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Surprise Baby Shower!

August 22, 2012 by Larisha Campbell Leave a Comment

I’m the type of person that LOVES surprises, but HATES knowing that there’s a secret being kept from me. Andrew gets so frustrated because if I know he’s trying to surprise me, I ask a ba-zillion and one questions! On Sunday, he told me I needed to wear a nice dress because we were going out. I immediately knew something was up because when I went to get dressed he was putting on khakis and a white t-shirt. I immediately asked him why he wasn’t dressing up and he said we had to stop by his parents house because he found some clothes there when he was helping them move stuff last weekend. I knew something was up but I just went with it.

When we pulled up to his parents his brother’s best friend was getting out of his car and I immediately thought I knew what was going on. I was still shocked when I walked into the house and everyone said surprise.

Andrew’s family is quite small and we haven’t really been in New Jersey long enough for us to have a lot of friends, so I was not expecting a baby shower here at all.

I hate being the center of attention for anything. Luckily, the only embarrassing thing that happened was them making me put this hat on for a few minutes.

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.

I’m truly blessed to have Andrew & his family. I can’t believe he kept a secret from me!!

What is the most surprising thing your significant other has done for you during your pregnancy??

Going to POP…Deciding on a Baby Shower Theme

July 26, 2012 by Larisha Campbell 2 Comments

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 tried to think of as many things with the word POP in it for found, but essentially around round you can convert into something “POPable”. Our main food consisted of: Ham & Cheese POPable sandwiches, POPcorn chicken, POPable meatballs, and Pizza POPS. Additionally, we had some amazing desserts… One of my favorites was a watermelon cradle that we found on Pinterest and Andrew actually carved out. He added blueberries for hair as his own personal touch (I loved it). We said this was POPable fruit.

We also made homemade POPtarts. These were simply amazing. We filled them with cherry or apple filling and they were just so cute.

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!

We did our entire shower for about $300 and it was a huge success!! Be on the look out for upcoming recipes and money saving baby shower tips soon!

It’s a GIRL!!!!!!!!!!….Gender Reveal

July 25, 2012 by Larisha Campbell 2 Comments

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.

We cut into our cakes with everyone around….

And revealed that both of us are having girls!!!!!

(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 🙂

Did you do a gender reveal?? How did you do it?

Scrapbook Party Cones

July 12, 2012 by Larisha Campbell 2 Comments

My baby shower is quickly approaching (next weekend). My sister and I actually decided to have a joint baby shower since we both live so far from where our family is located. After deciding on a “Pop” theme we located lots of great ideas for solutions on Pinterest.

We are on a limited budget, so it’s super necessary to find solutions. We loved the idea of a popcorn bar but couldn’t afford a ton of those theater style holders that you can pay a lot of money for. So, I loved the idea using scrapbook paper for popcorn holders to make scrapbook party cones. I literally have tons of 12×12 scrapbook paper laying around so this actually didn’t cost us anything to do.

So here’s what I did:

First, pick out scrapbook paper. You can use whatever you already have on hand or buy colors specific to your party. We went with a variety of colors because we are having a gender reveal at the shower as well.

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.