The shower was at Audrey Brown's house in NJ and was beautiful - a "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice" theme with lavendar (and other pastel) accents since Michelle and Kurt will be doing the baby's nursery in shades of purple and light blue. Here are the "diaper" napkins that Audrey made for each place setting and the baby bootie candy cup favors that I made:
Michelle is 6-1/2 months pregnant and looks adorable with her little tummy. Andrew and Yvonne Anderson came early to help us set up so we had a mini photo shoot before everyone arrived:
The guest of honor opening all of her gifts. Madelyn will be one well-dressed little girl since many people couldn't resist buying some of the adorable little girl clothes. She got dresses, panties, rompers...and even a robe with matching slippers to use after she takes a bath in her baby spa (seriously! Michelle even got a baby whirlpool tub!).
Michelle with her cake, a baby rattle shape that Aunt Audrey made. Adorable!
Some of the guests. There were approximately 20 women at the shower and Andrew brought Ben over towards the end to socialize with all of the ladies.
Audrey, Michelle and me.
My mom Lisa and Audrey.
Some of the girls from high school - Karen, Lindsay, Gillian and Jen.
Joy, Aunt Tina, Grandma Shaida, and Auntie Marian. Joy, Tina and Auntie drove down from Buffalo for the weekend.
Aunt Tina, Michelle, Auntie, Joy and me,
RuthAnn Struss, Rosemary Osbourne and Judy Imperial, friends from church.
Loretta Chester, her daughter Ali, Rose Egan, and Yvonne Anderson, more friends from church.
The high school gang again.
My mom and Aunt Audrey again.
My blog entry wouldn't be compelte without a few photos of my son! Here are some after Andrew and Ben came back for the end of the shower and after everyone left, since we spent the afternoon with Michelle at the Browns' house.
Ben and Aunt Chel.
Cruising around the house with his walker. We have a few of these walkers and lately Ben prefers the flimsiest one of them all since he can pick it up to reposition it and turn it easily. He is basically walking on his own with this thing since it has absolutely no support but if you take it away he's afraid to take the plunge and walk without it. Soon!
Andrew and Aunt Tina with Ben.
Aunt Tina, Joy and Auntie Marian came back to our house for the night after the shower, since we needed to be home for Sunday morning and it is on their way home. Here are just a few photos of everyone after church yesterday morning.
A family photo of us. We don't have too many of these since one of us is usually taking the picture. I think the last one is in November.
Finally, the Buffalo gang with the baby.
I also have uploaded all of my photos to Shutterfly so I believe that this link will allow you to access them: share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AZsm7di4cs2Oo Enjoy!
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2 comments:
Liz--It was great to see these pictures of Michelle's shower--sorry we missed it. I had already committed to the Make A Wish gala (black tie event)for that evening before we received the invitation. I plan to send her gift directly to her. How did she transport all those great gifts to Seattle? She did look cute and Ben is adorable--spitting image of Andrew! Take care, Aunt Judy
These pictures are so lovely. It brought back memories of your bridal shower. Especially nice to see Grandma Shaida. Congratulations to Michelle! And, congratulations on soon to becoming aunt. Sometimes, being an aunt is more fun than being mom!
Aliza
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