Baby Shower for Sabrina

 Now, let's see if I can explain this relationship:

     - I live with TR and have for the last seven years.
     - Julie Brown is TR's daughter.
     - Julie is married to Chris Brown.
     - Before being married to Julie, Chris was married to Sandy.
     - Sandy already had several children when Chris married her--I met a number of them at the shower, but I don't think I have yet met all of them.
     - One of those children was Troy. 
     - Troy married Sabrina and Sabrina is now pregnant with her first child--a girl.
     -  That, I figure sort of makes me a step-step-grandmother to Sabrina and a step-step-great grandmother to the new baby.  I figure she can just call me Grandma G.  She can't call me Grandma Julie, because (to the child, at least) that would be Julie Brown.  Whew, that was exhausting.

     The shower was at Coco's Tea Room and Bistro which is in a huge, probably consignment, very nice antique store.  It was fun.  There were cool games, little baby diaper corsages (which figured in one of the games), lovely decorations, very nice favors which Julie had made, a whole lunch (quiche, croissant, chicken salad, tuna salad, and Ritz crackers.  Then four kinds of tea--English Breakfast, Irish, Earl Grey, and Blueberry.  I tried the blueberry, which was nice, but I put too much sugar in it, so I added Earl Grey when I got it down enough.  Now that was a great combination.

     For dessert, we had scones with Devonshire Cream...(is this the same as Clotted Cream?)  Either way, it was the first time I'd had it and it was delicious.  We also had cupcakes made by another one of the sisters (there were four sisters there.  One of whom, Tasha, is Chris' daughter.)

    The gifts seemed to go on forever and there is very little I can think of that she did not get.  I didn't see a rattle anywhere....  But they now have enough clothes to last until the child grows a bit, as well as pretty much all of the equipment I can think of that she might need.

     We really had and great time, and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone, although, I can't put all the names to the faces yet.  There were great conversations with very personable people.

Sabrina and Moms--Sandy and Julie

     When we got home, we helped Sabrina get all the gifts consolidated and moved into their car for the trip back down to Austin.  I don't think I'd have made it after the eventful day, but they are young.  TR and I came home and watched a double feature of bad Sci-Fi disaster flicks--we just really enjoy those things.

The Two Julies

This picture of Sabrina and Troy was taken earlier in the week.