On Saturday I co-hosted a mustache themed baby shower for my
friend Krista. Krista and I have been
friends since college, and we even started Driving Jacks together. Krista and her husband Tyler are having a boy
who will be named Levi in May.
A few months ago I talked to Krista and asked who was
hosting her a shower, she said her friend Katie was hosting it, but I could
help if I wanted. Katie emailed me a
while later and asked if I wanted to help, of course I did! Katie did a lot of the work and decorations,
and I was in charge of the chocolate fountain and game. I wouldn’t really call myself a co-host, I
didn’t do as much as Katie did!
Future Grandma's! Or Gigi's? I don't remember what they said they would be called.
Katie had tons of cute decorations around the house with a
mustache theme. She had a banner sewn
with “Welcome Levi” on it, and also onsies with a ties for the “little man’’
theme.
When you walk into the front door there was a wishing tree
that everyone could write wishes on for Levi.
When I was writing mine all I could think of was the song by Rascall
Flatts that says “My wish for you is that your life..” so my note may or may
not have said something to that effect. LOL.
True story.
For food we had a chocolate fountain with marshmallows,
pretzels, Oreo's, and strawberries. I
also made the tortilla roll up things with cream cheese, chives, and ham that
went super fast! I <3 those things! There
was veggies and dip, and also pita chips with a cheese ball.
Katie has a friend who is starting a cupcake business out of
her house and she made chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter icing (OMG, so
good!!) and vanilla cupcakes with chocolate chip cookie dough in the middle. Katie also made the shower punch with grape
juice, ice cream, and soda that is famous at showers. I have only ever had it with sherbet, but the
ice cream works just as well. Delicious!
Originally, for the game we were going to have a Price is
Right baby game where you name the price of certain baby items, but I dislike
the normal baby shower games so I went on a google search of other games. Since it was a mustache theme I found a game
idea called “Name that Mustache” where you name the celebrity who’s mustache is
shown. I found 20 celebrities who had mustaches
and cropped their mustache out of the picture and glued it to a half piece of
yellow paper (the colors of the shower were grey and yellow). The guests had about 10 minutes to look at
all 20 mustaches and figure out who’s mustache it would be. I didn’t give them a list of the celebrities,
but I did go around telling them hints if they asked. For Will Smith I said that he likes to save
the world or with Matthew McCounney (sp?) I gave the hint that he likes to play
bongo’s naked. LOL. The person who had
the most names listed would win a prize (Bath and Body Works lotion in blue
since she was having a boy).
Of course there were straws with mustaches on theme.
And we all took group pics with mustaches.
As a favor, everyone went home with cute cookies made in the
shape of a tie.
The baby momma and her shower hostesses.
It was a fantastic shower and I am so glad I got to be
involved and celebrating this fabulous future baby boy! I can’t wait to meet him in May!
For more pictures go to www.flamingosandfun.smugmug.com
It was a beautiful shower; you and Katie did a fabulous job and I felt SUPER SPECIAL and spoiled! :) Thank you so much for all the work you ladies put into it. I loved the theme, the decor and especially the food!! I was asking about those tortilla pinwheels after the party was over but they were all gone (boo.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for being an awesome friend and future auntie to lil Levi!!