Jess and Drew live in Tampa, and we don't get to see them nearly as often as we would like. When I heard she was preggers I just knew I had to throw her a baby shower. She would do the same for me! Her mom and dad were in town in June, so we started making plans. My mom came down with me, which added to the fun of our girls' weekend. It was so nice that Francine, Jessica's mom, could be there as well.
We rented out the clubhouse in their neighborhood, and started to get to work. Two of Jess's local Tampa friends helped me quite a bit as well. Allie and Rachel were life-savers. Not being close by, some things were difficult to do from far away.
Jess decided to do the baby's room in grey and yellow, and this gave us a great color scheme for the baby shower.
Silver tablecloths made for a great backdrop on all of the fun yellow bursts of color we planned on using. Lemons in a hurricane vase, surrounded by tulle, made a great centerpiece for the food table. A few ball jars that were covered in spray paint added a fun touch to the tables. My mom made some tissue paper flowers out of white, yellow and grey that filled those jars. The diaper cakes were Rachel originals, and really added a great touch to the room. Also, if you notice the lemonade in the top right corner, that is the Toomer's Corner Lemonade recipe. I knew we weren't throwing an orange baby shower, but had to add just a hint of Auburn somewhere!
Thanks to Pinterest on the baby onesies hanging from ribbon. Thanks to Carter's for deciding that their entire late spring line was going to be grey and yellow. Mom found a bunch of onesies that were the perfect color, and we added some tulle pom poms to the ones that didn't have anything on the front.
Allie created the candy bar in all of the perfect colors. Jess isn't the biggest fan of cake, mostly because of the icing, so Allie decided to do something different. She made chocolate covered pretzel sticks, giant marshmallows covered in yellow chocolate, lemon heads, and lollipops. You name it, she found it. She even put out bags so you could take some home. Perfect!
I just wanted to add a picture of some of the tulle pom poms we had hanging around the room. I will add a tutorial for these at a later point, because these are so easy and so cute! I left all of them with Jess in case she wants to use any of them in the baby's room.
Also, I didn't get a great picture, but Rachel made a chocolate covered M&M popcorn. Rachel, if you read this, leave the recipe in the comment box below so I can create a post for that. I am a HUGE popcorn fan, and I have never had anything like this. I couldn't stop eating it, and have been craving it ever since!
We had such a blast throwing this for Jess. I think, after meeting alot of her friends, Jess and Drew are some of the last ones to start having babies in their group of friends in Tampa. They are the first in mine and Jay's group of friends. I hope we were able to create something pretty special for them, I clearly haven't had alot of practice at baby showers!
I can't wait to meet this little bundle of joy. She is already so loved by family and friends, and after this shower, she is very well dressed!!
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