Crystal's babyshower

My good friend Crystal is having a baby and I decided that even though this is her 2nd baby boy that she still needed a baby shower. I feel every baby requires a baby shower anyway, but I was SO excited to host this one.

Crystal's husband was over in Iraq with Josh last year and Crystal and I quickly became friends. She's just one of those type of people that likes to give, give, give and never asks for anything in return. So I wanted her baby shower to be relaxing, and have all the things she loved.

I had candles everywhere, flowers everywhere and guacomole, I could have been done right there, she was enamored! :)

But I had more fun with it, I put a clothes line made from ribbon across the wall and hung cute oneies in the color scheme of blues and browns,






printed baby Jacob's name and hung that on the other wall.






Sophie was gracious enough to make Crystal's cake and did an OUTSTANDING job, she never worked with fondunt before and found a recipe for marshmallow fondant that was easy and delicious and she did really cute two tone circles on top of the cake.






I served chicken salad sandwiches, pasta salad, fruit salad (that I made into flowers) and the guacomole.







We had really fun games, we played how many cotton balls in the baby bottle (which was an enourmous baby bottle piggy bank), and a fun Old Wise tell game, also we played baby memory, which is one of my favorites. The basics are like a memory game, except you have words like Doctor's bill and Doctor's bill and when you get the match you get a candy that matches the name, for example Doctor's bill is 100 Grand, Baby Girl is Baby Ruth, baby boy is O Henry, Epidural is Lifesaver and so on... We also played who can deliver the baby fastest, which is tiny plastic baby's found at JoAnn's put into ice cubes and then the guest have to try to melt there's the fastest. It got interesting seeing how people did that, for example Sherry had her baby under her armpit and Sophie was trying to melt the baby out of the water only to scold the poor baby's butt...

The babyshower was great fun, but now I'm ready for baby Jacob to make his appearance!!!