The Un-Shower

Taken by Elias

My good friends Carissa, Noah and Shari planned a baby shower for us, that wasn't really a shower, but just a get together with a bunch of great friends. They cooked marvelous food, we mingled, Elias took tons of pictures with the camera (although most of them people's shoes), and everyone seemed to have a wonderful time.

After most folks had gone home, we played a fun game that is a twist on the telephone game. Each person writes down a setence, then passes it to the left. That person draws a picture of the sentence and folds the sentence down, so that the next person can't see the sentence, they can only see the picture. The paper is then passed to the left again. The next person tries to determine what the original sentence was and writes it down...etc, etc, etc. It carries on for as long as you want, or until you run out of room on the paper. The theme was, "Something to do with the Ecklund/Kiefer family and the new baby." People came up with some interesting stuff. A sampling below (It's too bad I can't provide the pictures):

Original sentence: Baby boy Kiefer-Ecklund will complete calculus proof by age 3.
Final sentence: Erica is sad because she is going to have another baby.

Original sentence: Erica's belly is filled with magic and DIAMONDS.
Final sentence: Mom deserves a diamond after the tornado Elias has made.

Original sentence: Elias thinks his brother should be named "Boy."
Final sentence: Elias can't wait to punch his little brother in the face.

Original sentence: Matt was having name indecision.
Final sentence: Matt wanted a baby; Erica wanted a cat.

The only down side to the party is that Elias ate too much chocolate and threw up all night long. I guess the good news was that I got to stay late at the party, so Matt had to clean most of it up!