{Sweet Baby McGill}

Saturday January 15th, my sister-in-law Anna, Jenn's best friend Arielle, and I hosted a baby shower for my sister-in-law Jenn who is having a baby in March. Since we don't know the sex of the baby, I thought it would be so much fun to have a lime green and black shower. As you can see, the mother to be was glowing. I wanted to make every detail perfect. We hosted the shower at our church New Covenant, which is now renamed to Grace Community. The church was the perfect place to host the shower. We were allowed to use tables, chairs, china, and their kitchen for free! It was so nice to have everything that we needed all in one place. We had tea and punch for the ladies and decorated each table with lime green napkins, favor bags for the guests, and then we had the guests put their gifts on the center of each table. Everyones gifts were so beautifully wrapped so we thought they we make pretty centerpieces. My sister-in-law Anna and I had such a great time making the cupcakes and putting the favor bags together late into the night. Its so fun to be able to hang out with her and chat in our jammies, giggle, and watch trash tv. Here is a photo of the baby shower cake. I tried to order one, but the snow up north stopped that from happening last minute. I was so bummed, but I made a cake and cupcakes so everything turned out great. I really need to take cake decorating classes. I make so many different cakes and cupcakes, it would be nice to learn a few tricks and different design ideas. I'd also like to save some money and make Lily's birthday cakes every year. Our friend Lexi had a challenge in front of her....I asked her to get lime green flowers for us.....she pulled it off, they were so pretty. I also asked for her to make corsages for the mother of the mom to be and the mom to be. The pins were made from a design off of the Jones Design Company [www.jonesdesigncompany.com} tutorial page. They were so adorable and so easy to make! I want to make some hair bows for Lily with them soon. Anna was awesome at putting the food together. Everything was so good and it looked so pretty. She really put in a lot of work making every detail nice. I'm not a fan of baby shower games so Arielle came up with an amazing idea. All of the guests at the baby shower decorated onesies with fabric markers. There were so many cute designs.

I even dressed Lily to match the shower, lime green with these adorable little overalls. Our baby is such a happy girl and so excited to meet her little cousin!