Jungle Animal Baby Shower

A couple weeks ago, I helped host a baby shower for one of my bestest friends. Baby B should be making his debut sometime at the end of March.

I've decided that baby showers are much more fun than bridal showers. Sorry soon-to-be-brides out there, but baby gear is just much more exciting to watch your guest open!

She's having a boy and her nursery theme is jungle animals, so we took that and ran with it.

I was on maternity leave, so I had some extra time on my hands to design the invites and include a few DIY touches.

 Front of Invite

Not gonna lie, I found this invite somewhere online and then re-created in Illustrator/InDesign with minor changes.

Don't you just love the elephants?

 Back of Invite

Is that not the cutest idea ever? This is a great way to help start a baby's book collection. My shower included this very same idea, and I loved receiving books for Carson!

Small touches of blue, green and brown were scattered through Megan's large open living room and kitchen area. "Advice for the new Mom" cards greeted guests at a table by the front door. A DIY "Baby B" banner hung on the fireplace mantle and Megan's chalkboard in her kitchen made for a nice touch.

Lucky for us, Megan's daughter, Grace, has an animal-themed nursery, so we snuck a few decorations from her room:)

Cute onesies (facing both ways) were hung in the door frame to mimic a clothes line. Baby B is going to be one stylish kid!

The spread was simple.

• Crab Cake Muffins found on Pinterest - Highly recommend.
• Hot Spinach and Artichoke Dip from Skinny Taste - To. Die. For. And a healthier version.
• Fruit skewers - Always go over well
• Mexican Corn Dip - Always a hit at our gatherings. Heather's staple dish.
• Mini Pigs in a blanket - Can't get much easier!
• Desserts - cupcakes and cookies
• Baby Blue Punch (with rubber duckies!) - So fun! Megan did a great job with this.
• Blackberry Tea - Delish.

Heather arranged a nice jungle-themed vase that made the perfect centerpiece for the food table. So fitting.

All dishes were adorned with cute folded placards including elephants, a monkey or a giraffe. We fancied up the fruit skewers by hot gluing animal tags to each side of the stick. 

 

 

The dessert table was my fav. I just love sweets. And these sweets were nothing short of ordinary.

 

Cupcakes from Gigi's. Oh my gosh. So good. And SO cute.

White chocolate dipped Oreos and chocolate chip cookies (dyed blue of course!). I think I had two of each.

To switch it up from other recent baby showers, we played the baby food game. It was something different and fun to guess the kinds of food. The worst was the chicken noodle dinner. I may or may not secretly like the pears. 

Julie got some great gifts. One of the books she received is called "Goodnight iPad", spin off of "Goodnight Moon." Hilarious! What is going to be the newest technological advance when our kids are our age?

 

Carson soaked up lots of cuddles from everyone. And had some playtime with his girlfriend, Maggie. :)

Hootie Hoo! Love me some owls.

I just love this pic of Julie and her mother-in-law. And Carson:). So Candid.

Guests took home favor bags filled with animal cookies. I borrowed a Noah's ark cookie cutter set from a coworker to make the cookies (similar to this set found on Amazon), then filled the bags with a little green raffia paper confetti (to look like grass) and attached thank you animal tags.

Mags and Carson. Destined to be together.

Adriane and I shared the same Pledge Mom in Chi Omega. Does that make this relationship incest?

 

Mags flirting!

The hosts and guest of honor

Mommy-to-be and her moms...and sleepy Carson:)

Congrats to Julie and Josh and Baby B! 

We are anxiously awaiting your arrival!!