Liz's Surprise Baby Shower

On Saturday, January 21, 2006 my four friends - Amy Kriebel, Julia Spencer, Heather Ferrence, and Julie Delp - threw me a wonderful baby shower at Amy's house in Harleysville, PA. Approximately 30 of our closeby family members and my girlfriends were able to make it out for the special day. The girls know that I love to read so they gave the shower a "children's book" theme and every guest was asked to bring her favorite childhood book as a wishing well gift. Thank goodness we purchased a bookshelf for the baby's room because we certainly have plenty of books to put in it now. To go along with the theme, the girls made beautiful hand-stamped bookmarks as shower favors for each guest, which had a poem printed on them from "Baby Martin." I may be a bit biased, but it definitely was a perfect shower!

Above is me with all of the girls: (l-r) Julia, Heather, Liz, Amy, and Julie.

And here we all are again with Andrew's step mom, Cheri Martin, and my mom, Lisa Caulfield.

The girls prepared a delicious spread of food and were considerate enough to make items that I was allowed to eat per my diabetic diet!

What a cute cake! I love frogs so the girls got a froggie cake and used a frog motif on some of the shower "extras" as well.

Like most showers, much of the time was spent opening all of the beautiful and generous gifts that everyone gave to us. We were fortunate enough to receive so many things that will be useful for us over the next few months, both in decorating the nursery and for when the baby does arrive. Below are some photos that I've prescreened and allowed to be posted on the Internet :) ...and remember that the camera adds ten pounds (at least that is what I'm telling myself!):



My goodness, does someone this little really need all of these things!?! I was completely out of breath after opening some of the larger items, even though I had lots of help.


The ADORABLE froggie chair from Aunt-to-be Maggie will go perfectly in our animal-themed nursery.


So many cute little outfits! Although she wasn't able to be there for the occasion, this one was sent by my good friend, Sandra, in Holland. The baby isn't even born yet and already he has an international wardrobe!


The Alphabet Soup Toddler Quilt is adorable. This is the last item that we needed from the bedding ensemble so now the crib is fully adorned and just awaiting the nursery to be complete.


One of Nana Caulfield's famous gift baskets! It was almost painful to disassemble it since she had it pieced together so perfectly...

Dad-to-be Andrew decided to stay at the baby shower while the two grandpas-to-be and some of the other men went out for dinner. He enjoyed seeing all of the gifts being opened and was a big help moving some of the larger items!