Baby Shower

So, I'm kind of not very smart, and I don't know how to properly load pictures onto my blog (!!) so these might be in kind of a weird order, but I'm not changing them! We threw a baby shower for my sister-in-law, Ryan's Sarah (not to be confused with my sister-in-law Andy's Sarah :) She had her twin boys, Carter & Weston, on February 23. We had already been planning the shower for the 10th, then halted it when she delivered early, then resumed when we decided that it would still be fun to do!

My friend Lindsay (thanks again!) sent me a link for this adorable idea for an ice cream parlor for a party. I loved it and decided that I had to do it. I spent waaaaaaay more time on it over the next couple of weeks than I should have - putting off taxes and homework to get everything done. But it was so much fun. So, here are the pics and full detail for my sister-in-law Andy's Sarah, who couldn't make it!

I asked my mom to make two baby bundle cakes, and left her to that. Of course, she delivered, as always. These were the cutest things ever! I couldn't cut them, I made someone else do it! Then Ryan & I brought home a baby head for his family to eat. That was a little creepy!

So here are is the ice cream set-up. As always, I took more pictures of the decorations than anything else!

We decided that we needed something salty to cut all the sugar. We went with pretzels and popcorn. On this website, this lady used an popcorn bucket for her spoons, and when I saw the pattern, I knew I had to use the adorable popcorn bucket for something. So I blew it up, made 50 copies of it, cut them all out, glued them all together, and then glued a popcorn or pretzel tag onto the front (my mom totally helped me with all that - never would've gotten them all day myself!). They were soooooo cute!

This is a picture of our games. Sarah had invited quite a few people, so we didn't know how crowded it was gonna be. So rather than try some organized games with 30+ people, I just did some out on the counter that people could do if they wanted. We had "guess the baby food", a bottle full of jelly beans that you had to guess how many were in there (which, there were 114 and the winner guessed 113 - pretty impressive!), and a paper with a baby word scramble & seeing how many words you could make from the baby's names, Carter Ryan & Weston Glenn. We had a few prizes for the winners and then people weren't forced to participate if they were anti-baby shower games! Oh, we also played that game where you get 3 little clothes pins when you get there. Nobody is allowed to say "baby" or any form of it. If you catch someone saying it, you get one of their clothes pins, and vice versa. I think the winner ended up with like 14. I ended up with none!

Oh, and here's one final, random picture of the whole thing all together. I have to say, I was most proud of my triangle sign there. It was cute, and really quite easy to make.

And here's a picture of Sarah with all her volleyball girls. I just thought it was a cute picture of all of them!

Sarah opening presents... These are the car seat covers I made for her. I just made up the pattern, working off my memory of some that I saw. She's supposed to let me know how they work out for her so I can tweak them for the next time I made one if I need to.

Sarah's grandma knitted (I think) some blankets, booties, hats, and sweaters for the babies. They were really cute and must've taken her forever.

Overall, it was very fun. I loved how the ice cream parlor turned out and I saved all my signs and everything, so I hope I get a chance to use it again! And I hope Sarah had fun! She got a lot of homemade gifts that were super cute. Hopefully she's a little better equipped to bring home those babies!