Baby Shower

In February Jana and I threw a Baby Shower for our friend Julianne. It was so much fun getting ready for this! Jana had a great idea to do Fruit Bouquets. Lucky for me she has great ideas and lets me tag along. We made them the night before and I think they turned out really cute. They are a lot cheaper than buying them. All you need is a knife, flower shape cookie cutter, and melon baller. Lots of tooth picks and skewers. We also made a vegetable one. We made it the night before which is a mistake. Make sure if you are to make one you make it the morning of close to when the party starts. It was also easy to assemble.

The Fruit and Veggie Bouquet (This is the morning of. Notice what happens to the veggies if you do it the night before. They all dry up and they aren't so cute. Good thing I had a bag of carrots left. So the veggie bouquet was just for display:) The Fruit was still good and was very tasty!

So I thought I was tricky, but these were the prizes. A Movie Basket. Its hard to buy good clean flicks these days, but I was at Target and noticed this I Love Lucy movie with 20 Episodes for a great deal. I just put some chocolates and popcorn in with it. The next is a good book, Wednesday Letters and a box of candy. When I am in Utah I hit up Seagull Book and get good books for a great price for just this kind of thing. The last is the Garden Basket. It included a big packet of flower seeds, gardening gloves, and a cute frog garden decoration. I found the frog and flower packet at Target in the dollar bins. The gloves and watering can I also found at Target in the Gardening section. So I was thrilled with how they turned out and thought I would share.

The Diaper Cake. Every baby shower needs one. The top is real flowers inside a baby bottle filled with water and the rest are fake. I didn't want to ruin the diapers:)

So this is the veggie bouquet right after I finished. It looks a lot better. If I were to do it again. I would make the cucumbers into small spears instead of stacking them as rings. I was trying to come up with a way to be able to still eat them without them being huge. So just an idea if you decide to make them.

Okay so I have found my new hobby! CUPCAKES!! So I know all of you in Utah have cupcake stores on every corner, but here in Nebraska we are a little behind in things. I can only think of 1 store that sells fancy cupcakes. (There may be more I don't know about) So I decided to get as creative and went crazy with cupcakes. These are all mini cupcakes. The toppings are chocolate, mint, orange, vanilla, and raspberry. They were all so good. I had so much fun making them! I am in the process of making a ton of them for a Relief Society Party. I will post pictures when I am done!