B shower pictures part1

My little sisters baby shower was last weekend. Surprisingly I didn't break down & cry. I managed thru it.
Hosting helped, because I was sooo busy doing everything, it made it easy to not pay attention to all the little conversations & not be too engaged.   Here's a picture of the cute preggo. She's only 25 weeks. This is when she had time off from work to trek 1/2 way across the country to visit the family.

We did a "book" theme, so the food was all somehow related to a children's book.

So the handmade cupcakes were from "where the wild things are"

Another sister decorated each one.  

My mom found my P/interest account in the last month & saw a cute idea to set up something on a changing table.. On P/interest they did the drinks. We did desserts.  The changing table will be making its way to my house. The monkeys don't sit still anymore for diaper changes & the sister the shower is for, came from the east coast. She is getting all new furniture.. soo I am okay with hand me downs for the future peanut.

Here's what the living room looked like all set up before the mayhem started.

I think my mom's house is pretty plain.. so we made hot pink, black & white tissue paper flowers. Well I can take credit for the idea & showing my mom & sister how to make the first one & they went to town. Apparently my step-father was bored one night & helped "fluff" the flowers, my mom was folding. It gave the otherwise "boring" room a little color & was very "girly"

Last picture for this post..  The mantle.. I had my mom take down all her knick-knacks & it was decorated  with the tissue flowers & a bunch of kids books.