A/N- This is probably going to be a long chapter, but no chapter can ever be long enough, am I right? Well, I hope this makes up for the all of the short chapters!

It was 10 am on a Sunday morning and James was just waking up. He had had a late night, but it was worth it. It had been his first Quidditch practice with the Chudley Cannons, the moment he had never dreamed of living. James had turned up for tryouts, not expecting to ever make it past the first cut.

But, after seeing his 'competition's' performances, he couldn't help but smile. He knew right then that he was going to make it. He never really bragged about his flying abilities and it was only after the tryouts that he had realized just how good he was. Everyone was excited for him, but none more excited for him then Lily. She had thrown him a party and everything.

That brought James to his current position. He was lying in bed debating how he should wake Lily up that morning. It was her birthday and everything had to be just right. 'Pillow...kiss...kick...no not a kick...ummm...alarm clock...no, too boring...I'll go with the pillow...wait, I did that on Christmas...kiss...that is definitely the way to go...'

James had his mind made up and he reached over to kiss his sleeping angel. He paused for a moment as he hovered over her taking in her breathtaking beauty. Her red hair glistened in the sun light that was pouring in the window. Lily smiled softly in her sleep and James couldn't help but smile back. He leaned down and gently kissed her on the lips.

Lily's eyes fluttered open and she found herself kissing James. He pulled away and she looked into his hazel eyes and laughed at the state of his hair. She leaned her head forward, wanting another kiss and James was only to willing to oblige.

James broke away for a moment and moved his head over to her ear. "Happy Birthday Lily Flower," he whispered.

Lily found herself blushing as James kissed her on the nose. She curled up close to him and was about to close her eyes to go back to sleep when James said, "It is 10:15, we have to make our lunch reservations at Hogsmead at noon."

Lily's eyes flew open and she waddled out of bed and over to the bathroom. James smiled to himself. In just two months time he was going to be a father. He looked at his summer Quidditch training schedule and his happiness faltered. He was going to be awfully busy that month and the month after. James got out of bed and went downstairs to start breakfast and brushed the thought out of his head.

Sirius was sitting at the kitchen table reading the Daily Prophet. He looked up as he heard James walking over to him. "Slept in a bit, did we?" he teased.

James smiled and saw that Sirius had already made breakfast. It was a shame that he was moving out in two weeks to his new small house in Surry. James was going to miss living with his best friend. James sat down at the table next to Sirius. "Any news in the prophet?" he asked rubbing his eyes.

Sirius shook his head. "No, although, I do think that they have caught on about the Order seeing as no one has been killed since the incident with Amy."

"Don't forget about Caradoc Dearborn, Dumbledore recons he was killed too. He hasn't been in contact for a few weeks," James said.

Sirius shrugged and continued to read the prophet. James walked over to the counter to where the food was and began to fix up a plate for himself and a plate for Lily. Just in time too, Lily came down the stairs a few short minutes later. "There's the birthday girl!" said Sirius teasingly.

Lily smiled and sat down in front of her filled plate. The three of them sat there and ate laughing at old Hogwarts memories.

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It was 12:30 when Gloria and Amy arrived over at the Potter's house. Everyone was gone, even Sirius. They magically began to fill up balloons and place them at random places on the first floor along with the streamers and 'Happy Birthday' signs. Amy checked the clock that was hanging in the hall way. It was almost one. She went to find Gloria who was seated in the study looking through photo albums as magically making copies of pictures that she liked and would look good on the walls.

"Where is Teresa? She should be here by now," Amy said.

"Didn't we tell you? While you were gone last night on your date with Remus we decided it would be a good idea to merge Lily's birthday party with a baby shower since we haven't thrown one yet," said Gloria looking up from the photo album.

Amy smiled. "That is a good idea. I need to turn some of the other balloons pink," she said thoughtfully.

Gloria waved her hand in the air. "Don't bother, that is where Teresa is, shopping for baby shower banners and what not."

Amy shrugged and left the room to finish decorating. She found Teresa in the living room, which was the only room that hadn't been decorated yet, opening up packages of pink balloons and pink streamers. Teresa noticed Amy watching her. "Well, don't just stand there, we need this room to be pink-i- fied!" she laughed.

Amy laughed along with her and began to magically fill the balloons and magically tie ribbons onto them, pink ribbons, of course. "We have to keep Lily out of this room until the end of the night. She will be expecting a birthday party of some sort, but never a baby shower," said Teresa.

Amy nodded and waved her wand at the pile of streamers that was lying on the floor. She shot across the room and stuck to the walls and ceiling. Teresa put up the 'Congratulations' and 'It's a Girl!' signs. They sat back to admire their handy work. "It is still missing something," Teresa declared.

"And I know exactly what it is," said Amy smiling.

She waved her wand and soft pink rose petals began to fall from the ceiling. Teresa clapped her hands and jumped up and down. "Perfect Amy, just perfect!"

Gloria stood in the hallway magically sticking pictures to the walls, starting with Lily's baby pictures. At the end of the hall were Lily's more recent pictures from her Christmas party and Amy's birthday party which had been in April. She stood back to inspect her handy work. It was beautiful; pictures of Lily, James, and all of their friends were smiling and waving at her. Gloria especially liked the pictures from their wedding which she had backed with silver paper and ribbons.

Amy and Teresa wandered into the kitchen to help Gloria with the cake. Yes, they could have saved a whole bunch of time by going to the store and buying a cake, but where is the fun in that? Besides, the cake had to be perfect and none of the cakes that they had seen came close to perfect.

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It was 3:30 according to James' watch. He still had and hour and a half to kill before returning home. He looked at Lily who was trying on a dress robe at Madam Malcome's Robes for All Occasions, and smiled. It was a sea green color and it complimented her eyes and hair perfectly. The neckline dipped in a v-shape and was out lined with beads. "Try it on, Lils, it will look gorgeous on you," said James smiling.

Lily sighed, "There is no way that this will fit me now, James. Maybe after Rose is born."

James hated to see Lily look disappointed. "Aw, come on, buy it and magically alter it at home. Then, after Rose is born alter it back," he suggested.

Lily laughed and looked over at James. "Come on Lily," he whispered in her ear as he wrapped his arms around her waist, "you know you want to buy it. It'll give us an excuse to go out dancing sometime."

Lily's eyes lit up. "Alright, I'll buy it."

James smiled. Lily loved dancing as James found out as he began dating her in their 7th year. He never liked dancing before, but dancing with Lily was different. She was beautiful when she danced, her dresses always clung to her curves perfectly and her eyes would always light up in joy. James supposed this was the reason he enjoyed it so much, because Lily enjoyed it.

They exited the shop hand in hand with James holding onto the dress in the bag. "So, where to next birthday girl?" he asked nudging her side.

Lily smiled and leaned into him. She looked over at the hill where the Shrieking Shack stood. "Did you ever stop the rose petals from falling in the Shrieking Shack?" she asked.

James smiled. "I don't think so. Maybe we should go and check on that."

Lily laughed. "There are so many in there that we could probably go swimming in them."

James laughed. "We'd probably drown!"

Lily started to laugh and continued to laugh all the way to the shack. James pulled open the door and they were showered with rose petals and their noses were filled with their bright smell. Lily only laughed harder and tears began to roll down her face as her face turned the color of her hair. James joined in with her laughing. "Yeah...we'd definitely drown. Come one, let's head somewhere else."

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It was 4:30 and everyone was at the Potter house, everyone being Amy, Teresa, Gloria, Remus, Sirius, Mr. and Mrs. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Potter (Gloria figured that James' and Lily's parents would like to be there for the baby shower), and Peter. It wasn't too many people, but it didn't matter, Teresa, Amy, and Gloria only invited the people who meant the most to Lily and James. The food had been set up in the kitchen, buffet style. Now all that was left was to have everyone hide and wait for Lily and James to come home.

At quarter to five, Amy announced that everyone should find a hiding place on the first floor, excluding the living room, which no one was aloud to enter until later.

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"James, this has been the best birthday of my life!" Lily said as she and James arrived on their front porch.

James looked at his watch. He still had ten minutes before they were due inside. He laughed. "Glad you had fun," he said grinning.

He pulled her onto the porch swing and sat down next to her. Lily smiled as James kissed her. "I wish everyday was my birthday."

James laughed, "I bet you do."

Lily laughed again as James began to play with her hair which she had left down. "What? Your hair is always so soft and pretty smelling."

"And your hair is always messy and smells like grass," she teased.

"I am hurt Lily," James said turning his back to her.

"Oh, James, you know I wouldn't have it any other way!" Lily said as she caressed his shoulders.

James turned his head and Lily playfully hit him when she saw that he was grinning. She kissed him and felt his arms snake around her waist as her hands came up to play with his hair. James broke away for a slight second and stole anther look at his watch as he leaned down to pick up her dress bag. It was now five till five. "I can't wait to see you in your dress," he said looking at it.

Lily laughed. "You are just going to have to wait."

James gave a playful groan. "You know I can't wait for anything."

"Some things are worth waiting for, and I know you have experience with that," she laughed.

"Yeah, I do, like dating you. Remember how I never asked you out once from the end of 6th year until Christmas of our 7th year?"

Lily nodded. "Well that was definitely worth waiting for," he said kissing her neck.

"James, stop it," Lily said. "We should be heading inside."

James looked at his watch. Five on the dot. "Alright, Lily, let's go." He opened up the door for her and they both went inside of the house hand in hand.

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Amy heard Lily coming down the hall complaining. "Come on James, turn on the light! I can't see anything!" Amy smiled as she sat under the bench in the foyer. Lily hated being in the dark. Lily walked by the bench and Amy couldn't resist. She reached out and lightly grabbed Lily's leg.

Lily screamed. "James, something touched me!"

At that moment the lights went on and everyone jumped out of their hiding places. Lily screamed again. "Amy Stephens, you are...you are..."

Exactly what she was Amy never found out because Lily was over come by a fit of laughter. She looked around the hall and noticed pictures of herself posted along the walls. She greeted her guests who all wished her a happy birthday.

James smiled when he saw his parents. They weren't sure if they were going to be able to make it or not as his father was a very active Auror at the moment. He gave his parents a hug and continues to also greet his guests.

"How long have you all been planning this?" asked Lily turning to her best friends.

"Not too long actually," Gloria smiled.

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Lily spent the next hour reminiscing with her friends and family over dinner. At the end of the hour Amy stood up and asked everyone to follow her to the living room doors. "Lily, go inside," she ordered.

Part of Lily was afraid to look. "What is going to jump out at me?" she asked.

Teresa smiled. "Lily, why on earth would anything jump out at you?"

Lily smiled weakly, still not sure what to expect. She pulled open the door. She screamed again. "I have gone...I have gone...pink-blind!" Everything in the room was pink.

Lily walked into the room with James, who didn't know about the baby shower part of the party. He was completely shocked. He too at first had thought he had gone er...pink-blind...as Lily had said. James found himself laughing.

Lily was crying now. She had the best friends in the whole world. They knew exactly what to do and exactly how to do it. She gasped in shock as a rose petal brushed up against the tip of her nose. She looked up at the ceiling and smiled when she saw the pink rose petals falling down.

Everything was perfect.

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A/N- Yeah...that was a long chapter! I didn't really want to split it up so I made it one huge thing.

Well I am officially done with school! Yay I graduatid from ate grayd! I am so smrt! Lol! Well more later!

Disclaimer- (I kind of forgot about this) I don't own anything that J.K. Rowling does.