Welcome to my oldest daughter's new home.
They moved in last December and she has
been willing to host parties ever since -
I trained her well!!!
Today we are throwing a baby shower dinner
for my youngest daughter who is expecting
a baby boy in three weeks.
I spent all day blowing up balloons
and decorating with them.
The only way to do this is to purchase an
which are both reasonably priced. I purchased
a variety of balloons online, but my favorite
was a kit that included some large and small
and metallic gold balloons.
It came with a
plastic garland that I could tie the balloons
onto. (It recommended just slipping the knots
in the holes, but they kept falling out so I
tied two to three balloons together with curling
ribbon and then tied the ribbon into the holes.
It came with enough plastic garland to do both
of these. I loved using her chandeliers in the
kitchen to create a second garland.
The tablescape today centers around a beautiful
white and gold board my son custom made for
me just for this event. If you have been following
me for a while, you know I love to create wonderful
chocolate, cheese, and charcuterie boards, so this
was such a thoughtful gift. He told me he is making
me another one because he says my daughter will
never give this one up!
It's so beautiful it could sit out on either of
our counters permanently. It is an eight food length of
quarter-sawn oak, whitewashed, with a gold foot on it.
It will be fun to
arrange all of my ingredients for the pizza
oven on it.
Chocolates of
every kind and fruit filled the board, along with
some fresh flowers in blue Ball jars.
I glittered HE on a few Hershey bars to add to the board.
The board featured two cakes, the white one made
by my oldest daughter, and the chocolate strawberry
one made by my daughter in law.
They have both been watching Cake by Courtney videos
and are making stunning cakes. The white one is Courtney's
Biscoff cake (oh my!) and the chocolate one is Courtney's
Strawberry Nutella Cake. All of her recipes are amazing
and she has such wonderful and instructive videos.
She also teaches classes in Salt Lake City, but we hear
they sell out immediately. My 4 year old loves watching
her videos and knows all of the tools and language,
and gets up in the mornings begging to make cakes!
It was really fun putting it together in her beautiful
and spacious kitchen.
The daddy to be loves Calvin and Hobbes, and
they are naming this little one Calvin, so I
made some cute cookies for them.
I have the best group of friends, and we always
support each other putting these kinds of
events together. One is missing tonight because
her father just passed away, but she sent food
for the shower anyhow.
They made a Winger's Sticky Finger Salad,
and a fall fruit and nut salad,
and two kinds of sliders. They asked what her favorite
food was, and I said she loved sliders, so they made
ham and cheese sliders and pizza sliders. They were
a huge hit and just the right size with everything
else we had.
My other daughter in law made the blue and white
sugar cookies in the background.
The Mama to be is ready to pop, but so excited! They
have been trying to get pregnant for some time,
so they are thrilled.
She was absolutely spoiled in every way, but one of
her favorite gifts were these Calvin and Hobbes
prints for the nursery wall.
Thanks for sharing in our joy with her baby shower.
It takes a village to raise a child, and the whole
village came out to support and love her.
I told my woodworking son I want to come work
at his shop for a while. I have always wanted
to learn woodworking skills and when I was
eight years old I asked for a saw and wood. Now
that I have a woodworker in the family, I need
him to teach me.
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