Baby Shower #2
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Today, we had our second baby shower. Michael's mom, sisters, and aunt threw it for me (us). The guests were from Michael's side of the family, and because of the location, my college friends were invited to this one, too.
It was an awesome afternoon with good family, good friends, and good food. Like my other shower, it was relatively small so I felt like I got to spend some time talking with everyone, which was great. We played a few cute games, enjoyed some cake, and I opened all over the (VERY generous) gifts.
Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of photos yet, but there are a few to share. Also, I missed out on getting a photo with all of my hostesses, which I'm really sad about! But everyone was running around doing so much that it escaped us until we were all home afterwards. Oops. :(
We received many wonderful gifts, including our high chair, extra car seat base, the Bumbo and accessory tray, burp cloths, onesies, the changing table supplies, and more. We also received several gift cards and cash gifts--which will all be put to very good use, I assure you!
I'm overwhelmed by the generosity of others and am so grateful to my "other" wonderful family... it's so nice to have married into such a nice group of people. I can't wait to add another little person to the family! :)
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2 comments:
You're so lucky you've received so many good gifts. I didn't get hardly anything I need at mine so now it's stressing me out about what all we need to buy within 7 weeks!
I'm sorry to hear that, Crystal. :( I'm sure that's frustrating. I think we really lucked out because we are "Team Green"--people really can't go nuts with clothes and the "cutesy" stuff because there's really not a whole lot of gender-neutral stuff out there! I had heard from friends that a perk to not knowing the baby's sex was that we were more likely to get the practical stuff as gifts... and that definitely ended up being true for us.
The nice thing is that, at least in the beginning, babies really don't NEED a lot of stuff. Hopefully you'll be able to prioritize and spread out your purchases over time, and who knows--maybe you'll continue to get gifts after your baby is born! :)
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