Saturday's Baby Shower

As I mentioned in last night's post, I have the best friends who threw me (and baby Charlie!) a fabulous shower over the weekend. I know a lot of people chipped in for this: Devon hosting, Laurisa designing invites and making spinach dip, Andrea, Erin, and Sarah helping with set up, Andrea making the best cookies and sangria, and Devon for planning so much - catering sandwiches, baking and decorating what looked to be "designer" cupcakes, welcoming us all into her amazing condo, planning a game in advance that even enlisted our parents, and so much more. There are surely things that were done by my girlfriends that I am either forgetting or didn't know about too, so really thank you to all of them. A couple friends even sent gifts across the country which was mighty unexpected and nice.  Guests came from NY, NJ, CT, PA, and TN - wow, quite a showing...THANK YOU ALL!



As you might have noticed our nursery is painted green and has lots of green in it - so the green cupcakes and plates/napkins/utensils were just right.  Also, I've got a little bit of a birds and the BEES theme going.

 The shower was a great excuse to get my sister up for a visit.  :)

 Both of my sisters - Maura and Elizabeth:

You can see how light filled and bright Devon and Andy's condo is here.  Huge windows and very tall ceilings.

Enjoying some wraps, cheese, and crackers, baked brie, and a little sangria and spiked coffee...

 After some visiting, it was on to gift opening:

And not surprisingly, everything was soooo, soooo cute and just incredibly thoughtful.

We've clearly already picked out what teams our little guy is going to cheer for: Hoosiers #1.  I'm okay with the Jets as #2.

Devon took a ton of pictures of me opening presents...and I'm glad someone got a shot of her! xo

With all these new goodies, it's amazing to have seen Charlie's room (and closet) go from this empty space to full of furniture and "stuff"...but not just any stuff.  It's all been picked out with care and it's just waiting for our precious baby. 

PS The one and only game we played was matching baby milestones and favorites to either Baby Pat or Baby Suz.  It was a fun and quick little shower game.  And I actually learned something new about myself: I was a "great crawler, but did not walk until 13 months."  I like how my mom put a positive spin on it.  :o)