This weekend I was able to throw my younger sister a baby shower for her first baby that will be due at the beginning of April. I've thrown one other baby shower in the past but still feel very new to the whole shower thing.
Alyson isn't much for having the attention on her so she requested that we keep it low key and close family and friends. Okay, that sounds pretty easy to do! And you know what? I feel like it went fantastically!
While coming up with decorations I decided to keep the colors consistent with my sister's colors for the baby room. That way if she likes the decorations she can use them in the baby room because let's be honest, what would I do with them when we're done? So- brown and light green it was!!
What was on the menu you may ask? Well just America's favorite snack- rice krispy treats! But with a little twist- cupcake rice krispies. Find the recipe here. Then we kept it healthy with a fruit cup of various fruit followed by a homemade fondue created with a simple crock pot and mason jars with chocolate, homemade caramel, and marshmallow. Washin' that down with some delicious OJ or water (simple. classy).
Since I'm a little A.D.D. myself I always feel like there has to be a little activity for people to participate in in between conversing, eating, and watching presents being opened. Since it was a come and go as well as "low key" I kept it simple with a baby word search, baby word scramble, a baby sweets game, and my new favorite --- a game where you take the mom's face and dad's face and cut and paste what you think the baby will look like! Originally seen here. I must say- people got very creative and viewing the results were pure comedy.
All in all we had an amazing turn out with grandmas, aunts, cousins, sisters, and friends... and how could we forget our FAVORITE little peanut Sidney :)
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| The drinks and treats. |
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| Baby Shower games and gifts |
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| Opening presents and taking names! |
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| Grandmas, Aunt Kim, and Sid |
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| Huh?! |
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| Group shot!! |
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| The beautiful mom-to-be and me ;) |
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| My youngest sister B with Mom-to-be |
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| The most precious little smiling toddler around!! |
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| Absolutely precious |
All in all I had a fantastic time and would do it again in a heartbeat!! Thanks to all our friends and family for showing up and making Alyson's day so amazing!
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