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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Wonky Appetite

I don’t know if it’s the hot weather or what, but my appetite has been all wonky lately. Nothing really sounds good, but I have to eat! So my meals lately have been pretty random.

This afternoon I was looking through the fridge and cupboards trying to find something that sounded good. I came up with this:

Half of a cheese omelet and chunky peanut butter on Ritz crackers. Totally random, and yet totally satisfying. Whatever works!

This evening I went to my friend Jess’s house to make dinner for her, her husband, and another friend. She’s super pregnant with twins right now, and her baby shower is in a couple weeks, which I’m excited for. She has her baby room almost all set up, and it’s so cute!

For dinner I made a Santa Fe Foldover and they liked it!

It actually tasted really good to me, too. It’s weird because when I’m thinking about what to eat, I feel almost a little queasy, but then while I’m eating, I’m perfectly fine. Oh well, not going to worry about it.

Dobby made sure to do his part in helping by hiding his bone all over the house and supervising from the kitchen floor.

He now has four tricks in his arsenal: sit, shake, down, and roll over. Such a smart little cookie. He’s also doing pretty well walking on a leash. We went for a short walk down the street yesterday and he didn’t freak out! Yay!

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Question: Do you ever go through weird phases with your eating habits or appetite? How do you get back on track?