Baby Showers and Sprinkles!

[Foxy]

Share with us! 😍

[Foxy]

My baby shower was on the 13th, we did a co-ed shower that a few friends threw for me at my house. We had roughly 40 people over for a bbq. We did do a book instead of a card + diaper raffle which I know comes off gift grabby but I have to say it's really nice to have a stash of diapers to start out with plus the books our friends and family picked were awesome. We didn't get any duplicates.

For gifts everything is my favorite! If that's possible lol. We recieved so many hand made gifts. The softest quilt my step sister made, clothes, bathrobes, bibs and embroidered towels that one my best friends mom made, (I have 3 best friends) BFF#2 who help painted my nursery made us 2 stuffed animals, a lovey and two blankets. One of which made me bawl my eyes out when I unwrapped it. She had painted this pattern I loved off this set of sheets I had seen but replaced the bears with our dogs. She captured them perfectly. It means so much to me. That is by far my favorite gift. Plus she did all of the decorating including cupcake toppers that were Buster and lucy (our dogs). My Hs dad made this adorable moose head towel/ coat rack too.

We also got a lot of our big items, the mattress, car seat, and my most coveted Hatch baby rest sound machine. I feel so overwhelmed with the love that was shown to us.

Oh and the biggest surprise of all!! BFF #3 lives in Colorado and told me she couldn't make it, which I 100% understood. A couple hours before the party I heard the door bell ring and there she was!!! She had flown in to surprise. Cue more tears. It was so wonderful!

[sunshiney]

Foxy Beautiful!!! Your family and friends are so talented!

[TashaLa]

Foxy what a great shower! Glad you got a great start for your little one!

[Foxy]

Oct 22, 2018 12:51:48 GMT -6 sunshiney said:

Foxy Beautiful!!! Your family and friends are so talented!

I know!! They seriously blow me away! I'm so lucky and thankful!

[hrh]

Awww, so lovely, Foxy! Such thoughtful friends and family, you have one loved little baby boy. <3 I love that blanket, she did a gorgeous job!

[strawberrykiki]

Foxy aww everything looks so special and amazing!! I love your dogs! I have two miniatures! ❤️

[cch]

Foxy the dog painting is so sweet! What a thoughtful gift. Everything looked perfect!

[Foxy]

Thank you guys!! It really was a wonderful day. I can't wait to hear and see how everyone else's sprinkles and showers go!

[sunshiney]

Celebrated our baby shower yesterday!

The theme was rainbow baby. Pictures (hope the spoiler works?) show the collage we left out for guests to add little hearts in honor of losses or to acknowledge the infertility or losses of others. I spent a long time deciding exactly if/how to address the topic, and I'm glad with what we ended up doing - my hope was to do a little something to normalize and show support for something that is often kept so quiet and even shameful, but without detracting from celebrating our rainbow baby! My favorite decorations were probably the rainbow-color-changing LED tea light candles down the tables. Everything was yummy, games were cute (my sister made a really awesome custom Bingo game with facts about DH and me as babies, and pregnancy facts and superstitions around the world.

We got about 50 gifts (mostly from Target - I think not many of the guests were savvy Amazon users, since a lot of them were older church ladies!). DH had a blast assembling anything that could be assembled last night. Our dog was so curious about the toys and wary of everything else! We only got 2 doubles and I have maybe 6 items altogether to try to return/exchange, which I'm super relieved about! My grandmother made a beautiful baby quilt with Precious Moments fabric. I wore a blue gingham dress with a pink sweater to keep everyone guessing!

It feels so surreal to have so much ready for baby. Watching DH I'm so in love with him seeing him as a dad. My emotions at the shower were also so intense, I can't believe I finally get to share our happiness over our healthy little baby on the way with all my family and friends now, after starting TTC over ten years ago.

I'm so, so glad that we scheduled it this early. I was pretty faint with exhaustion by the end. Never expected to be so exhausted by the socializing. Can't imagine doing this much further along!

[thelittleredm]

sunshiney, Your shower looked beautiful! I'm so glad you had such a wonderful day.

[cch]

sunshiney your shower looked amazing! Ten years is such a long time to wait and I’m so happy for you and your rainbow baby! ❤️🌈

[TashaLa]

sunshiney what a lovely shower! 🌈

[dashook]

sunshiney I love everything about your post and I’m so glad you had such a beautiful day. You deserve it. I for one am incredibly excited to “meet” your rainbow so I can only imagine how the people you love—not to mention you and YH!—must feel.

[thelittleredm]

From my surprise sprinkle today Seriously, my friend flew in from out of state and planned the whole thing out!

[sunshiney]

So pretty and special!
Also those llama cupcakes are making me drool...!

[dashook]

thelittleredm that is so wonderful!

[thelittleredm]

sunshiney, They were so good and so cute. It almost made it hard to eat them lol

[CharlieB]

thelittleredm How very thoughtful! And those might be the most adorable cupcakes I’ve ever seen!

[strawberrykiki]

thelittleredm that looks so nice!! And I too want one of your cupcakes!! Yum!!

[Foxy]

What a sweet and thoughtful surprise! Your friend did a great job! Those cupcakes are adorable!