On Sunday, I got to host a baby shower for this little guy. Isn't he precious?!
His mom, Dixie, is one of my good friends and we've all been waiting and waiting for his arrival. Since she's one of "those" women don't find out the gender before the baby is born, we had to wait until just after the baby was born to do some of the planning.
Mostly just the color scheme, though, because I knew *exactly* what kind of shower I was throwing for her when she announced she was pregnant...it didn't matter what Dixie had!
You see, Dixie is a H-U-G-E Elvis fan. And I'm not talking about the hokey, glitzy, cheesy Elvis fan you see in Las Vegas. She is a tried-and-true-loves-the-music-and-the-man kind of fan. The one who takes her family to Graceland for vacation and has a tearful, touching moment with her middle son (who's also a huge fan) at Elvis's grave.
So I had my super-talented friend, Kristi of I SHOULD BE MOPPING THE FLOOR fame, design a printable that would be the centerpiece of the whole shower.
It was perfect. Seriously, the woman is a genius. If you need anything creative done for anything, she's your gal. You can send her your nebulous, un-formed ideas with made-up words (like vintage-y or sweet, but not girly) and she'll send you exactly what you wanted! I chose red and turquoise for the shower colors because Dixie loves red, like I do, and turquoise because I was choosing and that's one of my favorite color-combos! hee hee
We named all the food (which were all of Elvis's favorites...thank you, Google!) after famous Elvis songs. It was more a homage to Elvis than an all-out-Elvis's-face-on-everything kind of shower. A classy Elvis baby shower, if you will.
These were all the hostesses (minus my friend, Liz, because she was running the TOUGH MUDDER with her husband because she's crazy like that).
Despite deciding that I am too old to be hosting baby showers and that my thought about having the shower on the same weekend at the Fall Festival at the kids' school was not my brightest (it seemed like such a good idea at the time, too), it was a fun shower. I left the lanterns hanging over the table because they were festive and the pinwheels were moved to my mantle...nice reminders of a sweet shower I got to share with a sweet friend.
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