Baby Shower for my Baby Boy!

March 22nd, 2010

Just a week ago Sunday my family threw me a baby shower (lead by THE party planner in the family my sis and biz partner Joy).  The theme was based around my cravings during this pregnancy and the colors plucked right from one of my favorite ribbon details, the brown and turquoise stripes.  Check out the ADORABLE invitations she made:

And here’s the spread:

So just about every ‘workday’ at Joy’s house during the first part of this pregnancy I made myself a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich so for the shower they made grilled cheese and tomato on triscuits – SO CUTE!   Then there were the deep fried pickle chips…I mean really, need I say more?  My sister Patti’s homemade mac and cheese, some bread with Tuscan Dipping oil, are you grasping the amount of ‘salt’ that  I have ingested over the past 9 months?  LUCKILY for my ever swelling ankles, I have also craved fruit, particularly cutie oranges of which I can blindly eat three in 5 minutes and barely blink an eye.  CAN’T GET ENOUGH of the cutie oranges…

And of course, the ever present, ever fabulous Cupcake Tower.  Cupcakes were provided by ‘Lovely Confections Bakery’ and we indulged in ‘Bees Knees’ (Lavender Cake with Honey Lemon Buttercream), Vanilla with Chocolate frosting, Chocolate with Chocolate frosting and my favorite of the day the Carrot with Cream Cheese Frosting.  Most of her ingredients are organic and locally sourced so both yummy and good karma!

Here’s some more fun pics of the party:

Myself and Grace with her Grandma’s

My little cupcake:

Check out this gorgeous blanket made by my cousin-in-law Rose, she is SO talented.  She just so happens to have an Etsy Store ’RosesBloom‘ where she sells recycled yarn.  How cool is that?

and finally, Grace got to open a couple of gifts too and one of her favorites was a pack of ‘Big Girl’ panties…she couldn’t stop checking herself out!