from Bali to birth and beyond...: Showered With Love

A couple weekends ago, a beautiful shower was thrown in Conshy in honor of our little King of the Jungle. Once again, we were reminded of how blessed we are to be surrounded by such thoughtful, caring, and supportive friends and family. As our friend Christy C. inscribed in the book she got for him, he is "already so loved."

Our nursery theme is a subtle jungle safari theme, hence the inspiration for the shower theme.

The hostess with the mostess, my amazing Mom!

Awesome diaper cake created by Kelly A.--so creative!

Me and Auntie Kel!

Look at all those diapers from the broken down diaper cake!
Well maybe that will be a week's worth, haha!

The guests were asked to guess the circumference of my burgeoning belly. The centerpieces were up for grabs for the one at each table who guessed the closest without going over. At about 33 weeks, I measured 40.5 inches. The tape measure my Mom brought was barely long enough! I know I'm a bit big, but someone (Lynn C!) actually guessed 63.5 inches...I'm not even that tall!! Haha!

Such a creative gift from Aunt Krista...cute outfits of all sizes strung from a clothes line.
We kept pulling the outfits out of the laundry basket they were stacked in
and it seemed never-ending! So cool!

Baby M's awesome cousin Julia, Baba, and Aunties Tanya and Krista

Among the trees! The beautiful (and tall!) Vebrosky's!

With my lovely--and colorful--Nova gals...
Aunties Colleen, Lauren, Marisa, Jenny, Christy, and Jude

My Lehigh ladies...Aunties Cara and Karen,
who kindly traveled the furthest to be there!

My Philly chicas...
Aunties Jen, Meagan, Megan, Kelly, and Flagg

In lieu of a card, guests were asked to bring a book for Baby M.
Can you believe we received not one duplicate!!! Amazing!
Thanks everyone again so much; Baby M's library is off to a great start!

Anthony's been eager to put together the great gifts we received for Baby M...he's been busy!