rainy baby shower.

Earlier this year I threw a baby shower for two of my great friends. The brief, "we're both inviting our friends so we don't want it to feel like a baby shower." So we planned a picnic in the park with footy and food, but of course that week there was torrential rain so they quickly found a bowling club and we had a fun, and relaxed, afternoon.

The day was interspersed with lots of rain and beautiful blue skies. The bowlers enjoyed the blue sky and we enjoyed watching them.

They agreed to have a baby shower feel to the party, so we had a "guess the gender" game which created a polaroid photo book, with a note to the baby. It is a beautiful keepsake for the baby and was fun seeing everyone with their lips or moustaches.

Mum and Dad in the front of the book

I provided some of the food, with lots of help from family, which included some delicious healthy cupcakes...

Orange with cacao nibs (gf, df, sugar free), chocolate with chocolate icing (gf, df, sugar free) and not-so-healthy but oh-so-delicious vanilla cupcakes with vanilla icing

And some healthy homemade dips... with cheese, veggie sticks, olives, nuts and dried fruit.

Homemade hummus, carrot dip and pumpkin dip (all gf, df, sugar free) and activated nuts... of course ;)

 And some delicious punch...

I even tried my hand at flower arranging...

And on the morning made some gender neutral bunting. Note to self: do not make 10 metres of bunting on the morning of an event you're organising. Thankfully I got it done!

It was a fun afternoon and a great celebration of their beautiful baby boy.
Kate and Dave, thanks for allowing me to have some fun and honour you guys. You're great parents... George is a lucky boy!