This weekend, I helped to host a baby shower for one of my friends who I taught with at Southwind years ago. There are six of us girls who taught together for several years that became friends and we are still going strong today. We have celebrated many weddings and babies together and I hope we continue to celebrate many more--babies that is, not weddings as we are all married now. :) Southwind was not the easiest place to start a teaching career and I can say with complete sincerity that I would not have been able to stay at that school for four years without these girls. They are the reason that I kept my sanity during those four years and I love them! This baby shower was a group effort and I think it turned it really well.
Friday night, I spent the evening prepping favors and decor for the next day. I made these pretzels to give away as little treats. You can probably guess that the baby is a girl...
They are super easy to make and are really festive and yummy. Here is the finished product:
My friends and I got to the restaurant early to decorate. Ashley scouted out some locations for the shower and booked a private room for us at Owen Brennan's. It was a great choice and we set to work making the room look festive (while drinking mimosas, of course).
We went with a pink and green theme and Sara made bunches of these cute tissue paper flowers that we used all over the room.
We incorporated some pink hydrangeas from Ashley's yard into the decor and also placed a framed copy of the shower invitation on the food table. More tasty food...
Here is the cake table. Jenny had these petit fours made and brought them and the cake stand from her home in Arkansas. They were delicious! You should have seen all of us trying to figure out how exactly to decorate this table. We changed it I don't even know how many times before we decided on this. We put one of the tissue paper flowers in the center of the cake stand and then Emily made a bow for the top as a finishing touch.
I made a couple of banners to go over the gift table. The first banner is of the baby's name--Caroline. I just made this on my trusty Cricut and tied it all together with ribbon. Then I got some jute to string up like a clothesline and used these cute Shabby Chic clothespin to pin up the onesies that I got to give to Brandy, the mother-to-be.
I got both a plain white and a plain pink onesie and ordered these cute iron-ons from Etsy to dress them up. They turned out SO cute!
Brandy and her mom drove up from Louisiana for the shower. It was the first time we had gotten to see Brandy and her baby bump and she looked so cute!
The guest of honor at her table
After eating, it was time to open gifts. Brandy got some really nice stuff.
We had a really good time and it was so good to see each other since we are now spread out over three states.
Congratulations, Brandy! I wonder who the next baby shower will be for...:)
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