Baby Love

Saturday was my friend Jess’s baby shower, and it went really well!

I made Courtney’s Orange Cream cupcakes to use as prizes for the baby game I had planned. Considering I didn’t have a clue about frosting techniques, and I was decorating them at 2:00 in the morning, they turned out pretty cute!

I also made cinnamon muffins, but they turned out ugly, so no pictures of those.

A group of us helped plan the shower, and we were each in charge of putting together a table centerpiece. Here’s mine (which I threw together at the last minute because I was running late… oops!).

I used blue and turquoise water beads to fill the vase. If you haven’t seen these before, they are pretty cool. You soak them in water for a few hours and they go from this:

….To this:

And then they get to be the size of marbles (the ones above grew until they completely filled that container), and they keep your plants hydrated. They last for a long time and can be reused too!

Another awesome centerpiece made by Jess’s sister-in-law:

She also made the cake and come cupcakes for the guests! So cute!!!

Party pics:

The haul:

I need to get married and have kids ASAP. But only for the gifts…. Haha, just kidding! 😉

The party was in Jess and John’s backyard. Isn’t it beautiful?

The food (already eaten… I was too slow to get a good picture):

One of the games was a contest to see who could create the best baby figure out of clay. One of our friend’s four-year-old daughter made these:

“Here you go Jess, your twins are going to look just like this.”

Jess with her nana and the awesome cake:

Opening gifts:

Me (my makeup had pretty much melted off of my face by then… scroll down really fast so maybe I’ll still look okay):

Friends (we’ve known each other since we were little girls):

A successful party! Jess was exhausted, but she got some super cute things for the twin baby girls.

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