showering baby

a few weeks ago i got to co-host a baby shower for my sister!! it was so much fun! it was my first opportunity to throw a shower or party of any kind for my lil sis b/c when she got engaged & married she was living in pittsburgh, pa - hard to throw a bridal shower in pa from co - so i had to settle for merely attending. but thanks to their (tina & matt's) big move to co a few years ago & their getting pregnant, it was finally my turn to try my hand at hosting an event. and, thanks to pinterest & the help of two of tina's close friends (liz & katherine), i think it went rather well :)

i had so much fun making the decorations & coming up the games. i know, games are not usually one of my favorite activities at a shower - so i tried to make it fun. we just played a short candy naming game (i made a conception, pregnancy, birth, first days phrase sheet to match the name of a popular candy) & then played a bingo game while tina opened presents to keep the givers occupied (i numbered the presents as they arrived. i had premade blank bingo cards & each guest got to fill in the numbers of the gifts - 21 - & choose their 4 free spots. then while tina opened the gifts she would announce the number.  the first 3 to get a bingo won!). i also made a Tis baby pool - since they don't know the sex of their little bundle of joy, for guests to fill in when they had a free minute. the categories on the pool sheet were - sex, birth date, time of birth, weight, length, hair & eye color and first initial of the name - since they are not sharing that either.

liz & katherine did an awesome job on the food & favors! we had a great turn out & all had a pretty good time - or at least looked like they were enjoying themselves ;) 

 some of the pinterest inspired decorations :)

 diaper cake & baby pool

liz's cute ideas of using mason jars for the punch & making a notebook of thoughts for the baby - she was going to put the notes in the photo album along with photos from the shower

 katherine's darling favors - thank you for 'popping' by - in the bags were popcorn, poptarts & cakepops!!

 kennedie & i filling out our guesses for our baby niece/nephew/cousin

 kennedie loves touching the baby in t.t's belly - she often says she has a baby in her belly too...i tell her not to rush into that :) & my & my preggo sis - she's in heals :)