This past Saturday Brittany hosted a family baby shower for me and her niece to be! She did a great job with all the planning, organizing and decorating! I truly appreciate all of her hard work! She is a great sister-in-law to have! Thank you to everyone who attended! It was great seeing everyone again and we appreciate all the nice gifts!
I loved all the bright colors at the shower. Devin and I had originally decided to go with a Dr. Seuss theme in the baby's room since we couldn't find out what we were having, and Britt decided it'd make a great shower theme and she was right!
Since I don't like being the center of attention, Brittany was nice enough to let me get through the shower without having to be the focus of any games! The only "game" that we did was to have all of the guests guess the date, time of birth, length and weight of the baby. The prize is a Bath & Body Works basket. She set up this table for peoples guesses with the one fish, two fish theme, colored goldfish for snacks, and a fishbowl to people to put their guesses in.
The tables were very colorful! Britt decorated with some Dr. Seuss books and some little squishy balls and little boa things that the kids had a blast playing with. The boxes contained cupcakes that Britt and Stacy made. Each box had a Dr. Seuss quote on it. The thought behind the cupcakes was that since it was a brunch cake didn't necessarily go with it, so we chose to do cupcakes in take out boxes and if people wanted to they could eat it there or they could take it home!
The banks crazy colored chairs matched the bright decorations!
This is one of the cupcakes. There were also some with pink, purple, and green icing. As a sidenote, since I had extremely low blood sugar I got to eat half of this one with my afternoon snack! It was soooooooo yummy! Thanks to Stacy and Britt (and Mike at the end) for decorating them and to Stacy for baking them.
Food table! Thank you to everyone who brought food! I wish I would have been able to eat more. It all smelled and looked so good!
And what would a Dr. Seuss themed brunch be without green eggs and ham? I heard that Ella loved these green eggs and I know Britt was happy to send some home with her!
I'm terrible at remembering to take pictures, we had already put away quite a few gifts when I remembered I didn't have a picture of them! This is what the room looked like after we put some away. I know Devin doesn't look very enthused, but I know that he was. He came to the tail end of the shower and videotaped it and helped put everything away! He's too good to me and I know hes gunna make a great daddy!
I didn't want Mocha to feel left out so we got her a new bone that she got to enjoy while we put stuff away!
Swarley didn't get any new toys so he entertained himself by climbing all over the gifts. It was hillarous to watch!
After we put most of everything away. The desk chair is in there so we could see how much room we had to spare for a chair and because it is nice to have somewhere to sit! The green basket that the Rankin girls gave us packed full of goodies, matches the room perfectly!
The wall with the dresser on it! I should have taken a picture of the stuff in the dresser because there is quite a bit!
The "angled wall" with stuff we have to build/find somewhere for. I am hoping to find some type of bookshelf or toy box to fit here. It looks pretty small in this picture, but there is a decent amount of room there.
The changing table after I organized it! Ignore the target bag, it is just garbage and I didn't think about removing it from the picture. Each basket holds different things for the time being from diaper bag stuff to medical stuff, to future eating stuff, and I don't remember the fourth one! I need to get some baskets to match the room, but am having a hard time finding what I want! I know I will find it if I hold out long enough!
Our little girl's closet! Thank you Toni for all the hangers, they are going to be a lifesaver and a money-saver for sure! She has more clothes in our computer room closet that I still need to move over. When we got them we didn't have this closet organizer up, so I stored them in the computer room. Our little girl isn't even here and already has things in two closests, what is she going to overtake as a teenager?
I told myself that I wasn't going to be one of the pregnant ladies that is always taking pictures of herself, but I know that I have friends and family that are out of state that want to see me pregnant and can't so I decided to give them a profile shot. This was taken at 31 weeks and 1 day, the day of the shower.Okay, so much for keeping the post short, but I hope you enjoyed it! I hope to update again on either Thursday or Friday with the results of my doctors appointment on Wednesday.
Thanks for checking in and thank you again to everyone who attended the shower. We are truly blessed to have such caring, thoughtful, and generous friends and family members!
1 comment:
Woohoo shower # 1 went well! :) I can't believe all of the awesome stuff you got - and that you found places for it all. Just wait until the last shower - then you'll really have to cram it in! And you are probably going to have to change that kid's clothes every 10 minutes to be able to wear everything before she grows out of it, but all of it is so darn cute it'll be worth it!!
And I'm glad you took the profile shot even though you weren't thrilled - you will want to have that some day!! :)
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