A Sweet Baby Shower | Our Footprints?..

With only a few more days to go until our little one arrives, I thought it was time to share pictures from my baby shower which was held a few weeks ago. I was honored with the pure joy of family and friends gathered to celebrate our little baby on the way. I am seriously the luckiest girl and have such great family and friends who traveled from Northern California just to attend and my sister who flew from Florida so that she wouldn?t miss the day ? seriously blessed! All of the decorations in the world can?t compared to the love that filled the room as the shower wouldn?t be the same without these people there.

The invitations were one of the my favorite elements of the shower. I wanted them to be simple and classy with just a touch of baby. Because we are not finding out the gender of the baby, this made it difficult to incorporate gender neutral colors. While we could have gone with something more neutral such as green or yellow, I ultimately love pink and wanted to incorporate that color into the shower, so we settled on baby blue and blush pink.

As I mentioned before, my family is a 7 hour drive away but they were still just as invovled as if they lived right around the corner. ?We made the invitations ourselves, while my Mom printed the envelopes and glued the envelope liners. ?I love the classic look of envelope seals and thought this would be the perfect touch of baby.?At our wedding 3 years ago, we created a candy buffet which I loved so much, so I wanted to create a station where guests could pick dessert items as they wished. For the baby blocks, my Mom and I found unpainted wooden ABC blocks at Hobby Lobby. I had Ryan scrape off one of the ?C??s and glued a ?Y? on instead. We used white hyngragea?s in decorated glass vases.

The wonderful ladies at Sweet & Saucy made the adorable carrot cake which I loved so much I didn?t want to cut into it.

Above the gift table, I displayed my weekly pictures which I have been taking since week 8. Because my family does not live close by and cannot see the baby?s progress I began taking these so they could see the growth throughout my pregnancy. I decided it might be a fun way for guests to also track the progress.

As I mentioned before, I love decorating with pink, so my Mom had to continuously remind me to use blue as well. She found these plates at Kirkland and because she is the best mom ever, she picked up 25 plates for us to use. I made salted carmel macrons for each guest to enjoy and placed them in the mini dessert cups.? ?

I am not a huge fan of traditional baby shower games, but the celebrity game never gets old. I took 15 celebrity baby bumps and using Photoshop put my head over their face. Guests had to guess who the celebrity bump was!

I loved the idea of a onesie decorating station which I had seen on many other blogs, but when it came down to it my Mom had a good point which was, ?Shan, you are going to have so many cute baby clothes, I can?t really see you putting your kid in one of these homemade onesies.? Which, well, is true. She brainstormed different ideas and came up with a onesie cookie decorating station. ?Perfect?, I said!

I made a double batch of sugar cookies using this recipe?(which made about 40 onesie cookies total) the weekend before and froze them. I was nervous that they weren?t going to be fresh, as I had never froze the cookies before, but thankfully, I couldn?t even tell a difference and they tasted as if they were just baked. I made 6 different colors of royal icing which was more than enough and filled them in 12oz bottles.

Each guest decorated a sugar cookie which was placed on the voting paper for everyone to cast their vote for the favorite cookie.

My sister ended up with the winning cookie!!!!!!! Seriously, some of the cookies turned out awesome. Once the cookies were dried, we packaged them up for each guest to take home.?

I was so blessed to have so much love at the baby shower and to have so many family and friends in the same room all together to celebrate our little one with us. ?So many people came together to help pull off such an amazing event. It seriously could not have been done without the help of everyone involved.

xoxo

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