Aasi's shower!

We (maryam & I) finally unveiled the surprise baby shower for Aasiya yesterday. We'd been planning the shower for a while and were trying desperately hard to keep it a surprise from Aasii dear. I must say we got a few kicks out of watching Aasi be all gullible to our craziness.

While I was planning the shower for maryam, i kept bugging aasi to put her lists together so I could throw her a shower as well. It took a bit of convincing and pushing, but alhamdolillah she finally agreed. On Eid, Maryam mentioned she wanted to throw it together. Alhamdolillah it turned out to be a miracle in disguise with all the final essays, projects and assignments, that ihave due next week.. Poor Maryam often had to do the running around on her own to pick up everything while i tried putting the final touches to my asgmts.

All of last week had been soo busy with Imo being tied up at work. He worked extra hours throughout the week and then topped the pie when he went to work to Markham on Thursday morning, then got called to kitchener in the evening and and then got called to whitby on friday morning. He basically didnt come home for 30 hours straight. Friday evening I had to give a lecture/talk at Uni of To, he picked me up from downstairs, dropped me there and then finally went home. He showered, watched the b-ball game, and then came to pick me up. We went out on a nice dinner date where we got a chance to enjoy a good meal with some exciting talks. Alhamdolillah. it really felt nice to spend some QT with him since Eesa went to his grandma's the night before. On sat i had different things going on with Young Muslims but finally had to backout of a couple of them to go home and take a much needed power nap. I've been battling some serious insomnia (lol) the last few years :(

Finally got up at 5 in the evening, blended up some hummus dip and baked some lemon cupcakes with my secret ingredient. I had already made the frosting for the cupcakes on friday(but never got around to using it). We were getting late so I left the pasta for sat morning. We went to moms, had dinner and then headed out to aasi's MIL's place where we dropped the food and thanks to her MIL, the decorations were already taken care of. we then headed off to aasi's place to sort of throw her off. we bummed out at her place till past midnight while the boys went out . there were moments where we almost blurted out about sunday, but Alhamdolillah we survived.

On sat morning, we headed off to aasi's MIL's, quickly made the pasta and got the margarita glasses ready for aasi's fave lemon-lime margarita in salt rimmed glasses. got ready just in time alhamdolillah. slowly people started trickling in - PST (pakistani standard time)! unfortunately the snow really didnt help. lol the funniest was zainab and maryam who saw someone coming out of the house and hid in the bushes thinking it was aasiya...lol! the sweetest was aasi's mom and grandma (Mama Pat and mom Lawra) driving in all the way from Keswick.

we played some games (my fave being the molten chocolate in the diapers... it REALLY looked like poop!!) and bummed around in general. alhamdolillah it turned out great. i dont think we took any pictures of the favors but they were really cute blue and white ikea candleholders with scented tealight candles wrapped in tulle and ribbons with plastic safety pins in blue and pink(blue and pink was also our theme for the shower). Alhamdolillah Eesa was a gem throughout. MashaAllah he looked adorable(pix to follow, once maryam sends them). He got really cranky in the middle when he couldnt sleep because fo all the distractions all over. he's still at daadi's coz i had college today:(

we came back home around 9 last night and played basketball after a long time. i've been meaning to tone out my body for a while and alhamdolillah the energy rush felt excellent. After I had eesa, Alhamdolillah i lost most of the my pregnancy weight right away but im still in need of some toning. i used to work out often after eesa was born but have constantly been neglecting it lately. i can't say it enough, but that workout left me really refreshed.

today was school all day and im soooo pooped, it's unbelievable! so off i go! tadaa!
pictures to follow!:P
Wsalaams