I have not had the best day in the world today lol. The day started off with getting Jason ready for his stress test voice recognition thing this morning. Well, getting him out the door wasn't so bad, but then I got a phone call about 45 minutes later from a panicked husband that couldn't find his driver's license. Well, big problem there when you need your driver's license in order to get into the police department where the stress test was, and to top if off, Jason was already 15 minutes late because the traffic was horrible this morning. SO... here I go searching around the house for his license. Eventually I did find it, and had to drive to Nashville before I had scheduled in my day. One bad thing down... Jason got his license, and he was able to take his test just fine... and luckily, he passed it, even though it's pretty hard to NOT be stressed when you had a stressful morning searching for your lost driver's license after realizing you drove there without it!
Ok, so then I had a ton of paperwork... paperwork that I probably should still be working on, but I needed a break for a bit. You can only do so much paperwork at once! On my way to a session with one of my families, I got rear-ended. Yes, that would be me, stopped at a stoplight, and the stupid lady behind me not paying attention and rolling into me. Luckily, she wasn't going very fast, so there was no damage to my car, and I don't think there was any damage to hers either, but it was hard to tell due to the fact that it looked like she'd be in several other fender benders. Dumb lady!! Then, in her little middle eastern accent (no offense, I'm just trying to describe how she sounded), she says "how 'bout we give each information, and then we ok?" Um no lady, I called the police, you need to just sit your behind down and wait for them to get here so you can get ticketed for hitting me!! I probably wouldn't have cared so much if I wasn't pregnant, but I didn't want to give her my info anyway because it wasn't my fault she ran into me! So, the cop got there and filled out a police report, and I got her insurance info (although I won't need it for anything), and went on my way... LATE to my session with my family! Stupid lady! Then I had 2 sessions with clients... and then I had to take Taco to the kennel so we can go to Washington without him.
It's always so sad when we take him there. I know they treat him well, but he started whining as soon as I got off the exit from the interstate, and I still had another mile or so before we were actually at the kennel... he just knows that well! I got there, and he was all happy and excited until we opened the door to the actual kennel room, and then he was whining whining whining... it made me want to cry. :( He's so clingy when he realizes we're about to leave! Again, I probably wouldn't have been so emotional if I wasn't pregnant, but that just made me sad.
Now, I have to finish my paperwork so I don't have to do any work on my vacation, and then I have to pack... yes, that's right, I haven't even begun to think about packing for vacation yet! Ugh... it might be a long night... and an early morning with a 6 am flight!! See all you Washington peeps tomorrow!!
This was one of the games we played. It was a game where the hostess puts different candy bars inside baby diapers and then melts the candy bars, so then they get passed around in order for people to try to guess what candy bar is in each one. It just looks really strange to watch everyone inspect what looks like a very messy diaper! Laurie Odegaard inspected quite closely on this one!
Then my mom and Carmen Stucky decided they would collaborate and try to figure some of them out.
I did pretty well... just wish I didn't second guess myself or I would have been almost perfect! 
Dayna seemed stumped here, and I'm not sure exactly what Danelle was thinking, other than maybe we were all just a bit crazy!
Terri Nicholas holding her son Luke, and Paula Hochstatter doing their inspecting.
Natalie Skaug won that game. We realized she must really like her candy bars, and hasn't been around many diapers to be grossed out by the thought of inspecting them closely!
Thea thought the paper was pretty fun too.
This was the end result... AFTER we consolidated some. See why we were worried about getting it all back to Tennessee on the airplane??
Like I said, the party was great, and thanks to everyone that came and/or helped out to make it happen! And just for fun because I think it's a cute picture, even though it's not from the baby shower, here's Thea, who decided she wanted to be in her seat, only she didn't figure out how to turn around in it. :) Isn't she cute?!
There wasn't much shade because the trees planted around the lakes were still small, so we found what shade we could, and then moved as the shade moved. :) 
A while later, Jason caught his first one.
Turns out, I only caught one... and Jason caught the rest. This is the biggest one he caught. He also had two that got off the line right next to the shore, and one other one that broke his line, so I'm sure it was pretty big.
Here's the fish we caught... I think there were 5, although it looks like there are only 4 in the picture. We had some catfish fillets the next day, and I froze the rest of the fillets for later. YUM!
