We got so many great things that we still needed.
A beautiful cake (with our nicknames—everyone in his family has a nickname).
I cut the cake and we all simply had a great time.
We got so many great things that we still needed.
A beautiful cake (with our nicknames—everyone in his family has a nickname).
I cut the cake and we all simply had a great time.
My sister and I decided to have a joint baby shower for two reasons
1. It would save our parents a ton of money and
2. with both of us living so far from “home” and only 4 weeks apart in pregnancy, it didn’t make sense to have two separate ones.
That was the easy part.
The most difficult part was choosing a theme and then coordinating everything to go along. We eventually narrowed it down to “Mommy to BEE” (a bumblebee theme) and “Ready to POP”, both of which we found a ton of stuff on Pinterest. We ended up going with the POP theme because my sister is already a mom, so it worked better for us. We changed the wording to “Going to POP” because I would only be 23 weeks and she would be 27 weeks at the shower (we aren’t quite “ready” yet).
Unfortunately, running around, I didn’t get to take pictures of everything, but I will try my best over the next few weeks to get some more pictures and also recipes for all of the wonderful dishes we had.
We had customized stickers made from Vistaprint that went on our LolliPOP tree, as well as tied around our favors. We used Bubbles as our favor (one of the thing I don’t have a picture of).
We also made a LolliPOP tree using tootsie pops and blow pops.
We also had Oreo Dipped Chocolate POPs that I wasn’t able to get a picture of yet.Lastly, we had a small popcorn bar. I blogged about making these adorable scrapbook popcorn cones a few weeks ago and it was a success with the kids!
When my sister and I first decided to have a joint baby shower together back home, one of the things we really wanted to do was a gender reveal. We both thought it was such a such cute idea. What we didn’t realize it that not only were people going to want to KILL us, but keeping the secret would be so hard! For the most part, we kept it a secret…I slipped and told my mom about a week after I found out, even though I continued to deny I ever slipped until the reveal and my sister very noticeably slipped the day before the baby shower, also to our mom.
The most difficult part was deciding how to do the gender reveal. There are tons of ideas on Pinterest, but we decided to go two different ways (and thank God we did).
First, we had decided to do a reveal cake. Essentially you do a layered cake (we did 9 inch round cakes) and between the 2 layers you put either pink or blue icing. We went we a buttercream icing and used food coloring for dye.
(sorry it’s hard to see the pink in the pic).
A few days before the shower we decided that since there would be a lot of kids at the party (this was very much a family affair) we could have the kids to the reveal. We took black balloons (you can use any dark color that you won’t be able to see through) and put pink confetti in them. The idea was that we would go outside and have the kids play a game to see who could POP the balloon first and reveal the gender by having to Pop them by only using their butts. (**sorry I don’t have pics of the balloons since we weren’t able to do this).
Luckily, we continued to go with the gender reveal cakes as it decided to rain the day of the shower and we weren’t able to go outside. While we could have done it inside, I don’t believe the clean up would have been as fun!!
Everyone swore I was having a boy, except for like 2 people, so they were so surprised that it was a girl 🙂
This is just the first in a series of posts about both finding out about the gender and about the baby shower so continue to check back for more posts 🙂
Next, with a pen or pencil, draw an arch on the paper. I wanted these to be fairly large, so The arch starts almost in the middle of the page. If you want shorter cones, make your arch closer. This will be your template.
Next, cut out the template and trace on each additional piece of scrapbook paper that you are using until you have the desired number of cut outs.
Next, overlap the sides. It needs to be tighter than the picture below, but that was somewhat difficult to hold and take a picture 😉
Depending on your cutting skills, some of them may have a slight overlap issue…not to worry….
Just cut off the excess to make them even.
There will be a post next week of the whole shower, so keep checking back 🙂
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