{"id":116,"date":"2012-04-09T13:26:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T04:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurelraab.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2012-04-09T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T04:26:20","slug":"laurens-super-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Lauren’s Super Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a long overdue post! I know several people have been patiently waiting for me to blog about the baby shower I threw for my sister, and with the craziness of coming back from vacation, starting a new job, spring cleaning and managing a headcold I’m back on top of things!<\/p>\n

On Sunday March 25th, my mother, best friend Kelsey and I threw my sister Lauren a superhero themed baby shower. We started the day with out best foot forward- getting manicures and pedicures for the big day!
\nLauren getting a pedicure
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Once we had beautified, we returned home to do some final decorating. Throughout the week my mom and I had been working on several tasks- making a diaper cake, a balloon wreath, ordering a cake, Superman coasters, signs and decorations. So all that was left on the big day was to hang everything up!<\/p>\n

The start of getting food ready!
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Dessert table!
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Even superheroes get thirsty!
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The foyer, which we decorated with a balloon wreath and baby pictures of the parents to be, Lauren and Paul!
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The diaper cake made of diapers and baby toys, was the centerpiece for our candy buffet. We had people pack a little to-go box of their favorite candies as a party favor!
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My lovely nieces Melissa and Vanessa
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Guests concentrating on a shower game!
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As a party souvenir for Lauren, we had a bib decorating station with white bibs and fabric markers. Melissa made one saying, “mommy loves me best!”
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My dear friend Sandra getting crafty at the bib making table
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Kelsey hosted a memory game which everyone got a kick out of!
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Trying to remember everything they see before it gets covered up!
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The party was a whirlwind of smiles, yummy eats and stories. I made sure to get pictures of Lauren with her guests, as well as a few of my own with my pals who attended!<\/p>\n

Me and my sister!
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My nieces and I
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One of my closest friends from college, Sandra
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At last it was gift time! We sat Lauren down and presented her with a playpen full to the brim with goodies!
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I took tons upon tons of pictures of her opening gifts, so here’s a sample of the fun. There was much ohhing, ahhing and laughing!
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Kelsey kept track of who gave what!
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My silly niece multitasking- playing gift bingo, eating pop rocks and being a photographer!
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We had a cutest bib contest for everyone who designed a bib! People can be so creative!
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Her cute cake, complete with a little baby Superman!
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Cutting the cake!
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As usual with most parties, gifts took quite a bit of time and once we were done, people stayed for some cake and slowly trickled out. But not without a visit to our candy buffet! The day was perfect. I had as much fun planning the party as I did being there! And now I can say next month, I will have a little nephew! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a long overdue post! I know several people have been patiently waiting for me to blog about the baby shower I threw for my sister, and with the craziness of coming back from vacation, starting a new job, spring cleaning and managing a headcold I’m back on top of things! On Sunday March […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,159,55,76,168,167,9],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-baby-shower","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-party","tag-superman","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}