Yesterday was such a busy day! I slept in an extra two hours today to recover from all of the excitement. My family and friends threw me the world's best baby shower, no word of a lie. There was an amazing homemade meal, a super-cutely decorated venue, the gifts were out-of-control, and of course all of my favourite ladies were there to celebrate Little Ninja. It was the best!
I only have a few pictures to share because I was so busy schmoozing but here are a few details.
I couldn't resist making some cute homemade cupcakes for the occasion. I used my little alphabet stamper, some scrapbook paper, one of my paper punches, and some sprinkles to decorate them. I use this recipe whenever I make vanilla cupcakes. Sooooo yummy. Let's forget how much butter there is in the recipe, k?
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| Baby Shower Cupcakes |
My mom got all crafty and whipped up an adorable little diaper cake. I think it's the cutest one I've ever seen. I might be biased, though. :)
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| Baby Shower Diaper Cake |
Everyone told us to wait until after the baby shower before buying any clothes for the little guy. I was panicking a bit because our dresser drawers were practically empty and his due date was getting closer and closer. I'm glad I waited because dude cleaned up. I decided to use my new wire basket as a little laundry hamper and it is now FULL of little sleepers and outfits. And these are only the clothes that are 0-3 months! We have a huge pile of 6-9 month outfits and 9-12 month outfits. I think I might need a bigger dresser now. Aren't they adorable? That froggy hat? Seriously?!?
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| Baby Shower Loot |
We are so grateful for the love and generosity. Alex was a bit sad that he missed all the fun but he felt better once he got to put his boy skills to use by assembling the highchair and stroller.
I think we're feeling a bit more prepared. Sort of.
AHHHH!
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$50 Royal Design Studio Stencil Giveaway Winner
I want to thank everyone who entered the Royal Design Studio stencil giveaway that I held last week. It was really fun to read all of your comments and to hear which stencils you would choose and where you'd use them. I'm excited to announce that the winner of the $50 stencil is commenter #84:
Janice from Life Begins at Thirty, Right?
I stumbled upon her blog a month or so ago and have been following along ever since. She's preggers with a little boy too...... AND she's a fellow Canadian. Cool, eh? {Haha, that was a joke.}
Congratulations Janice and I'll get you in touch with the peeps at Royal Design Studio a.s.a.p.!!!
OMG. Your post popped up in my feed and I seriously was crossing my fingers as I clicked over to see if I won. YAY!! Honestly, it has been a goal of mine for a while to do a stencil in our vestibule so I'm super pumped to win! Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteAs for the shower, how adorable. You weren't kidding about your little guy cleaning up!! I think we need some more pics of the cuteness :-)
Woot woot! I'm so excited that you won!
DeleteHere's a tip though, don't wait until you are at the end of your third trimester to stencil the wall like I did!!! Hahaha. :)
Love the little froggy hat, he is going to be just adorable in it! Congrats to the winner of the stencil giveaway too!
ReplyDeleteI love it, too. Definitely one of the cutest scores of the weekend. :)
DeleteLooks like it was so fun!!! Thinking of you as the big date approaches and I am SO glad you are on ML... I love all these posts!! Enjoy your time off.
ReplyDeleteAwww, thank you so much. I'm kind of loving this maternity leave thing too.
DeleteNow how can I stay on maternity leave forever without turning into Michelle Duggar???
Such cute clothing and I love your sweet little cupcakes!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Janice!!
Thanks Colleen!
DeleteSo cute my ovaries are hurting! :)
ReplyDeleteThis made me LOL. ;)
DeleteAw! Congratulations! Shower day is always so exciting! Those cupcakes look yum and cute:) Psyched that you got tons of clothes for him, that's awesome. Start the thank you notes now while you have time;)
ReplyDeleteOh man, last time I did thank you notes for our wedding I procrastinated for about two months (okay more like four months)(so bad I know!!!).
DeleteThanks for the advice, I think I'll pick up the cutest giraffe ones that I saw at Chapters the other day. I'll just close my eyes when she's ringing up the total since they cost a fortune.... ;)
Pretty nice post, I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have truly enjoyed surfing around your blog posts. In any case I will be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again very soon!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Glad you like it here and thanks for stopping by and taking the time to leave me a comment. :)
DeleteI've been subscribing to your posts for a couple of months and really enjoy them. All of a sudden, I don't receive them any more. Could this be a problem from your end of things?
ReplyDeleteThanks.
Oh no! I was worried that something like this might happen when I switched templates.
DeleteDo you subscribe by email or by RSS feed? That will help me figure out the problem. Hopefully!!!
:) Thanks for letting me know!
It looks like you a had a really fun shower! SO cute. I really really love your blog so I've nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award! Please stop by when you get a moment to check it out. :-)
ReplyDeleteLittle dude did clean up! Love your cupcakes. Mine always seem to bleed through and you can never see the pattern on the cupcake liner.
ReplyDeleteTwo weeks till there's a little baby in all those clothes ;)