Saturday's Super Shower Part 1

This past Saturday was my first baby shower and it was SUPER. It was hosted by my great friends Liz and Mel.

We had lots of food and lots of cake. There was a lovely "theme" cake handmade by Liz. It was my "Ace of Cakes Cake" made with fondant and all with the "Alphabet Soup" theme. It was also funfetti cake (which happens to be my favorite). It was super cute and super colorful (right up my alley.) Then there were monkey chocolate cupcakes.

And to top it off there was a wonderful diaper cake (this one you don't eat. HA!)

Quite a few people showed up to help celebrate. Most were ladies that I used to work with or still work with and a few were family. Two family members there were my mom and my Aunt Rachel. (More family will be at the shower in 2 weeks in Decatur.)

Given I LOVE LOVE LOVE games, Mel had 4 baby shower games lined up. The first was a crossword puzzle with very unique clues. My Aunt Rachel flew through the crossword and I had to cheat to get a few. My favorite clue was "milk extractor" for breastpump. There were a few other funny ones too. The second game was a big hit too. A few weeks ago, I had to pick from a list of "traits" (you know...eyes, nose, skin tone, temper, personality, etc) as to whether I wanted the baby to have Clay's trait or mine. Of course it wasn't so easy for me to just pick one or the other. Most of the responses had some type of explanation or "bargaining" involved, so when I had to remember what I had picked weeks ago, the ladies got a big kick out of my explanations.
The remaining two games were the string game (where you cut a piece of string for how big you think the mom's belly is)... and I won ;o) and then a cute note card game with funny questions.
After the games, we did presents. It's weird being the only one in the room opening up gifts with everyone watching you. Hadn't done it since the bridal shower over 6 years ago.
Here is a picture of the gifts and wonderful things Little Bean was given before opening.....

and after opening and home... Clay even said "someone needed to pick up his/her room"

I want to do a "Part 2" for the shower with more pictures of the wonderful things in detail, so stay tuned......