When Keenan and I found out that Jill and Alan were pregnant we were SO excited. My next thought was....Oh, we should throw them a shower! Yep, because thats how my mind thinks. After throwing around a few ideas and dates, we decided on a gender reveal. I started looking at things on the internet and on pinterest to get some ideas. For as popular as they have become, I am surprised at how little there is on the internet about them!
We wanted to have it here and I wanted to do it outside since there were so many people invited! I had everything all planned out, when food would be cooked, when decorations were made, when everything was put into the yard. Then, the forecast changed. Yep, rain. That changed plans a bit. Even the day of we were trying to decide if we should chance it outside or not (we decided to not). Oh, and a few days before this, our upstairs air handling unit went out. Oh, man. So now I was trying to put everyone in our house and a crazy hot upstairs. Luckily, the only reason people would be going upstairs was to go to the bathroom. It really ended up being fine (other than the fact that it is still out!).
So, people inside. Lots of people, lots of food. We ended up setting up tables in the garage, thanks to Keenan cleaning it out (sweeping, etc) and Kelli decorating the tables. Huge thanks to Anna who seriously cooked almost all of the food. I was more like a general manager :), keeping it all going, ha! I also had a crazy, fussy baby on my hands! I mentioned in a post yesterday about how rough Sunday was for us. By the time the shower started, she had only slept a cumulative 1 hour and normally by that point she would have slept about 4. You can imagine what it was like! Yesterday though, she took at 2 hour nap in the morning and a 2 1/2 hour one in the afternoon.....that I had to wake her up from! She was tired!!!
Anyways, we set up the eating area in the garage, decorated the tables and put all the food/gender reveal things in the kitchen. It worked out really well! Things that were for the gender reveal were the lips/mustaches for everyone to pick and get some pics of it. I also had a chalkboard for people to cast their vote! Jill and Alan had made cupcakes with the centers revealing boy or girl and they also had make a painting to reveal the name. So, here are the pics from the shower and I am just going to spoil it: Its a girl! And they are going to name her Hannah Catherine!!!! How beautiful!
We wanted to have it here and I wanted to do it outside since there were so many people invited! I had everything all planned out, when food would be cooked, when decorations were made, when everything was put into the yard. Then, the forecast changed. Yep, rain. That changed plans a bit. Even the day of we were trying to decide if we should chance it outside or not (we decided to not). Oh, and a few days before this, our upstairs air handling unit went out. Oh, man. So now I was trying to put everyone in our house and a crazy hot upstairs. Luckily, the only reason people would be going upstairs was to go to the bathroom. It really ended up being fine (other than the fact that it is still out!).
So, people inside. Lots of people, lots of food. We ended up setting up tables in the garage, thanks to Keenan cleaning it out (sweeping, etc) and Kelli decorating the tables. Huge thanks to Anna who seriously cooked almost all of the food. I was more like a general manager :), keeping it all going, ha! I also had a crazy, fussy baby on my hands! I mentioned in a post yesterday about how rough Sunday was for us. By the time the shower started, she had only slept a cumulative 1 hour and normally by that point she would have slept about 4. You can imagine what it was like! Yesterday though, she took at 2 hour nap in the morning and a 2 1/2 hour one in the afternoon.....that I had to wake her up from! She was tired!!!
Anyways, we set up the eating area in the garage, decorated the tables and put all the food/gender reveal things in the kitchen. It worked out really well! Things that were for the gender reveal were the lips/mustaches for everyone to pick and get some pics of it. I also had a chalkboard for people to cast their vote! Jill and Alan had made cupcakes with the centers revealing boy or girl and they also had make a painting to reveal the name. So, here are the pics from the shower and I am just going to spoil it: Its a girl! And they are going to name her Hannah Catherine!!!! How beautiful!
1 comments:
Diana Maria said...
Haha, that's how my brain goes in response to good news like "I'm engaged/pregnant/turning 28" and I go "let's throw a shower/party!" :) Such a sweet party!