Soooooo....my sister is having a baby!!!! Holla!
Okay so it's not exactly New News...you know, babies take some time...but it is still super exciting!
I don't mean this to sound like I don't love all my other nieces and nephews, because you can bet your butt that I do ( I LOVE THEM !)...but there is something super SUPER exciting about my very own sister having her very own baby. Do you guys know what I'm saying or is this crazy talk?
Anyhow, pretty much as soon as she told me, I started envisioning a shower for her. The shower actually kind of turned into this huge combined effort from my aunt, cousins, sister, sisters-in-law and my mom (five billion people love Heather...so everyone wanted to help), which was awesome! It made everything so much easier and there was a lot less to worry about!
Heather served her mission in Thailand and appropriately fell in love with elephants. She knew from the start-boy or girl-she was decorating with elephants. So that's what we used as a base for the shower.
Check out some of our details:
Okay so it's not exactly New News...you know, babies take some time...but it is still super exciting!
I don't mean this to sound like I don't love all my other nieces and nephews, because you can bet your butt that I do ( I LOVE THEM !)...but there is something super SUPER exciting about my very own sister having her very own baby. Do you guys know what I'm saying or is this crazy talk?
Anyhow, pretty much as soon as she told me, I started envisioning a shower for her. The shower actually kind of turned into this huge combined effort from my aunt, cousins, sister, sisters-in-law and my mom (five billion people love Heather...so everyone wanted to help), which was awesome! It made everything so much easier and there was a lot less to worry about!
Heather served her mission in Thailand and appropriately fell in love with elephants. She knew from the start-boy or girl-she was decorating with elephants. So that's what we used as a base for the shower.
Check out some of our details:
- So above and on the left you can see that I sewed together a bunch of triangles for a backdrop. We put it right behind our craft table and I thought it was a)super cute, and b)soooo easy.
- Do you guys see my cruise ship-style elephant??? Oh my gosh, isn't he cute? My mom whipped together a couple of receiving blankets and I found this super easy tutorial for shaping them into a little elephant.
- My cousin whipped out these cupcake topper toothpicks. So cute.
- We gad cupcakes and ice cream with hot fudge for our treats.
- Sometimes (okay, like all the time) I can't get over how talented my mom is in the sewing department. She busted out that elephant family in no time at all. Seriously, I think they were all done in less than an hour. So skilled.
- We also had a craft to do...which I'll talk about in just a sec.
My mom's sewing genius showed up in the gift she made Heather--this adorable quilt. Oh yeah, my mom totally made that.
So...Heather is totally not a fan of shower games. But we still wanted some sort of activity, so Linda thought of doing a onesie bar. I've gotta say, it was a huge hit! I was really impressed with how creative people got.
Everyone loved getting their craft on. And we had a huge variety of options, too, which made it extra fun.
We're so cheesy.
We needed a pic with my Momma too!
We had a totally fun night! I'm so glad we got all the help that we did! It made everything a breeze.
Can't wait to meet this Chiquita in less than a month (hopefully not much longer than that;)!!!!!
We had a totally fun night! I'm so glad we got all the help that we did! It made everything a breeze.
Can't wait to meet this Chiquita in less than a month (hopefully not much longer than that;)!!!!!