much from all of us here, especially Ceinwyn, who is going to be one very spoiled little lady!

Thanks everyone!

Thanks Amanda for organizing the blog, to Erin and Kali for being there with Linds, and to everyone else for joining in. It was such fun! Goodbye from Ian, Krewe, and I!

Thank you all

Thanks to everyone for participating. I am so glad we were able to get together and celebrate with Lindsey!

Ceinwyn is so lucky to have such an amazing group of ladies surrounding her mother in love and support!

Thanks again - I had fun - hope you all did too! Enjoy the rest of your day (or night)!

Amanda

Thanks to EVERYONE

That's all of the gifts that have come to date. If anyone else has sent something that we should watch for, let me know! Thank you SO MUCH for participating in my online baby shower. And, thanks very much to the ladies who organized everything behind the scenes: Amanda, Lise and Erin. :D

Mailman

Cieran just went out to check for any last minute packages....

From Kendra

A foggy humidifier! :)

transformers are hard

I'm busy trying to transform Cieran's new transformer. I find those directions lacking!

Posting

The chatter doesn't have to stop - feel free to post and comment while we wait for the pictures!

From Nina!

A miracle blanket for swaddling and an infant support for the carseat.

For Cieran from his cousin

A transformer! He's super excited but we're all trying to read the directions to figure it out!!!

In the mail for you from Kendra...

I doubt Amazon will have gotten the following things to you by today, so consider this post the "box" full of gifts:

A Skwish (by Manahatten Toys)
The Frog humidifier from your registry
Born-Free bottles with accessories

From Amanda, Dyl & Aidan

A baby SCRAPBOOK with pages handmade by Amanda! LOVE IT!!!

To Cieran from Lise

From Erin

PJs and a gift certificate to a fabric store! Thanks, Erin!

Gifts?

Linds - would you like to open some of the gifts you received?

TP Game Winner

Off by only 1/4 of sheet - Lisé is the winner!

Lisé - I will be sending you an iTunes gift certificate!

Thanks for hosting that one Erin!

TP Game ANSWER!

10.25 squares!! :)

TP Game

Is that just around her belly - like left side to right side, or all the way around her? Just want to make sure!

Let's TP Ceinwyn!

The next game it to guess how many TP squares will go around Linds' beautiful belly!!

Post your guess in the comments.

Bingo Winners!

Congrats to Laurie and Nina - you will both be getting a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble!

Thanks for playing ladies - that was fun!

Baby Shower Bingo

Alright - here we go!

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Time for Bingo?!

Did everyone receive a bingo card? Let me know if you need one either by commenting on this post or sending me an e-mail at amanda.bruesch@gmail.com - I will send one to you. We are about ready to play bingo!

Game Winner

Yay - Aunt Marta down in New Mexico received the poopy diaper! While she contemplates eating it, and sharing with Grannie Laurie - I will be sending her a gift certificate to Amazon.com!

Congrats!

Hi & bye

I'm afraid my date (Gerry) is getting hungry & we are due to go out for dinner so I had better go!
I'll sign in again when we get back & hope you are still partying.
have a great time
Love to all
M

Found the new post spot now!

Hello again
I'm Margaret - John's mum. John is probably groaning at my inadequacy here!
Linds is the best daughter-in-law anyone could wish for.

Here's the belly

Exciting!

Hello everyone! I'm excited to be here with Linds. She looks so beautiful!!!!! Her belly is perfect. The first time I met Linds, I took her to the Whole Earth Cafe at UCSC when she was considering coming to graduate school with Erik. She did and we shared our graduate career together. She was at my baby shower with my daughter Elena and I'm so excited to be here with her. I'm currently doing her bidding, making tea, cleaning, and bringing treats.

First Game

Everyone should have received a box of favors from Lisé - which contained a bath salts and soap wrapped in a cute little wash cloth diaper.

One of us has a 'poopy' diaper - if you want to unwrap your favors and take a peek. Post a picture if you have the winner! I hope it wasn't a blowout!

Whoever received the 'poopy' diaper gets a gift!

Good Luck!

Intro

I'm Saavik and I met Lindsey at Carnegie in 2003 or so, when she and John were the only sane people working there (sadly that may still be true...). She is my hero mom, for always answering all of my parenting questions with detailed, non-judgemental answers, and for finishing a PhD while parenting a small child... :)

Hi, I'm Nina...

... and I met Linds 3 years ago (almost 4!) when we first moved to Maryland. John was my husband's boss. I miss sharing stories during our astro playdates!

And here's a pic of me (please excuse the messy office behind me):

Linds & Erin checking in

I'm here

Aha, I think I figured out how to do this! Will is finally down for a nap, so I should actually get to sit and chill!

I'm Amanda

I am the sister-in-law. I have known Linds since 1997 when I started dating Dylan! 12 years later - here we are!

It has been wonderful to have boys the same age to bounce questions off each other, and make sure what these little hooligans are doing is normal. I am excited to meet Ceinwyn and watch her grow!

I'm Lise (with the flowers in a previous post). I met Lindsey in grad. school at Santa Cruz and we became fast friends. I'm still so honored to have her as a dear friend in my life! I think I've met most of you, too!

Hi, I'm Kendra....

...am in the pink shirt in the photo below....

I've known Linds since we were in preschool, and I've known John practically since Linds found him.

Am listening to the lullabies now---they're great! My son Evan LOVES them!

Ready to rock n Roll!

Hi all - so

England calling!

Hello I'm here but shall be going out soon - what a shame! I'm so sorry to be missing all the fun but I hope it's a great party &I shall enjoy reading all teh messages when I get back.
Have a great time & please forgive me for double booking.
I gave my details to Auntie Di so she may look in too but I know they are up to their eyes in harvest etc at the moment.
Lots of love to you all
Margaret

GFHS - Idaho, lonely lost German High School student

Hi, my name is Valerie and I met Lindsey when I arrived in Glenns Ferry High School in 1994. I don't know how I would have survived ranch life without our GFHS bunch and nerd bowl!!! Glenns Ferry isn't somehow near LA, a city every German exchange student wanted to live in back then. And I met John one day before Linds and he got married.

Welcome to Lindsey's Baby Shower

It is noon in Idaho - I guess that means it is time to start this party!

Since we have people from all over the world, who may or may not know each other - please introduce yourselves and tell us how you know John and Linds! If you have a picture to post, that is wonderful too!

Also - if you haven't already - please go to their expectnet website and enter your guesses for the baby's arrival, weight, length, etc. We all know it is going to be a sweet baby girl!

http://www.expectnet.com/games/BigBrotherCieran

Oops, picture!!!

Almost forgot all about it: ugly office, but funny people!!!

Ready to Go in Seattle!

All set here, albeit with some festive flowers instead of balloons! (They were lost in the moving chaos)

Ready to launch in Lyon!!!

Here I am

It's almost 8 pm in Germany - ready to go!

We're ready for the Shower!

Aidan is having a picnic in the garage and I am ready at the computer desk! So glad everyone is joining in the fun!

All set in Chicago!

Hi Everyone: Just a quick shot of my computer, ready for the shower, here in (still warm, thankfully) Chicago. Can't wait!

Nina

Grannie Laurie & Aunt Marta are standing by.......

Grannie Laurie and Aunt Marta are using the same computer for the blog, and we'll be taking turns at the other computer for Skyping (is that a word?).  Lindsey needs to turn Skype on at her end!  We're almost ready!

Decorating with a 3 year old....

...goes something like this:

5 balloons: 2 popped, 1 currently being thrown vigorously around the room and is no doubt soon to pop. And, here's the culprit, posing for an apt photo this morning:

Hello I'm still trying to figure this out. Please forgive my lack of IT skills!

Hello I'm here at last but very unsure about this process so bear with me please!

It's so good to "see" everyone here! I can't wait until Saturday. It'll be a blast!

Belly & munchkin pics

I'll try to get some better ones later, but here's a comparison between what my belly used to look like and what it looked like last week:




And, here's the munchkin (taken in early June, at ~20 weeks):

So excited for Saturday!!!! Wahoo! See you all then...

Hi from Maryland!

Hooray! We're online and functioning! :) Thought I'd do a practice post here. But, also wanted to thank everyone for wanting to be involved in this. It's so nice to have a little celebration like this with all the important ladies in my life. Looking forward to "seeing" you all on Saturday!

It's getting closer . . . .!

(HI VAL- who would have thought we'd meet from accross the world via Lindsey's baby shower!)

I'm starting to feel a bit panicked over trying to fly to Lindsey's at the right time for Cienwyn's birth!  I really think she's going to come early, but I'm afraid if I book plane tickets for too early, I'll have to go home before she gets there.  The airlines should have open-ended tickets for grannies!