my mommy's first baby shower...

some of my mommy's AVID seniors from the class of 2007.

okay...so who said this was a mexican tradition?

the red frosting, we found out later, was hard to clean up.

my parents at my mommy's first baby shower. i'm actually in this photo, hidden in my mommy's tummy. aren't they some good lookin' parents?

my mommy was surprised by her AVID Senior class with her first baby shower. my daddy was in on it the whole time. my mommy seems to love her students because i always hear her call them her "kids" when she talks about them. they visit her at home and she often goes out to eat with them. even the students who have graduated from carson high and are in college near and far...still visit my mommy at home.

anyway, when her seniors last spring held my mommy's shower, they tricked her by telling her that it is a mexican thing to bite the first piece off the cake. when my mommy was all ready, one of them pushed her head in the cake. well, that began a frosting fight that my mommy was glad to start. she and her kids learned that red frosting is hard to clean up.

she was blessed beyond words that her kids would think of her like this. they even showed up at the hospital when i was born. i hope they stick around and give me pointers about going to college. oh yeah! with the exception of a few, these are the students that were accepted into four year universities right out of high school. my mommy told them they would get in if they just trusted her and followed her instructions. guess what? in spite of my mommy's pushing and madness, it worked! faithfully following instructions pays off. ask my mommy's kids...they'll tell you. :)