Awaiting Baby Annie

On Saturday, February 3rd we celebrating the mom-to-be with a baby shower at Old Ranch.  Claudia Traver and I shared the hostessing responsibilities with lil' Miss Ryan and Charlie Grace.  Ryan and Charlie had many duties leading up to the shower of their soon-to-be born baby cousin, Annie.  They were in charge of decorating the tree branch centerpieces and making the placecards.  They made small talk with the guests, were in charge of the "game" and helped bring the gifts to Julie.   The weather was beautiful and besides some horrible freeway traffic that led up to the event, the day was great.

Our "twig and bird" centerpieces.  Claudia took care of getting the beautiful flowers to surround the tree branch.

 A closer look at the girls' handy work. 

 The mother-to-be and the hostesses.

 Oh Charlie, what will we do with you??

 We delayed the beginning of the shower to wait for the freeway traffic to lighten up so most of our guests could arrive.  The girls didn't have an issue... they ran out to the golf course to see their daddy, uncle Jeff, and buddies.

Look at the fabulous gifts that were starting to load up as our guests started to arrive!  Lucky Annie!

For the "game," Ryan and Charlie developed a questionnaire for Uncle Jeff and Aunt Julie.  They secretly asked Jeff the questions the week before and then asked Julie the same questions during the shower to see how similar their answers would be.  Julie enjoyed hearing how Jeff had answered and whether or not her answers were very different.  It was obvious that Jeff and Julie have had lots of baby talks in preparing for Annie's arrival because they were definitely on the same page. 

 Ryan stood on chair to make sure she had a captive audience...lol!

 Gift time!

 Uhhh... apparently some little people got bored with the gift opening (they weren't for them...haha!) so they ran out of the course again when daddy was in sight!

 They came back just in time to watch their own gifts being opened (Of course!)

The most important of any shower is always the guests... thank you to everyone for coming out to celebrate Jeff and Julie!

 Lindy, Ginny, Marzie, Casey, and Katie

 Dottie, Marcia, and Terry

 Liz, Terry, and Cathy

 Michelle and Dana

 Colleen and Claudia

Jill and Julie (and baby Annie)

 The whole group!

This last picture shows one of the tree branches that held the little bits of advice the group had for Julie and of course the birdie cookie favors.  We hope everyone had a great time and look forward to Baby Annie's arrival as much as we all are!

March can't come quick enough!!
xoxo