Our Baby Shower

My best friend hosted a drive by baby shower.  When she originally asked, we had no clue what things would look like in terms of Covid-19 when it came time for a shower so we decided to go with a shower by mail and a drive by shower option. She had the cutest Lilly inspired invitations made and they were perfect!

Devin planned a very special shower for us complete with a pop-up tent for our front yard and favors for friends and family that stopped by.  Luckily, by the time the shower rolled around I believe everyone was fully or at the very least partially vaccinated! Both sets of our parents and Allison came.  Allison helped Devin set everything up.  We had a few visitors stop by include family, family friends, and one of our dear friends in town.  We enjoyed getting a good visit with my aunt and uncle who made the trip up to spend the weekend in town.  We hadn't seen them since Christmas of 2019!  I only wish we had made a point to get pictures with everyone as they stopped by....I didn't even get a picture with Wyatt! 

We feel especially lucky to have so many loving family and friends in our lives who are already making sure to show their love for our baby girl.  We have been extremely spoiled with gifts, words of encouragement, and helpful tips to help us welcome her into the world! We are ready for her arrival a month or so!

Unicorn Themed Baby Shower

We hosted a co-ed baby shower for our friends, Dan and Kalysa, who are expecting their first baby in August.  When we first asked if we could have them a shower, Kalysa mentioned liking unicorns.  She's using the theme of unicorns, mermaids, fairies, and dragons for the nursery so I decided to choose unicorns to go with for the theme of the baby shower.  I designed an entire party suite for the shower.  I pulled out some of my old favorites from the first shower I hosted a few years ago and updated them to fit the unicorn theme.  I made wishes for baby cards for guests to fill out, scratch off cards, and a Price is Right game. I have had the Price is Right game in my shop for a few years but had not yet used it so I was happy to finally get the chance to use it personally.

Once again, I created a diaper cake only this time I played up on the unicorn them! I also made a diaper wreath for my front door to greet guests as they arrived. I decorated the mantle by framing the baby's name and hanging some banners.

For food we decided to grill hamburgers and hotdogs to keep it simple.  We had veggies, pasta salad, chips, and desserts! I made a unicorn pull apart cupcake cake, sugar cookies in the shape of onesies, unicorn bark, and we had fresh strawberries.  I also put together an infused water bar! I made lemon lime infused water and cucumber mint infused water and also created a do-it-yourself station to create your own flavors with citrus, cucumber, and mint!

After we all visited and ate, we played our games and then Kalysa and Dan opened the gifts.  We had such a fun time having everyone over to celebrate and shower the parents-to-be and baby girl with love!

Sprinkle for Traci and Baby Madelyn

On Sunday, Kalysa hosted the cutest sprinkle for our friend Traci and Baby Madelyn.  She had our group of girlfriends over for a yogurt and cereal bar and a MOMosa bar!  It was so clever and so cute.  We played a few shower games and then we all made custom onesies! It was the cutest idea and we had fun while doing it and now baby Madelyn has a bunch of custom onesies.

Holliday Park and Nature Center

Yesterday, I went to Indy for the afternoon.  Allison was co-hosting a baby shower for her BFF and needed an extra set of hands to help set up.  They had the shower in the nature center at Holliday Park.  I helped her set up and then I ran a couple of errands - including the all important Flying Cupcake run.  I spent the rest of the time reading outside at the park on a beautiful spring day!

Allison helped throw together a darling French themed bebe shower for Ellie.  So much cuteness.  I only wish I had more pictures to share of the finished product!

An Amanda Condra Designs print accented the food table

Food table in progress.

Today, Wyatt and I spent the afternoon with his mom to celebrate her birthday which is why the Flying Cupcake visit was so necessary.  Happy Birthday, Nancy!

Alligator Themed Baby Shower

On Sunday I hosted a baby shower for one of my best friends who happens to be due in less than a month now (November 9th to be exact).  It was my first time to host an event like this completely on my own.  I wanted to have a shower for our college friends.  Since we are all scattered out and are rarely in one place at the same time, I thought it would be nice to have an intimate shower with just us girls instead of the standard shower with family, friends, coworkers, etc.  I was tossing around theme ideas already, but when I found out the nursery theme I knew I had to use it for the shower too.

 I was able to use a color scheme that I already had in mind.  I designed the invitations and plenty of other printables in photoshop.   Since I have an affinity for milk glass, I decided to use some of my pieces as serving pieces on the food table.  My new cobalt blue glass cake plate ended up going perfectly with the color scheme.  My mom and I prepared a lunch for the shower (I couldn't have done it without the help of my amazing Momma).  I had chosen the menu of chicken salad sandwiches, greek salad, pasta salad, chips, cheese ball, sugar cookies (quite possibly my best yet!), Devil's Food cupcakes, white chocolate covered oreos and white chocolate bottle-shaped candy.  As decorations, I used a few of Devin's maternity pictures and some custom letter monogram graphics that I designed in Photoshop in white IKEA frames behind the food table.  I also made a diaper cake for the main table.  Of course, I had a million more decorating ideas but I was happy with what I ended up choosing.  I had each guest fill out a card with wishes for Baby Carter and we also played one game in which guests had to guess how big Momma-to-be's belly was by using crepe paper streamers.  Each guest also received scratch off cards to determine the winner of one of the prizes.

EDIT: My Etsy Shop is now open for business and it features items from this shower. Have a look around and check out adorable alligator themed baby shower items.
Until the next party,