Carter's Shower

On Saturday my family threw an amazing baby shower at my mom's club! The guest list included lots of friends, both old and new, and extended family. I was lucky that so many people were able to come in from out of town to attend the event and celebrate with us. Candace and I headed over to St. Ives in the afternoon and met up with my sisters, mom, and aunts who were all there decorating for the party. The room looked fabulous and every detail was carefully planned out.

One of the many diaper cakes and some of the presents set up!

Baby Hami napkins!

Each table had a diaper cake centerpiece!

The beautiful aunties- Kristin and Alex
Thanks girls for an amazing party!

So glad so many of my friends could come!
Courtney, Daniele, Becky, me, Halie, Jane, and Candace

Catching up and introducing everyone to each other!

Me with some of the Harvey Girls- Donna and Megan
and Aunt Alex having some fun!

After discussing it with my family, we realized that one of the least favorite traditions to any shower is the part where people open gifts, so the invitation explained to guests to bring an unwrapped gift so we could have more time to party!! Once guests arrived we enjoyed a little time socializing and catching up before moving into the Tapas buffet. The food was amazing and I ate everything (even going back for seconds thirds on the vegetable sushi!). There was a signature "Baby Boy" Mojito and open bar for everyone to enjoy.

I couldn't have any cocktails, but they looked yummy!

Welcoming everyone to the shower and flubbing up my toast...

Getting in some good cuddle practice with baby Leighton!

My sweet friend Courtney (who I have known for 14 years!!)
made the trip from Nashville! The last time I saw her was at her shower in
June when she was as far along in her pregnancy as I was this time!

Kristin and Alex came up with a fun name that tune game that we played while everyone had dessert. Every song had "baby" in the title and it was hilarious to see my mom's friends singing along and guessing the title and artist. The club provided some delicious treats, but nothing was better than Alex's homemade cream cheese stuffed cupcakes!! Guests were raving about them all afternoon and even took home the extras as party favors! Speaking of which, the favor table included items that would be useful to all the guests invited- Baby Hami golf and tennis balls! My clever mom decided it would be better for the favor to be something everyone could use, and pretty much everyone invited to the shower plays one of those sports!

Long time family friend Lynn O'Meally and Aunt Cindy playing name that tune!

Our fabulous party favors!

My gift basket from the Harvey's

This party would not have been possible without all the planning and hard work of my sweet momma! It wasn't until afterward, when we were all sitting around watching football, that we realized we never took a photo together at the party.

Mom---thank you so much for planning this event and seeing it through. You have been so generous with your time and energy during this pregnancy (which I know was not been easy) and I am SO lucky to have a mother like you. I can only hope that I can be as good to Carter as you have been to me over the years. I know you are going to make an amazing grandmother and I can't wait to see you form that special bond with each other. Thank you again for everything. I love you very much!