Monday, July 25, 2011

Piper's Second Shower: Sock Monkeys!

My best-good friend from college, Heather, along with husband Zach, threw Piper, Tyler, and Me a fun co-ed baby shower with a Sock Monkey theme :)

Heather thought of every detail and was truly a wonderful host! Thank you Heather and Zach for opening your home to 40 of our closest friends and family members. That is no small feat!

Heather and Me in front of her awesome diaper cake and "candy bar" filled with red, brown and cream colored candies.

Another view of her adorable cake which not only included diapers, but adorable flower hair clips for Piper :)

The tables were adorned with red flowers in vases from our wedding, colorful sock monkey's that Tyler's mom and step-dad gave us, and old photos of us as kids!

Megan and I made paper boxes for the gift card prizes we gave away for fun contests like baby bottle beer guzzling, diaper sniffing, gift bingo, and guess the $ amount in the basket.

Delicious vanilla and red velvet cupcakes Heather made from scratch - YUM!

Let the beer guzzling begin!



Curtis WINS! But we're not sure if biting the nipple off the bottle is cheating? LOL!

Start sniffing! Each diaper has a different melted candy bar in it and whoever guesses the most candy bars correctly wins the prize! (Andrea!)




EEEEW!

We had such a great turnout and it was really fun to see all our friends and family so excited about Piper and participating in all the silly games we had planned. Our friends and family are such amazing people and we adore them so much... never a dull moment!

Mike B

Brittany & Merek

Brianne - Boo-Yah!

Asher with Grandma Stacie

John, Robbie & Isabel

Cristina

Dedra

Heather

Ryan & Andrea

Brittany

We're so amazed at everyone's generosity and all the sweet, sweet gifts and books for Piper! She is one blessed and spoiled little girl already - thanks to our incredible family and friends :) She won't need clothes for a YEAR - LOL!

We loved this soft giraffe and the sweet music it played

The tiny clothes were just adorable! We were ooohing and aaahing at every outfit!

Itty bitty shoes :)

An awesome bike trailer from Grandma and Grandpa so Tyler can take Piper on bike rides <3

Trevor was SO clever and had several onesies screen-printed with hilarious sayings

Ruffles, ruffles, and more ruffles - I can't get enough of them!! SO CUTE!

This is my "I can't believe the time Lenore spent on this" face :) She hand-crocheted the prettiest little blankie for Piper... what a labor of love!

Diapers are an AWESOME gift

A sock monkey basket filled with all kinds of goodies from hairbows and a brush to nail clippers and desitin... all the little things you forget about.

And the new cult classic for parents: Go the F**K to Sleep! I'm sure there will be nights when Tyler and I refer to this as therapy :)

Thank you to ALL who attended - what an amazing baby shower. We can't wait for each of you to meet our baby girl... just 4 more weeks!!!!

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Maternity Photo Shoot

**CAUTION - there are bare belly pics below that you may/may not want to see**

With that out of the way... my very dear friend and co-worker, Jessica Harrington, took these beautiful photos of Tyler and Me... and Baby Piper. I thought for sure I'd HATE them, but many, many friends encouraged me to do them anyway - stating I'd treasure them later - and I already do :)

I'm so glad we have them and so many turned out just beautifully. Thank you Jess! Please observe for yourself below!

**Moms, Dads, other family... if you'd like a copy of any of these, please let me know which photo(s), what size(s) and I'll print and/or frame for you**

XOXO - Kelsey & Tyler