Alana's Baby Shower!

My sister-in-law and I planned a baby shower for my niece -who's having a girl!!  

She selected Whispering Pines Lodge as the venue for the shower. 

This lodge is GORGEOUS and made decorating a CINCH! Honestly, we could have done without 

decor and it still would have been beautiful!  But, where's the fun in that?! 

If you browse through the pictures and previous post, you'll quickly find I did not carry a set theme throughout all the pieces (the invites, gift suggestions, shower decor, games, etc).   Using Pinterest, I found ideas I liked and got my sister-in-laws ideas and put them together to make this shower.  

 I'll let you be the judge on whether that worked for, or against us. 

 

My favorite part of the table was the fresh flowers! 

Once again, I used Shanty to Chic's printable banner to create this one for the shower.

Spoiled!! This is only a portion of the presents she got! We love this baby already!

My sister-in-law bought these cute pom poms to go over the food

 

Here's a fun view from the balcony above

For activities and games, we played What's in Your Phone, How big is Her Belly, 

Baby Jeopardy, & Match the Baby Socks. We ended with a sentimental activity-Dear Baby.  The shower guests enjoyed themselves and most importantly my niece loved it!!

 

I had a blast planning this shower! I'm so grateful my sister-in-law and niece let me be a part of the planning and can't wait til this baby girl is born!!

Planning a Baby Shower!

I'm going to be a GREAT aunt-my niece is having a baby girl!  To help the shower guests with gift ideas, I made a list of items she doesn't have around a "time" theme.  Traditionally with this theme, each guest is assigned a specific time; however, I don't plan to make assignments.

Here is the original post I found on a baby time theme: Time of Day Baby Shower

I created both of these photos using my favorite app, here is her website: Rhonna Designs

Only a few more weeks and it's baby shower time!

Do One Thing Everyday That Scares You

What's more boring than a homebody?  Two homebodies! 

One of our goals this year is to "get out" more.  I've been mesmerized by this challenge to "do one thing everyday that scares you"  For an introvert, that includes socializing with other people!

Last week, my good friend invited my husband and I to go country dancing in an old barn, she assured us there's a large enough group to easily go unnoticed.  I had made up my mind I was going to do this "scary" thing and...we followed through and went! And even enjoyed ourselves!

Country dancing was on Saturday; on Monday, Ivan scored some tickets from work to a Jazz game.  

 

We were excited because they were floor tickets

Our tickets included dinner-a prime rib buffet.  Yummo! 

Honestly, I was just happy I didn't have to make dinner!

 

One side of the dining area had the city scape and the other side was the basketball court.  We joked about how we would prefer to watch the game in the silent dining room overlooking the court.  But alas, we had come this far and we ventured to find our "floor seating".

As we went down portal F to be directed to row A where our seats were located, Ivan asked if I was ready.  Prior to driving down, he said in jest that we might be on T.V., this sent me into a nervous frenzy and hearing the roaring crowd made my fear OH SO REAL.

Turns out the ambiguous "floor seating" portal F row A, meant FRONT ROW seating, our feet were on THE COURT!  I was a seat away from the assistant coach, trainers, and JAZZ PLAYERS!
I felt waaay more important than I'd like to, fidgeted the entire time I sat there but made it through the first half where we switched with Ivan's coworkers.

These were our seats for the second half. Second row seating!

Needless to say, we had a blast doing something outside our ordinary boring selves!