Baby Shower Long Distance

Brooke is far away in VA and could not be here for a baby shower, but would that stop us ladies from having an excuse to get together and have fun?! NO WAY :)
LaRae and her daughter Nichole came, with her two daughters and twins on the way. Aunt Tana and Aunt Debbie with her daughter Celeste were there too while Tyne represented the Karin Randall girls.We played some games, had to have tie breakers cause they were all too good at some of them and laughed a lot. Celeste had some really good answers to BABY A-Z.

Then we took a break to call Brooke and open a package from her.

What a sweetheart!!! All the way from Virginia she sent us thanks yous and favors!!
Mom read the card and inside the box were "rattles" with the coolest pan scrapers, or as dad likes to say, "You could use these for anything. But I guess scraping a pan is a good idea." haha such a guy.

While we were on the phone, we decided to play a game with Brooke..... and used my dad as a visual.
The game was to guess how big around she was and used my dad to estimate.... boy were we WAY OFF. Nobody guessed under 48 inches around, she was 38!!! Can you believe that? Well if you've seen her or a picture of her you would.

Then Mom or Grandma Hoffmann brought out the gifts to OOH and AHH about.
I think pretty much anything tiny is worth an ooh and an ahh. They are SOOOO CUTE

And then it was breakfast time. Really it was lunch by then but mom put together an awesome brunch full of "little" things. Little baby cinnamon rolls, little mini muffins and fruit. It was all so delicious.Brooke, we wish you could have been here, but we had a good time talking to you. Thanks for giving us an excuse to get together. You are so thoughtful.
We miss you, we love you.
We hope everything goes well this week, I expect a call sometime! Dad's not the only one now who's said low pressures bring babies :)