Non-Adventures #34 & 35 and Rambling #23 & 24 Baby Showers and Diaper Cakes!

So towards the end of May and the beginning of June I had two baby showers come up. So we (my mom and I) decided we of course would make diaper cakes. Well I make them she helps with the funding and overall design input. Our first shower was for my cousin Matt's wife Jessica. In a previous post I showed pics of their wedding. Well now they are expecting a baby and they decided to wait to find out if they were having a boy or a girl, so gender neutral colors were decided upon. Here is the cake we came up with and gave them. We put a painted "B" for Brown.



Here is the cake they had for her
This is Jessica and her mom, I tried to lighten it up as much as I could.
Jessica and her mother-in-law Julie (my aunt)
Jessica opening her presents
My cousin Jenna and I
She received a lot of basics and we all had a good time playing some baby games. Jessica was due in August.

The other shower took place at the beginning of June and was for my good friend Chrissie whom I have known since Elementary School. She and Jason were married and talked about on the blog too. They decided they wanted to know and learned they were having a BOY! To be named Austin Hoyt Russell. Here is the cake we made for Austin. Her nursery has a Winnie-the-Pooh theme and I thought it was perfect that we found these pacifiers with Pooh and Tigger on them.



The party was at her sister-in-law Vickie's house. Here is Chrissie and her mother.
Me and Stacie
Stacie, Chrissie, and I
Chrissie and her hostesses, Margot (her sister) and Vickie (her sister-in-law)
Chrissie got some great gifts for Austin and we all were able to talk about how we knew her and give her some advice. Now all she had to do was wait for September to come!

Non-Adventure #9 March Madness! No Not Basketball!

So March was a crazy and long month. I promised my friend Chrissie that I would help her plan her wedding. She decided that she wanted to get married on March 14 but she decided that in January. So as this was a second marriage for them both they really just wanted a small wedding of family and friends. They each chose one attendant, she chose me to be her maid of honor. So I helped her the best I could with the planning. The night before the wedding we had a girls slumber/lingere party at my house. We had a good time, we ate yummy snack food, and watched wedding movies. Here is what the invite looked like:
After a hectic day of running to makeup and hair appointments and getting last minute things like earrings and dealing with changes of venues (the wedding was supposed to be outdoors but with the rain and cold weather we changed it to inside, which now meant stairs and heels) the time came, the music played and I started the walk down the stairs with the best man. I slightly caught my heel on the first step and would have gone down had Brandon the best man not held me steady. Then Chrissie came down they said their vows and their "I do's" and were pronounced husband and wife. Then came party time. Here are some of the pics from us hanging out after the wedding. All the wedding ones and ones with Chrissie are on my friend Stacie's camera. But here is Robin and I.
Stacie and I
Baylee posing for the camera as usual
Baylee and I
My sister Donna and I
The Kellers (Rob and Robin)
Robin lookin' fierce!
It was a long day and we had a long drive home (the wedding was in Cleburne), so after the cakes had been cut and the bride and groom departed we made our way home. The next weekend was Trend Show weekend at Northpark! I love this weekend. I love getting to see the fashions and new trends in make-up and I love having my make-up done too. We had a pretty good size group going this year. It included my sister Donna, Stacie, Baylee, Robin, my BSF friend Loryn and myself. It was a little different this year instead of the tent they had the show on the third floor and and then we got our makeup done here we all are after the show and makeup appointments.
Donna and Baylee after hitting up the MAC counter:
Baylee and I
My friend Meredith Bunch who works for Bobbi Brown. She did our makeup for Donna's wedding and also went to ACU with me. We are both Nelson girls!
My new friend and fellow Brown Loryn and I
Stacie after the Bobbi counter
My fav pic of Baylee and I
Stacie and I posing outside of Nordstroms
Donna posing for some pictures to send to her husband in Guam
After we were all beautified we went to get lunch at this Italian place called Campisi's. When you walk in it is totally dark and looks like the kind of place you would see in the mob movies like Good Fellas. We even got the corner booth! Here is Stacie posing all artsy like:
Here's the gang (minus Loryn she had to go meet her fiancee to take care of some wedding details). Stacie, Robin, Baylee, Donna, and I:
After lunch we headed back to Denton it had been kind of a long day (we started at like 6 something in the morning). We all had a good time and I think we all looked totally glam!

Non-Adventure #6 Twice the blessings, and twice the curlz!

Saturday July 19th was the day we scheduled to have Amy's baby shower. We figured since she was was expecting twins an early shower was guaranteed to have Amy appear at the shower. I was thrilled when Leah (her sister) asked me to help host the shower. I decided I would do the food with help from Rachel and Susan. I also did our hostess gifts which were girl diaper cakes #1 & 2. So as the Saturday loomed closer I started to feel a little stressed with so much to do, but in a good way (I like to stay busy!). We had a great array of food that covered the sweet and salty as well as the delicious. Rachel did our liquids (lemonade and sherbert punch) as well as sausage cheese balls. Susan made tea sandwiches, cherry bread, muffins and another type of bread I cannot remember (blueberry, maybe). I made my sausage/cream cheese pinwheels, mini french puff pastries, and a fruit creation (thanks dad!). We had bibs outside for everyone to decorate for the girls. Here are the pictures of the cakes, I searched all over for this ribbon, and chose it especially for the cakes. It was a beautiful black ribbon with white flowers on it.

Cake #1

Cake #2 Both cakes together Here are the shower pictures, unfortunately I only had my camera with me during the beginning of the shower and so none of mine are during the shower.
The sign-in/blessings table
The sign-in sheet
The blessings jar
The food table picture #1
The food table picture #2
The presents table Me with two(four) of my favorite girls!

The shower was a success! Amy spent over an hour opening up all the presents! We cleaned up and were out of there by 2ish (the shower started at 11am). I think Amy has some pictures up of the presents and guests on her blog. Just look her up on my favorite blogs to read. I'll post again soon and talk about my trip to Cali!!!