Our baby shower is just around the corner!

I have been busy these past few weeks helping my sister Dana plan my baby shower. She is hosting it, but since she doesn’t get off work until late and I stay at home, I offered to help her with some things. She reserved the clubhouse where she lives as the venue, which is very nice because it has a full kitchen! We also picked out and ordered the cake. She also bought all the supplies that I needed to make the invitations, programs and party favors. I started with the invitations. I designed it how I wanted it, printed them out and got them mailed out a month ahead of the shower date! I also designed and printed the programs, which look adorable. I am now working on the party favors and prizes for the games. Phillip and I went to Babies R Us and finished our registry. He was like a kid in a candy store with the registry gun! He was scanning everything! We both had a lot of fun!

Phillip is so excited about our baby boy, so we discussed having the baby shower co-ed so he could take part and experience it also. We both decided that it would be so much fun, and we had a lot of guys that would come, so we went with the co-ed idea.

Phillip’s boss, Dave, was generous enough to offer to provide the food for the shower, so we put together a menu. I’d have to say it’s very delectable! Since we are having a luncheon shower, we decided to serve Rib eye steaks, grilled chicken breasts, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy and dinner rolls for the entrée, chips, dip and salsa, crackers and cheese, a variety of soda, water, beer and sangria (homemade, and it’s delicious! Too bad I can’t have any).

I am so excited, I can hardly wait! We have been holding off until after the shower to go shopping for ‘Lil Bean. We want to wait and see what we get and don’t get so we can buy accordingly. We still have a lot of work to do with the nursery. We finally got the crib and changing table picked up; it’s in the garage and just needs to be assembled. But before we can do that, we need to paint the nursery first. My sister Dana is buying the bedding, so we will get all that at the shower. We are still waiting for the armoire to come in. There’s so much that I need to get done; I need to have a few blankets embroidered with our baby’s name, I need to re-cover my rocking chair as it does not match the nursery color and décor, I need to decorate the nursery, get everything washed…. Ahhhh, there is just so much that we still need to do. I am starting to feel a little overwhelmed. Hopefully, in the next few weeks we can get most of this done. I have a list started that way we don’t forget anything. If you can think of anything else we missed that we need to do, please feel free to comment. Any ideas and suggestions are appreciated! Thanks, and God bless!