The main excuse for our getaway to Seattle was to throw this shower for Whitney and Baby Tagg with my mom. We had so much fun! Thanks to our friends who helped and congrats Whitney on your beautiful baby! We love you both!
the theme:
Baby bird/eggs in a nest
We originally talked about making these with those little colored chocolate cadbury eggs that are so conveniently in stores for Easter. However, my mom found these delicious belgian chocolate eggs with the bird charms at a chocolaterie in Telluride. Good find mom! They were perfect.
finished favor
the yummy desserts! cupcakes, cookies, chocolate cake, and "egg" treats- cadbury colored eggs (we picked out the blue, white and yellow ones) and almonds dipped in chocolate and rolled in cocoa. mmmmm.
eggs in a nest mini cupcakes, baked by a friend, decorated by Mackenzie (my little sis). They are vanilla with cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut shavings for the "nest" and little chocolate crunchy candies for the "eggs."
Karen Chambers made this insanely delicious chocolate cake with chocolate ganache (sp?) frosting and nuts. We added a nest made out of spun sugar and the eggs were extra chocolates from the favors. I will be sure to share the cake recipe as soon as I get it~ it was seriously decadent.
the food- salads, cheeses, stuffed mushrooms (amazing by Nan!), and shrimp skewers
My mom is amazing at Brie. I looooove it! This is an easy one, it's scraped, covered in honey, nuts, sliced pears, baked, and then covered with raspberries. I'm telling you, mom can do no wrong in the kitchen!
beverages- sparkling blueberry juice (Britt introduced this stuff to me in CA and I am in love with it!) and Jones Soda (berry lemonaide).
So here's the part where I lost my mind. I took like two random pics of guests, put the camera down, got the shower going, and didn't take another picture until it was all over! No pics of Whitney, Tagg, the party planners, nada. So presents, nothing. Duh! I did however take a pic of this so far beyond amazing quilt Mari (W's mom) made for Tagg. She also made the most gorgeous couch sized one for my mom week before! I was totally coveting my moms- it was the most amazing colors, fabrics everything. I literally slept with it every night.
Then, after the shower was over, Mari pulled out
THIS!!!!!!!!
The most fabulous beautiful quilt I have ever seen! Her quilts are art. She pics out fabric that is so amazing, but surprizing. Combinations I would never think of, but that are GORGEOUS! On the back, she made a little Tag with a picture of my mom and Max as a little chub, and below it she wrote, "For Max: a traveling quilt to visit his Nana." I was so excited I could have cried. My mom
did cry.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Mari!!!!! We love it and we take it everywhere. Max sleeps with it every night too!
Since I am crazy and didn't take any good pics at the shower, here is a little sneak peak at some of the pics from my session with Whitney and Tagg. Have you ever seen more a more beautiful pair?
Tonight Danny, Max and I went to Ogden to visit our dear friends Darren and Jody and their brand new baby Carson (or Karson). This little man is just the sweetest thing. He's so tiny (6.14, 20 inches) and I think he looks just like his big sister Hadley! Carson was three weeks early and had a little NICU sleep over last night so he could hang out under the heat lamps and stay nice and toasty. Mom and baby are doing great though and will both be released tomorrow! Yay! It was cool going to the NICU, it brought back lots of memories! We even scrubbed in with the exact same little sponges that they had at Saddleback. It made me want to shrink up my own big baby and rewind to that new baby time of my life with new baby smells and new baby clothes and new baby fingernails. I even missed our three long weeks of trips to the NICU. Sigh.
