Baby Shower for Krista

My dear friend Krista is expecting her first child in August and I was so honored to host a baby shower to celebrate the pending arrival of her little man, Elijah.

Here are some photos from the event!

Guest were greeted with a custom poster that I had made just for the event

They also had an opportunity to guess when baby Elijah would make his grand appearance. We used a Cowboys calendar because that is the favorite team of his daddy! 

Special designated area for the special mama to open her gifts! 

We played the "Price is Right" game where guests guessed how much common baby items cost! A game that really seemed to put into perspective that babies are expensive! 

 And, or course, guests should only drink out of baby bottles at a shower!

Here is the dining room with yummy foods all set up... The runner going down the middle of the table is actually just a high quality wrapping paper (from Homegoods) that I folded and taped to run down the length on the dining table... 

I cleared all of our dishes out of the china cabinet and filled it with some sweets! 

Everyone loved watching Krista open up the little gifts for Elijah! Some of her facial expressions were priceless!!! 

 

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Great diaper wreath made by an extremely creative guest

Some Milkscreen so that mama can have her special juice 

 

And I had to throw in a gag gift... or rather a prank box...

Fun time had by all!!!

** Printables were done by On the Go Prints an etsy shop. I told the designer exactly what I wanted and she created custom listings for me in only days. She was so easy to work with, talented, and economical! I HIGHLY recommend using her. I know that I will be for all of my future party planning!

Holly's Baby Shower!

The day before Holly's shower I cleared out our living room... 

and the madness began.... 

Hunter was extremely helpful with the set up... In fact he felt that each chair should have a block... 

The night before I purchased flowers and finished cooking all of the yummy dishes that I could make ahead of time. 

And the next morning we had 18 smiling faces at my house ready to celebrate the pending arrival of Baby Ethan!!!... This is really where I failed to take final pictures of the details of the event but here are some celebratory photos! 

 

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Instead of a cake we did a doughnut hole tower that was drizzled in caramel... Side note... had a TON of doughnuts left over and I tried to make a few recipes out of them and they were all too sweet. Doughnuts are not a good substitution for bread crumbs in a dish. I would have been chopped if on the TV show.

Make the centerpieces the morning of the event

Kim, Purchased this super cute banner from etsy and we figured that Holly and Greg would be able to use it in his room later.

I covered the TV with craft paper and hung a banner over that so that it was not a huge eye sore in the middle of the room.

And here are a few other photos...

Holly and her Aunts!

Holly and her Mom!

And at the end of the event Hunter got to meet Kamden! I was interested to see how he would act with a real baby.

At first he was only interested in the doughnut Holes... but was very interested in looking at him and when Kamden cried he seemed very concerned.