A few weeks ago, Corrie called to ask me if I'd help her host a baby shower for our friends Will and Lezlie as they are expecting their first baby-- a sweet baby boy! (What's that like?) Since I had seen several Facebook posts by Will referring to their baby-to-be as "Little Man," I thought that would be the perfect little theme for the shower. You know I love a good theme. Bow ties and mustaches everywhere!
These softball boys tend to travel as a pack, so we thought it'd be best to do a coed shower, but to keep it a surprise from Lezlie. They live in Raleigh and were visiting for the weekend. It was so fun that she thought she was just showing up to our house for a softball get together, and it was in fact a gathering to celebrate their bundle of joy.
We hosted the shower at our house which can be stressful from the cleaning--and keeping clean-- perspective, but it makes it easy to decorate as I had time. Make a banner one night, do some bow tie garland the next. Harper even helped me whip a diaper cake in about twenty minutes. I may have gone through an entire blade on my paper cutting machine, but I was able to do all the decorations for about $15. It makes things a lot less stressful the day of for sure because the only thing I needed to do on Saturday was pick up balloons and whip up my food contributions of little "man"wiches (chicken salad on croissants, pimento sandwich quarters, and poppyseed ham and cheese sliders). Corrie and Rachel brought the rest!
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| Mama to Be Lezlie |
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It may go down as the longest baby shower of all time because all twenty adults and 9 kiddos stayed from the 5 p.m. start time until at least midnight, and we got to host Will & Lezlie and the Cromers overnight. I think we all had a great time congratulating our dear friends and
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