Sunday was the big baby shower day for my youngest daughter. My oldest daughter and I spent all of last week getting ready for it and by Saturday night I was dragging big time. Our color theme was pink, grey and teal and the main theme was elephants. The elephant theme was a lot of fun except I decided to make candy elephants which was a nightmare for six of the days! When I was much younger I made molded candy A LOT so it should have been easy right? Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. I don't know if it was me or the mold but whatever it had me over the top stressed and determined to have one whole successful batch. Who let's candy-making stress them out? My Mom said I was crazy and go buy some candy. My husband wanted to know when I was going to throw in the towel. Well, you can't just walk into a store and buy little elephant candies so the challenge was on. I had to pick through each batch and take the most reasonably good looking ones. Ten batches later I had enough for the shower. Now I am a proclaimed chocaholic but by the end of the shower I didn't want to look at or smell chocolate. So maybe some bigger good came out of the fiasco. Just kidding, I've already had a bite of chocolate this morning.
DECORATIONS
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| Gift Table |
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| Puff Balls on Guest Tables & Hanging |
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| Vases of Daisies wrapped in sparkling net graced the food tables |
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| Gourmet Brownies with M&M's, White Chocolate Chips & Sprinkles |
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| Tea sandwiches made with ham salad, smokey chicken salad and turkey & swiss |
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| Daughter insisted on bananas to cover in chocolate - thought she was nuts but the mini bananas were a huge hit |
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| Cute Candy Molds |
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| Took 2 Ibuprofin with every batch |
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| Sparkling White Grape Punch |
Games
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| Guess Mom-to-be's Tummy Circumference |
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| Make a baby out of play dough and Mom-to-be chooses the "best" (the adults loved this activity and took it very seriously!) |
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| Mom-to-be & Big Sister-to-be |
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| Mom-to-be & Host, Sister |
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| At the end of the big day everyone was ready for a nap!! |
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