Shower for Ava

Heather’s bridal shower was one weekend, her Bachelorette Party the next, and then it was time to Shower Janelle with love and gift for her new little bundle of joy, Ava!

We had Janelle’s shower on a Monday during the time of her normal weekly play date at 11am.  I loved hosting a shower where breakfast food is served.  It was so easy to prepare the food for a brunch and everything was delicious and kid friendly!

Our beverage table was super cute and included my favorite thing…the striped straws!  We had OJ, Frappuccino, Water, Milk, and Chocolate Milk.

I love all the natural light at Jamie’s house but my camera was not such a big fan.  I tried to get a good picture of the buffet table, but the sunshine was super bright!

Tissue balls were everywhere!  I love that these decorations make such a big statement and are so simple to make!

Most of our recipes that we used for this shower were pinterest finds.  We had mini pancakes, quiche, bacon wrapped smokies, bacon and cheese grits casserole, pigs in the blanket, and a donut hole tree.

We wrote a saying from “Goodnight Moon” onto the homemade chalk board.  I tried to write as pretty as I could, but the chalk was really dull/flat so it looks like a five year old wrote it.

I am sad that this is the only picture that I have of the adorable onesies that I made.  I cut out the decals and ironed them to iron on adhesive.  Then I ironed them onto the onesies.  Not sure how they will hold up in the wash, but they were great to hang over the fireplace!

My favorite dish that I made were the blueberry crumble bars.  So good and soooo easy.  We also had a pound cake with strawberries.

The yogurt parfaits were yummy.

After playing a couple of games it was time to open presents.  Gabby was there to help her mama with her new little sister’s gifts.

Janelle is the wife of one of Doug’s fellow residents.  They are 3rd year residents and Janelle was hoping to deliver little Ava here at Madigan before Jake began his 4 month rotation over in Spokane.  Luckily little Ava thought that was a great idea and was born on September 24th.

Bachelorette Goodie Bags

We thought that is would be fun to hand out little goodie/favor bags at Heather’s Bachelorette Bash.  We tried to be creative and think of everything that we might need the night of or the next morning.

Each bag had

*A Jello Shot (“Time to Toast” Heather’s Bachelorette Bash August 18, 2012)

*Candy Penis

*Penis Straw(For your sucking pleasure)

*Candy Necklace(First girl to get five different guys to take a bite wins)

*Aleve(take two and call me in the morning)

*A Mint shaped like a penis(Dick Tac)

* A Hair Tie(When a friend isn’t there to hold your hair back)

*Baby food Jar for game(First Girl to get it up wins)

*Condom for the game(Safety First)

*Glow in the dark necklaces

*Ring Pops(Blow Pops)

And of course…

*Toothpaste, Toothbrush, Mouthwash, and Floss

The bags were a hit and I’m pretty sure the hair ties and the Aleve all came in handy!!!!

Heather’s Bachelorette Party

As I sit here at the airport headed home for the weekend I figured I better do some blogging and hopefully get caught up!

Heather’s Bachelorette Bash was about 2 months ago.  I am terrible about blogging lately.  I had so many things going in the last few months.  I am going to try and get caught up on this 4 hour plane ride home.

A lot of planning went into Heather’s Party and I like to think that I came up with most of the ideas…but I was really just following orders from the Bridezilla herself! j/k  Heather informed us that she wanted to have a night out in Portland, have the decorations consist of pink and zebra prints, go to a drag show, and end the night dancing.  We tried to meet all of her demands…I mean request.

We left Olympia at around 11am and headed to Portland.  We got to our hotel around 2pm.  We had two hotel rooms and stuck Heather in one while we decorated the other.

Our night begin with a couple of Jello shots for everyone.

And goodie bags and treats!

A Bachelorette party is not complete without a penis cake.

We had plenty of drinks to wet our whistles.

Caution tape was placed on the door to warn our neighbors.

A party is not complete without a photo station.

Heather loved the room décor and was super excited to get the night started!

Photo station is in full force…

After everyone arrived and got ready we met back up for games and gifts. 

Heather’s other request for the night was for everyone to wear black dresses.  Heather surprised us all with these awesome neon green members only jackets that we all had to wear out for the night!  I am so excited to add this to my wardrobe. :/

After all the gifts were opened we headed downtown in the hotel shuttle for dinner.

We ate at a fun little bar and grill called Hamburger Mary’s.

After dinner we were off to Darcelle’s, the oldest drag show in the states.

Darcelle herself/himself is the oldest drag queen in the states as well and we saw way too much of her this evening!  Her jokes were really old, so no one in the crowd really got them.  At least she made herself laugh!

All of the Brides in the audience were called up on stage and Heather was pumped!  She was asked where she was getting married and she told the crowd Australia!?!?  This was news to all of her bridesmaids!

When the show was over the night was just beginning.  We headed across the street to a night club called Dirty.  We had own booth and had a blast dancing the night away celebrating Heather’s last few days of being single!