Baby shower

I am finally here to show you how the baby shower turned out. It was a ton of fun to get ready for and everything turned out great. We wish more people had been able to come but it was worth it just the same. I was tending to a one year old during the shower so I only got in a few snapshots but I wanted to share them just the same.

This is what I did for favors. You can find the pattern here *NOTE: it appears this link is not currently working-seems to be a problem with their website. I have scanned my copy of THEIR pattern and have linked to it at the end of this post.  Please note that this is not my pattern-just my copy of their pattern.  There are no instructions included.  These take a bit of time to make but are so worth it. I found that double sided tape works the best to hold the pieces together. The pattern recommends glue but it was too messy and took too long to dry. I used a small pink brad to hold the strap in place. I found some pacifier shaped candy to fill them with. They turned out really cute.

As one of the shower games we wrote baby advice for the mom to be. I found this diaper card template here. I punched 2 holes in the overlapping part of the diaper and tied them with pink and white ribbon. You could use these for invites or thank yous too. The other game we played was a bingo game while the mom to be opened her gifts. Get bingo cards here. Each guest fills out their card with things they think will be opened as gifts. As the gifts are opened they cross off things on their card to get a bingo and a prize.

We had a lite lunch served at the shower. We had chicken salad sandwiches (chopped chicken, chopped celery, halved grapes, miracle whip, salt and pepper) chips and veggies.

To drink I found a strawberry daiquiri recipe (non-alcoholic of course) and just made a quadrupled batch. Super yummy.

Finally for dessert regular old cupcakes with a creamy lemonade frosting. You use 1 package of cream cheese (room temp), 1/2 cup butter (room temp), 3 tbsp thawed lemonade concentrate, and 3 cups of powdered sugar. I really loved the frosting; not to sweet and a bit tart. I dusted the tops with clear sanding sugar because it makes everything look sparkly.

One other thing that we did that I didn't get to take a picture of was we put up a clothes line and the mom to be brought some baby girl outfits and hair bows she had already received to display. What group of women does not love to ooh and aah over little baby clothes.

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